O’Rourke takes fifth for Europe

DERVAL O’ROURKE put the finishing touches to another successful season with an impressive if not spectacular performance at the IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup in Split yesterday when she finished fifth in the 100m hurdles in 12.99 secs.

The European silver medallist finished just behind the European champion, Nevin Yanit (Turkey), who was fourth in 12.84 secs. They were both representing Europe in what was formerly the World Cup.

With five of the current world top 10 performers in the field it was always going to be a close race and just three hundredths of a second eventually separated the top three.