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Robert Hynes

What time and TV channel is Phil Healy's Olympic 400m heat on?

Phil Healy is back in action in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The Cork woman competes in the 400m heats as she aims to qualify for Wednesday's semi-finals.

Healy runs in heat 5, which is scheduled to start at 2.17am Irish time. The race will be shown live on RTE Two.

The 26-year-old produced a season's best run in the 200m heats on Monday, but it wasn't enough to qualify for the semi-finals.

Speaking after the race, Healy said: “It's disappointing initially but I went out there and gave it my all, and it is a season's best.

"I knew I was coming in in PB shape, but obviously there is going to be that fatigue factor with the two relay rounds before this.

"Obviously I would have loved to run quicker, but look, coming in I had to sacrifice my own individual (event) to a certain extent for the relay.

"But if you asked me a couple of weeks ago if I wanted to be an Olympic finalist, of course I would have taken that over anything.

"When you turn to the individual of course you want to progress, and it was a season best, after two all-out 400 metres in a matter of days beforehand, before coming out here at the crack of dawn in the morning.

“I’m the first Irish person to qualify in three events, so I am going to go out tomorrow and give it my all, anything can happen it’s a new day."

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