Cathal Doyle appeal fails after fall in 1500m semi-final

Coscoran and O'Connor keep Ireland moving as Cathal Doyle exits

Only the top six in each semi-final went through.

Doyle got back up and finished last of the 15-man field in 4:36.28 so an appeal could be lodged, adamant he had been clipped from behind, but the jury did not agree.

It is the second successive European championships to end this way for the 28-year-old Dubliner, who also fell at last year’s European Indoors in Apeldoorn, where his appeal also failed.

"I’m sick of this now, that’s the second European in a row. I didn’t deserve that at all.

"There’s nothing I can do. I’m sick of everyone saying, ‘oh, he put himself in the wrong position.’ I didn’t do anything wrong," said Cathal Doyle, speaking to RTÉ’s David Gillick.

Andrew Coscoran made no such mistake, timing a late surge to take fourth in the second semi-final in 3:41.86 and reach the 1500m final. The 30-year-old is still chasing a first European medal.

Kate O’Connor, meanwhile, opened her heptathlon with a personal best of 13.30 in the 100m hurdles before equalling her high jump best of 1.86m for 1,054 points, moving her second overall, The 42 reported.

O’Connor, who won Commonwealth heptathlon gold last month, faces the shot put and 200m on Friday evening, with the long jump, javelin and 800m to come on Saturday.

See how the rest of Ireland’s European Athletics Championships team are shaping up.