Sara Treacy at the Euro Championships this week

Top 10 finish for Sara Treacy

Meath athlete Sara Treacy and two other Irish women Kerry O’Flaherty and Michelle Finn competed in the European Athletics Championships 3,000-metre steeplechase final in Amsterdam this evening where the Meath woman achieved a top 10 finish.

All three runners produced season's best performances to ensure their qualification.

In qualifying earlier this week Finn (Leevale) ran fourth in 9:45.93 to qualify for the final automatically and took seventh in today's race in 9:43.19.

Treacy finished fifth in in qualifying in 9:42.16 to take an automatic spot and took ninth today in a time of 9:45.19.

The Dunboyne AC athlete smashed her old personal best by a whopping 1.98 seconds in qualifying, but was unable to repeat that time today.

O'Flaherty (Newcastle) finished qualifying in 9:45.53 to make it as a fastest runner-up and was 12th today in 9:45.88.


The racew as won by Gesa-Felicitas Krause from Germany in 9:18.85.

RESULTS
1, Gesa-Felicitas Krause Germany 9:18.85
2, Luiza Gega Albania 9:28.52
3, Ozlem Kaya Turkey 9:35.05
4, Mariya Shatalova Ukraine 9:38.17
5, Fabienne Schlumpf Switzerland 9:40.01
6,Nastassia Puzakova Belarus 9:42.91
7, Michelle Finn Ireland 9:43.19
8,Diana Martín Spain 9:43.65
9, Sara Treacy Ireland 9:45.19
10, Sandra Eriksson Finland 9:45.71
11,Ingeborg Lovnes Norway 9:45.75
12, Kerry O'Flaherty Ireland 9:45.88
13, Meryem Akda Turkey 9:55.42
14, Matylda Kowal, Poland 9:57.27
DQ, Maya Rehberg Germany