FortunebetsRashidat Adeleke has become the first Irish female sprinter to reach an Olympic final after she qualified for the 400m final in Paris.
The Dubliner finished with a time of 49.95 just behind Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser who finished first.
Eid Naser is a former world champion who has since served a doping ban.
She will run in Friday’s final and will be hoping she can get in amongst the medals after a strong showing so far.
The final is scheduled to take place on 7pm on Friday evening.
American Quincy Hall dug deep in the final metres to overhaul Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith and take the Olympic 400 metres gold in another race of scintillating quality on Wednesday.
Hudson-Smith seemed on course to win his country’s first gold over the distance since “Chariots of Fire” Eric Liddell in the Paris Games 100 years ago, but he tied up at the end and Hall swept past to win in a personal best 43.40 seconds and give the U.S. their first triumph since LaShawn Merritt in 2008.
Hudson-Smith bettered his own European record with 43.44 for silver and Zambia’s 21-year-old Muzala Samukonga set his second successive national record with 43.74 to take bronze.
The first five men home were all under 44 seconds.