Zurich next stop for medal hero Derval

DERVAL O’ROURKE will share the limelight with the stars of world athletics at the Golden League meet in Zurich next Friday night as she sets about reaping the financial rewards of the silver medal she won at the European championships in Gothenburg.

“I don’t know when I will get home to Cork,” she said last night. “After Zurich I have Brussels the following week.”

Life will be different for the European silver medallist after an exciting few days in Gothenburg. She has been on the circuit before but then, with slower times than most of her competitors, she found herself scrapping for outside lanes.