Mark English wins bronze in European 800m final

Wightman got past English only not Garcia, the World Indoor champion taking the win in a best of 1:44.85,. Wightman won silver in 1:44.91, and then came English always safe in third, his time of 1:45.19 plenty good to hold off Andreas Krammer, the Swedish runner who won silver four years ago in Berlin.

English also has two European Indoor bronze medals to his name at the distance, from Prague in 2015 and Glasgow in 2019, and now joins Sonia O’Sullivan and Derval O’Rourke and Ciara Mageean in that club of multiple Irish medal winners at European Championship level. A second Irish medal on the track in Munich too, this one like Mageean won with nothing less than an all out best effort.

Running with super control without, his eyes like chips of ice as he kept watch on those around him, English never let himself out of a medal position, and got his just reward, eight years after he stepped on the same medal podium, and at age 29 with the promise of still more to come.

Brilliant achievement

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