Less room for error as Ciara Mageean and Rhasidat Adeleke eye medals in Budapest

Starting with the women around lunchtime, with the men under way later on Saturday evening, there will be four 1,500m heats, only the top six in each progressing to Sunday’s two semi-finals . It’s similar for all middle-distance events longer than 800m , eliminating the perceived advantage or otherwise of knowing a finishing time, not position, might be enough to progress.

“That’s everyone’s ultimate goal, I suppose, but for me I’m just going out there ready to go to battle,” Mageean said of her medal ambitions, having claimed silver in her last two finals, the Commonwealth Games and European Championships last summer. For Coscoran, whose brilliant 3:30.42 ranks him 12th best this season, there will be nothing easy in his heat, which includes two sub-3:30 men in Abel Kipsang from Kenya and Yared Nuguse from the US. Nick Griggs, still only 18, will have Jakob Ingebrigtsen alongside him in heat one, while Luke McCann goes in heat two, with nine men faster this season. Every position will unquestionably count.

Earlier this summer Rhasidat Adeleke confirmed she will forgo her final year of eligibility at the University of Texas in Austin to take up a professional running contract in advance of next year’s Paris Olympics. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

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