Cian McPhillips of Ireland with his parents Laura and Paddy and sister Sarah and his Men's 1500m gold medal at Dublin Airport as Team Ireland return home from the European U20 Athletics Championships.
Search
20 Sept 2025
Search
20 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
There was utter heartbreak for Longford's Cian McPhillips in the men’s 800m at the World Championships in Tokyo on Saturday, as he finished fourth despite storming to a national record of 1:42.15.
Also read: Longford's Cian McPhillips finishes like train but medal agonisingly eludes him
The 23-year-old UCD student won his heat and semi-final and he missed out by 0.2 of a second on a world medal, being pipped by three Olympic medallists, with 2024 champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi setting a championship record of 1:41.86, edging Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati (1:41.90) and Canada’s Marco Arop (1:41.95).
On the way to winning his semi-final, Cian ran a stunning Irish record time of 1:43.18 so to shave another second off that in the final was nothing short of phenomenal and the Ardagh star certainly has a very exciting future ahead.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
