Chloe and Sam Magee march on with at least a bronze

Chloe and Sam Magee guaranteed Ireland a bronze medal in badminton’s mixed doubles at the European games after pushing aside Poland’s Pawel Pietryja and Aneta Wojtkowska 21-18, 21-12 in just over 30 minutes.

The two Magee’s now face French pair Gaetan Mittelheisser and Audrey Fontaine in today’s semi-final — which gets under way provisionally at 8am Irish time — with the chance to upgrade their bronze to silver medals.

Men’s doubles pair Sam and Josh Magee were confirmed as bronze medallist, losing a tough semi-final 5-21, 9-21 to Russia’s Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov in 21 minutes.