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Double Commonwealth medallist Eilish McColgan delivered another strong final performance to land silver in Munich.
The Scottish 10,000m Record holder and Birmingham 2022 winner over 25 laps had to be content with second this time over the same distance at the European Champs.
But, with Turkish athlete Yasemin Can clear on her way to the gold, Eilish managed to shake off Israel’s Lonah Salpeter to drive clear and take second place in 30:41.05.
It was Eilish sixth major race in a matter of weeks and the 31-year-old still has plans to tackle the 5000m final later this week in Germany.
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Neil Gourley made it safely into the Men’s 1500m final with a strong finish to take fourth place in his heat – with the top four assured of progress.
Neil clocked 3:38. 07 to go through and he was to be joined by fellow Brits, Jake Heyward and Matthew Stonier in the non-automatic slots.
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Earlier in the evening programme in Munich, Kirsty Law wore the GB and NI vest in discus qualifying.
The Scot threw out to 54.83m this time, to improve on her Birmingham best, but that gave her 10th place and no progression to the 12-strong final.
‘I just couldn’t catch the throw today,’ said Kirsty.
‘I’m really disappointed but that seems to be how the season has gone. It just didn’t come together for me today. ‘
Luke Caldwell unfortunately was a DNF in the Men’s marathon in the warm conditions earlier in the day.
*There was good news around the Women’s 400m as Nicole Yeargin was one of those automatically given a bye to the semi-finals by European Athletics (based on SB performances, presumably).
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