Sifan Hassan

5 results

Ciara Mageean on her way to a 7th place finish in her 1,500m heat in Birmingham. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Ciara Mageean misses out on World Indoor final in Birmingham

Ciara Mageean kept saying Birmingham was just a sort of drive-by on route to the bigger championships later this season, although it probably didn’t h(...)

Ireland’s Keith Earls against Wales at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. You would expect there might just be some small report of the match in the Australian papers. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
Sonia O’Sullivan: Can rugby really call itself a global sport?

I was in my local cafe in Melbourne on Monday morning, scanning the papers for a report or even a result of the game. But nothing, not so much as a wo(...)

Ciara Mageean: will have learnt a lot from competing at the Rio Olympics. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Ciara Mageean facing a daunting challenge in London

The difficulty with true championship running is that nothing can replicate it except for true championship running. And no one is more aware of that (...)

Ireland’s Ciara Mageean celebrates after winning the bronze medal in the 1500m at the European Athletics Championship in Amsterdam. Photograph: Karel Delvoije/Inpho
Ireland’s Ciara Mageean wins bronze at European Championships

You know what they say about talent and the face of adversity, and Ciara Mageean is now smiling right back at it, a European Championship bronze medal(...)

Rose-Anne Galligan runs in the heats of the 1,500m at the World Indoor Athletic Championships in Portland, Oregon on Friday. Photograph: Adam Jastrzebowski/Inpho
Rose-Anne Galligan ready for solo run in Oregon

Not many people willingly left Cheltenham at the start of this week, especially those with any interest in horses, although Rose-Anne Galligan had a p(...)