European swimming
Women’s 200m breaststroke final: Mona McSharry wins bronze medal, Ellie McCartney finishes eighth
Women’s 100m backstroke semi-finals: Grace Davison, Danielle Hill finish eighth, miss out on final
Men’s 200m butterfly semi-finals: Jack Cassin finishes eighth, misses out on final
Women’s 200m IM semi-finals: Ellen Walshe finishes third, makes final. Ellie McCartney finishes sixth, misses out
European athletics
Women’s heptathlon, shot put: Kate O’Connor (7.35pm)
Women’s 10,000m: Niamh Allen, Fiona Everard (7.45pm)
Women’s heptathlon, 200m: Kate O’Connor (9.02pm)
The Italian Nadia Battocletti wins comfortably. Fiona Everard finishes in 20th position in the 10,000m.
Fiona Everard around the top 20 with 2,000 metres to go in the 10,000m. Niamh Allen has stepped off the track sadly.
Izzy Fry had a bad fall in the 10,000 metres but she’s back up around 6,500 metres. A big pack, but Keith picks up the pace and the Irish are well back.
O’Connor avoids major disaster with a much improved throw of 13.96 in the shot put! Well short of her personal best, but with her last throw she gains many more points to stay in contention. Overall, Adrianna Sulek-Schubert leads the heptathlon on 2972 points. O’Connor on 2925. Weissenberg is on 2871 points.
The 10,000m final is on now too, with Ireland’s Niamh Allen and Fiona Everard taking part.
Kate O’Connor has fouled her second attempt in the shot put.
Kate O’Connor is in action in the shot put, and throws well under 14 metres, 13.46m, she’ll want to improve with a personal best of 14.70m.
Another big cheer as Rhasidat Adeleke picks up her silver medal, and another round of Ole, Oles.
Turning to athletics and a medal ceremony, Mark English is being given his medal by Sebastian Coe as Ole, Ole, Ole goes on in the crowd in Birmingham. Now Amhrán na bhFiann.
Ellen Walshe makes the 200m Individual Medley final
Confident swim, with some good turns and safely in the final as she looks to make it a medley double gold. She swims 2:11.26 to finish third, Amalie Smith wins in 2:11.12. McCartney misses out after finishing sixth.
Ireland’s Ellen Walshe competes in a semi-final of the women’s 200m individual medley. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty
Ellen Walshe and Ellie McCartney are competing in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley semi-final.
After 100m, Walsh is in second place behind Vanotterdijk, with McCartney in sixth.
Jack Cassin finishes eighth in the men’s 200m butterfly semi-final. A tough task with some big hitters like the home star Leon Marchand and Hubert Kos. Cassin swims 1:57.66.
Mona McSharry on RTÉ: “I was fighting my demons on that one. I think I was holding on for dear life at the end, but I was catching someone so it was good.
“It was definitely tough. I was experiencing, not quite hyperventilation but I couldn’t relax myself and subconsciously I was nervous for it. You have to push through those things. I did some mental breathing to calm myself and to do the process that works.”
Mona presented with her medal now.
Mona McSharry of Ireland. Photograph: Andrea Masini/Inpho
Grace Davison and Danielle Hill both finish last in their 100m backstroke semi-finals, well off the pace.
Hill swims 1:01.67 in a semi-final won by Mary-Ambre Moluh in 58.21.
Hard-fought medal there for McSharry, who was only third in the last few metres after being behind for most of the race. That’s a silver and bronze from this championship.
Mona McSharry wins the bronze medal at the 200m breaststroke
McSharry is 0.3 seconds off a medal with 50 metres to go. Schouten and Chikunova staying strong. Evans fading badly. She manages to sneak a bronze medal over Schouten.
Chikunova wins it with 2:19.32, a Championship record. 2:21.21 for Evans in silver. 2:22.43 for McSharry in bronze, beating Schouten by 0.23 seconds.
Ellie McCartney finished eighth in 2:26.93, but a good experience to get to the final.
We’re off. After 50 metres, Evans leads with McSharry in fourth, McCartney in eighth.
Evans is better than world record pace in the lead, as McSharry is still fourth through 100m.
Popovici wins the 200m freestyle again, as McSharry and McCartney come out for the 200m breaststroke. Best of luck to them.
McSharry and McCartney coming up in about 10 minutes, here is the start list.
Ellie McCartneyAnna ElendtTes SchoutenEvgeniia ChikunovaAngharad EvansMona McSharryKotryna TeterevkovaAlina Zmushka
Roos Vanotterdijk has won gold at the 100m butterfly, while the men’s 200m freestyle will be up before the 200m women’s breaststroke.
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the European swimming and athletics championships. The last two days were very memorable, on Wednesday it was swimming’s day with Ellen Walshe winning a gold medal and Mona McSharry a silver. Yesterday, it was athletics’ turn with Mark English winning gold and Rhasidat Adeleke winning silver.
Tonight, the best chance will come from McSharry again in the 200m breaststroke final. Ellie McCartney will also take part and will give it her best shot. In athletics, Kate O’Connor continues her quest for a European gold medal to add to her collection.
European swimming
Women’s 200m breaststroke final: Ellie McCartney, Mona McSharry (5.43pm)
Women’s 100m backstroke semi-finals: Grace Davison, Danielle Hill (5.50pm)
Men’s 200m butterfly semi-finals: Jack Cassin (6.25pm)
Women’s 200m IM semi-finals: Ellen Walshe, Ellie McCartney (6.35pm)
European athletics
Women’s heptathlon, shot put: Kate O’Connor (7.35pm)
Women’s 10,000m: Niamh Allen, Fiona Everard (7.45pm)
Women’s heptathlon, 200m: Kate O’Connor (9.02pm)