Thomas Barr has become the first Irish athlete to reach a 400m hurdles semi-final since Bob Tisdall in 1932.
The Waterford hurdler smashed through the closing hurdles to surge up from fifth to second and claim an automatic place in tomorrow’s semi-finals.
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