{"id":594455,"date":"2026-08-15T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594455\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T22:16:08","slug":"coscoran-storms-to-bronze-medal-in-1500m-european-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594455\/","title":{"rendered":"Coscoran storms to bronze medal in 1500m European final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Andrew Coscoran has stormed to a bronze medal finish in 1500m European final on the penultimate day of action at the European Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner ran a brave race, finishing in a time of 3:36.24 to take home his first major outdoor medal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hard work eventually pays off,&#8221; he told RT\u00c9 Sport after the race. &#8220;You bide your time, you wait. I&#8217;m absolutely buzzing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all just clicked on the day. My preparation was really good. I have to thank my team of pacers over the last while. I&#8217;ve been going through a bit of a tough time with things and all the lads have been out on the bikes with me, pacing me and really helping me.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">&#8220;What a bronze medal for Andrew Coscoran!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Irish runner came from behind in the last 200m of the 1500m final to secure Ireland&#8217;s fourth medal of the week at the European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Watch live on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nDeZ1fa9MT\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nDeZ1fa9MT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2088722769357816301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a product of a lot of work over the years. A lot of strength work, a lot of speed work. It eventually paid off. That&#8217;s class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working so hard for this for so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was an enthralling contest all the way through with shocks aplenty, as Coscoran slipped back to seventh spot at one point in the final lap.<\/p>\n<p>However he found an extra gear to record a podium finish alongside Stefan Nillessen who took the gold and Samuel Pihlstrom who won silver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the time it can open up,&#8221; Coscoran said of his thoughts in the final 200m which saw him jump up the standings. &#8220;It&#8217;s a split second decision in the back straight whether to go up the inside or go around the outside and it opened up on the inside and I made a split second decision to go. It&#8217;s a risk. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t but today it did. I&#8217;m sitting here with a bronze medal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That makes it four memorable medals for Ireland, with more finals still to come.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Andrew Coscoran has stormed to a bronze medal finish in 1500m European final on the penultimate day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-594455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}