Euro Indoors Preview: Ireland have a slew of genuine medal contenders in their ranks

With four European medals to his name – two indoors, two outdoors – Mark English has the class and racing guile needed to get it done at this level.

MEDAL HOPE: Ireland’s Mark English during the race. Pic: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy.

The Irish might have come home empty-handed from three of the last four editions of the European Indoor Championships, but it will be a shock if they fail to hit the medal heights this weekend in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

There may be no Rhasidat Adeleke or Ciara Mageean, but it says much about the rising tide in the sport that there is still a slew of genuine medal contenders in their ranks. One who’s been there, and done that, several times before: Mark English.