Ciara Mageean

Ciara Mageean
Mageean in 2022
Personal information
Born (1992-03-12) 12 March 1992 (age 32)
Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
CountryIreland
Northern Ireland
SportAthletics
EventMiddle-distance running
Coached byHelen Clitheroe (2022–)
Steve Vernon (2017–21)
Jerry Kiernan (–2017)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests

Ciara Mageean (/ˈkɪərə məˈɡən/ KEER-ə mə-GHEE-ən;[2] born 12 March 1992)[3] is a middle-distance runner from Portaferry in Northern Ireland who specialises in the 1500 metres. She is the 2024 European Athletics Championships gold medalist at the distance, the first individual Irish European champion since Sonia O'Sullivan.

She is a four-time European Athletics Championship medallist at the event, having also won bronze in 2016, silver in 2022 outdoors and bronze in 2019 indoors. Mageean also won silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She won three silver medals at World and European level in the U-18 and U-20 age groups. She represented Ireland at both the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She holds four Irish records and is a multiple national champion.

  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. ^ "Ciara Mageean after the 3,000m at the 2015 Millrose Games" – via www.youtube.com.
  3. ^ "Ciara MAGEEAN – Athlete profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.