{"id":65605,"date":"2025-09-15T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/65605\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:28:09","slug":"irelands-andrew-coscoran-qualifies-for-1500m-world-championship-final-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/65605\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Andrew Coscoran qualifies for 1500m World Championship final in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Coscoran of Ireland celebrates after finishing fifth in the men's 1500m semi-finals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ed598db7-0b55-4546-9dd8-daa701389de1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Andrew Coscoran of Ireland celebrates after finishing fifth in the men&#8217;s 1500m semi-finals<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Andrew Coscoran produced the performance of his life to power into the 1500m final at the World Championships in Tokyo on Monday evening, the Balbriggan man kicking to fifth place in his semi-final in 3:35.65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The race was won by Dutch star Niels Laros in 3:35.50, with Coscoran showing impressive speed on the dash to the finish to secure one of six automatic qualifying spots.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Coscoran of Ireland celebrates after finishing fifth in the men's 1500m semi-finals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ed598db7-0b55-4546-9dd8-daa701389de1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Andrew Coscoran of Ireland celebrates after finishing fifth in the men&#8217;s 1500m semi-finals<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Today&#8217;s News in 90 Seconds &#8211; Monday, September 15<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It&#8217;s the first time in Coscoran&#8217;s career that he&#8217;s reached a global outdoor final, having reached semi-finals in the past at both world and Olympic level. The final is scheduled for Wednesday night while he will also be in action in the 5000m later in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Earlier in the evening, Sarah Lavin came home fourth in her semi-final of the 100m hurdles, the Limerick hurdler clocking 12.86, which in the end was not enough to secure a place in the final as a non-automatic qualifier. Still, it was another solid showing from the experienced hurdler, who was ranked 28th in the world this year but finished 13th overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Coscoran of Ireland celebrates after finishing fifth in the men&#8217;s 1500m semi-finals Andrew Coscoran produced the performance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[4632,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-65605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cathal-dennehy","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}