O'Sullivan qualifies comfortably for 5,000m final

Ireland's former 5000m world champion Sonia O'Sullivan comfortably qualified for Saturday's final in a season's best time of 14 minutes 55.50secs.

The 33-year-old mother-of-three was in the pack for much of the heat before grabbing second place in her heat behind Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse.

O’Sullivan claimed her gold in Gothenburg eight years ago when she became only the second Irish athlete to win a world title.

Women's 5000m:

Round 1:

Heat 1: 1 Edith Masai (Ken) 14:45.35, 2 Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) 14:45.96, 3 Yingjie Sun (Chn) 14:46.73, 4 Marta Dominguez (Spa) 14:48.33, 5 Zahra Ouaziz (Mar) 14:52.66, 6 Gulnara Samitova (Rus) 14:58.88, 7 Emilie Mondor (Can) 14:59.68, 8 Jane Wanjiku (Ken) 15:04.00, 9 Meseret Defar (Eth) 15:11.72, 10 Olga Yegorova (Rus) 15:12.41, 11 Kayoko Fukushi (Jpn) 15:16.53, 12 Souad At Salem (Alg) 15:34.64, 13 Catherine Chikwakwa (Maw) 15:40.10, 14 Simret Sultan (Eri) 16:09.48, 15 Ines Melchor (Per) 17:17.90, Lornah Kiplagat (Ned) DNS

Heat 2: 1 Elvan Abeylegesse (Tur) 14:54.95, 2 Sonia O’Sullivan (Irl) 14:55.50, 3 Berhane Adere (Eth) 14:56.01, 4 Isabella Ochichi (Ken) 14:56.63, 5 Yelena Zadorozhnaya (Rus) 14:56.70, 6 Gabriela Szabo (Rom) 14:56.70, 7 Zhor El Kamch (Mar) 15:00.61, 8 Courtney Babcock (Can) 15:01.48, 9 Irina Mikitenko (Ger) 15:06.97, 10 Restituta Joseph (Tan) 15:10.54, 11 Lauren Fleshman (Usa) 15:12.71, 12 Huina Xing (Chn) 15:13.50, 13 Hrisostomia Iakavou (Gre) 15:44.90, 14 Susanne Pumper (Aut) 15:53.52, 15 Docus Inzikuru (Uga) 16:00.99, 16 Lilian Claber Argereta (Hon) 20:17.90, Anesie Kwizera (Bdi) DNS