Ciara Mageean

Ciara Mageean (/ˈkɪərə məˈɡiːən/ KEER-ə muh-GEE-un[2]) (born 12 March 1992)[3] is a middle-distance runner from Portaferry in Northern Ireland who specialises in the 1500 metres. She is a three-time European Athletics Championship medallist at the event, with bronze in 2016 and silver in 2022 outdoors, and bronze in 2019 indoors. Mageean won also silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Ciara Mageean
Mageean in 2020
Personal information
Born (1992-03-12) 12 March 1992
Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryIreland
Northern Ireland
SportAthletics
Event(s)Middle-distance running
Coached byHelen Clitheroe (2022–)
Steve Vernon (2017–21)
Jerry Kiernan (–2017)
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Ireland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 Munich1500 m
Bronze medal – third place2016 Amsterdam1500 m
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place2019 Glasgow1500 m
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place2010 Moncton1500 m
European Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place2011 Tallinn1500 m
World Youth Championships
Silver medal – second place2009 Brixen800 m
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place2009 Tampere1500 m
Representing  Northern Ireland
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2022 Birmingham1500 m
Commonwealth Youth Games
Bronze medal – third place2008 Pune1500 m

She earned three silver medals at World and European level in the Under-18 and U20 age groups. Mageean represented Ireland at both the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She holds four Irish records and is a multiple national champion.

Career

Ciara Mageean won silver medals at the 2009 World Youth (800 metres) and 2010 World Junior (1500 metres) Championships. She added the 1500 m silver from the 2011 European Junior Championships. Her first senior international competition saw her finish 10th in the 1500 m at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, representing Northern Ireland.[3]

She didn’t run at all as an under 23 due to injury which ended up with surgery.[4]

She competed in the 1500 m event at the 2016 European Athletics Championships, winning the bronze medal.[5] Mageean became Irish indoor record holder for the 1,500 m and the mile that season. She qualified to represent Ireland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she reached the semi-finals.[6][3] Mageean was formerly coached by former Irish athlete and friend Jerry Kiernan. She credits Kiernan for her recovery after serious ankle injuries.[7]

In 2017, Mageean moved to Manchester to work with Team New Balance, initially coached by Steve Vernon.[8]

She placed fourth in the 1500 m at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.[9]

On 3 March 2019, she won the bronze medal in the event at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[10] At the World Championships held in Doha in October, she finished 10th in the final of her specialist event in a personal best time of 4:00.15.[3]

In Bern, Switzerland, on 24 July 2020, Mageean became the first Irish woman to run sub-two minutes for the 800 m, adding to her mile and 1500 m national records.[11] In August, she set an Irish record in the 1000 m at the Diamond League meet in Monaco, breaking by more than three seconds Sonia O'Sullivan's 27-year-old record and moving into the top 10 on the world all-time list.[12]

Mageean tore her calf before the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and was eliminated in the heats of the 1500 m event.[3][4]

She had a successful 2022 season in which she was coached by Helen Clitheroe with the Manchester-based New Balance team.[13] Mageean chose to skip World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July due to the Covid-19 contracted the previous month,[14] and focused on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games and European Championships Munich 2022 held in August. This strategy was successful as she won silver medal in the 1500 m at both competitions, in each case finishing second to her Scottish rival Laura Muir.[15][16] On 2 September, the 30-year-old earned her first Diamond League victory, winning her specialist event at the Brussels' Memorial Van Damme ahead of Muir. Mageean broke for the first time the 4-minute barrier and Sonia O'Sullivan's Irish national record set back in 1995 by more than two seconds. She achieved a big personal best of 3:56.63 as her previous fastest time was 4:00.15, set in the 2019 World Championships final in Qatar.[17] Six days later, she came second in a tactical race at the Zürich Diamond Race final, finishing only behind two-time Olympic and World champion Faith Kipyegon and beating a world-class field again.[18]

Personal life

Mageean was awarded a UCD Ad Astra Elite Athlete Scholarship and graduated from University College Dublin with a BSc in Physiotherapy in 2017.[19][11]

Her cousin Conor plays hurling for Portaferry and she watched him win the 2020 Down Senior Hurling Championship.[19]

Achievements

Personal bests

Circuit wins, and National championships
  • Diamond League
  • Irish Athletics Championships
    • 800 metres: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
    • 1500 metres: 2014, 2016, 2018
  • Irish Indoor Athletics Championships
    • 800 metres: 2016
    • 3000 metres: 2017, 2019

Competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResult
 Representing  Ireland /  Northern Ireland
2008 World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 10th 1500 m 4:26.87
Commonwealth Youth Games Pune, India 5th 800 m 2:08.74
3rd 1500 m 4:22.53
European Cross Country Championships Brussels, Belgium 17th XC 4.0 km U20 14:19
4th U20 team 77 pts
2009 World Youth Championships Brixen, Italy 2nd 800 m 2:03.07 PB
European Youth Olympic Festival Tampere, Finland 1st 1500 m 4:15.46
European Cross Country Championships Dublin, Ireland 9th XC 4.039 km U20 14:40
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 2nd 1500 m 4:09.51 NU20R
Commonwealth Games New Delhi, India 10th 1500 m 4:10.85
European Cross Country Championships Albufeira, Portugal 7th XC 3.97 km U20 13:16
2011 European Team Championships First League Izmir, Turkey 4th 1500 m 4:27.20
European Junior Championships Tallinn, Estonia 2nd 1500 m 4:16.82 SB
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 16th (sf) 1500 m 4:19.23
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 3rd 1500 m 4:33.78
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 17th (sf) 1500 m 4:08.07
European Cross Country Championships Chia, Italy 31st XC 7.97 km 26:55
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia – (f) 1500 m DNF
World Championships London, United Kingdom 34th (h) 1500 m 4:10.60
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 18th (h) 1500 m 4:11.81
Commonwealth Games Gold Coast, Australia 20th (h) 800 m 2:03.30
13th 1500 m 4:07.41
European Championships Berlin, Germany 4th 1500 m 4:04.63
European Cross Country Championships Tilburg, Netherlands 43rd XC 8.3 km 28:08
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 3rd 1500 m 4:09.43
World Championships Doha, Qatar 10th 1500 m 4:00.15 PB
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Tokyo 27th (h) 1500 m 4:07.29
European Cross Country Championships Dublin, Ireland 4th Mixed relay 18:06
2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 2nd 1500 m 4:04.14 SB
European Championships Munich, Germany 2nd 1500 m 4:02.56 SB

Recognition

References
  1. "Maggean Ciara". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrG2Hr6Svgs
  3. "Ciara MAGEEAN – Athlete profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. Crumley, Euan (19 November 2022). "Why Ciara Mageean is embracing the pain". AW. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  5. "Ciara Mageean claims Ireland's 14th all-time European Athletics Championships medal". Irish Examiner. 10 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  6. "Rio 2016: Four Northern Ireland athletes named on Ireland's Olympic team". BBC Sport. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  7. Ticket, The Season (25 March 2016). "'Finishing the race, I always want more' Ciara Mageean". Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  8. Duffy, Emma (11 November 2017). "Ciara Mageean parts ways with coach Jerry Kiernan to join UK team". The42. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  9. "European Championships 2018: Ciara Mageean cruises through to 1500m final". BBC. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  10. "Ciara Mageean wins bronze for Ireland in the European Indoor 1500m final". The 42. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  11. O'Riordan, Ian. "Ciara Mageean breaks Irish 800m record in Bern". The Irish Times.
  12. Whittington, Jessica (14 August 2020). "Laura Muir breaks British 1000m best on Diamond League return". AW. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  13. Duffy, Emma (25 August 2022). "'There's never a guarantee in life or in sport that you'll have a moment like that again'". The42. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  14. "Mageean in 'shape of my life' for Europeans". BBC Sport. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  15. "Ciara Mageean: Portaferry athlete secures silver medal in European 1500m final". BBC Sport. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  16. O'Riordan, Ian (19 August 2022). "Ciara Mageean strikes European silver after enthralling 1,500m final duel in Munich". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  17. Dennehy, Cathal (2 September 2022). "Ciara Mageean smashes Sonia O'Sullivan's Irish 1500m record with Diamond League victory in Brussels". Irish Independent. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  18. Dennehy, Cathal (9 September 2022). "Ciara Mageean shines in Diamond League to claim second". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  19. "Ciara Mageean celebrates as cousin Conor helps Portaferry win Down hurling title". BBC. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  20. "Ciara Mageean crowned athlete of the year". Irish Examiner. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
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