Darragh McElhinney and Sarah Healy were among the medals on a successful day for Team Ireland at the U20 European Championships in Sweden.
McElhinney became only the third Irishman ever to win a 5,000m medal at the grade when he took bronze in a time of 14.06.05, while Sarah Healy took silver in the women's 1500m with a run of 4:27:14.
Last year's double European U18 champion Healy was denied gold on the home-straight by Swiss athlete Delia Sclabas, and fended off the challenge of Turkey’s Tugba Topta in third.
It brings Team Ireland’s medal haul to three after Kate O'Connor's silver secured Ireland’s first medal in the heptathlon at any level on Friday.
McElhinney follows in the footsteps of John Treacy (silver in 1975) and Mark Carroll (gold in 1991) with a superb performance in Sweden.
The Cork teenager hit the front with just over two laps to go, but was overtaken at the bell by the Spaniard Aaron Las Heras who won in a time of 14:02.76. On the back straight he was edged out Turkey's Ayetullah Aslanhan for silver.
McElhinney was unable to match his national record set in May when he became the first Irish teenager to break the 14-minute barrier with a time of 13:54.10 and entered the Championships as the fastest U-20 in Europe.
"I probably just got a bit excited with a kilometre to go when I was very controlled during the race. When I hit the front with a kilometre to go, I felt okay," he said.
"With Aaron overtook me at the bell, I said this is my chance to sit in behind and just follow him, but I just didn't have the legs for it today.
The Glengarriff teenager couldn't mask his disappointment with his target set on a loftier finish.
"Initially I was disappointed because I came here looking for gold. It's a bit of an anti-climax because at the start of the season I wrote down goals and I wanted a European medal.
"I've achieved that, but the way the season panned out, and the form I have been in for the past few months, my aim was to win gold."
