He felt he hadn’t done enough to qualify, but Brian Gregan is still through to the semi-finals of the 400m at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

PAUL HESSION made this evening’s final of the men’s 200m among the fastest losers after a nail-biting wait at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona last night, where Ailis McSweeney failed by a mere 100th of a second to make the final of the women’s 100m.