Hession snatches final berth
Thursday July 29 2010
Ireland's Paul Hession scraped into the European Championship 200metres final as a fastest loser in Barcelona.
The 27-year-old, who had looked very comfortable in the first round, could only finish fourth in his semi-final in 20.67seconds.
But that still proved quick enough to see him through, and Hession said: "I felt good warming up, we had torrential rain which didn't help but it's the same for everybody so that's no excuse. If my last 50m was better then I would have been third, but it's fine, at least I qualified."
Hession, who has a best this season of 20.46secs, was handed lane two for the final on Friday evening.
"I ran an Irish record from lane two," he added.
Meanwhile, Ailis McSweeney failed to progress from her 100m semi-final.
