Watch: Ireland's Ciara Mageean bravely crawls over finish line following gruelling race

An exhausted Ciara Mageean at the finishing line after the women’s senior race. Photo: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

Irish athlete Ciara Mageean literally crawled over the finish line in the European Cross Country Championships in Sardinia on Sunday.

Mageean fell to the ground a few yards from the finishing line in the searing Italian heat before somehow finding the energy to drag herself over the line.