Ciara Mageean is the 2024 European 1500 metres champion, winning gold at the 2024 European Athletics Championships. She holds the Irish 1500 metres record of 3:55.87, and her mile best of 4:14.58 places her among the fastest women in history over the distance.
She competed in the 1500 metres at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, finishing 11th in her semi-final, and at Tokyo 2020, where she placed 10th in her heat. She travelled to Paris 2024 as part of Team Ireland, but an achilles injury prevented her from competing.
Mageean won World and European Junior silver medals in 2010 and 2011. At senior level she added European bronze in 2016, European indoor bronze in 2019 and European silver in 2022 before taking the European title. She is from Portaferry, County Down, and is a member of City of Lisburn AC.
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