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DERVAL O'ROURKE became the first Irishwoman to win a gold medal at the World Indoor Athletics Championships with a sensational victory in the 60 metres hurdle final at the Olympiski Stadium in Moscow yesterday.

The diminutive 24-year-old from Cork just held off Spain's Glory Alozie in a blanket finish to take the title and the $40,000 (€34,000) winner's prize.

"This is unbelievable," said the ecstatic Leevale runner, who broke the Irish record twice on her way to glory yesterday.

She lowered it to 7.87 seconds in the semi-final before setting a new mark of 7.84 in an incredibly tight final, in which the top three were separated by just 0.03 seconds.

Sonia O'Sullivan is the only other Irishwoman to ever win a medal at the championships, finishing second in the 3,000 metres in 1997.

"At first I couldn't believe it," said O'Rourke. "I haven't been beaten in a race this year, so at first that was how I was thinking. It took me a little while there to realise this was the Worlds! That I was world champion!"

Indoor championships are often seen as 'second-best' in the athletics world, but as O'Rourke stressed, "all the best girls were here, it wasn't like anyone skipped it which makes this even more fantastic."

The former UCD scholarship student, who now works part-time in DCU to facilitate her training, paid tribute to her coach Jim Kilty and also to former national champion Seán Cahill who have reconstructed her hurdling technique this winter and helped her to conquer the world.

She started the year with an Irish record of 8.02, but she ran 7.90 twice in recent weeks and then knocked a whopping three hundredths off it in the semi-finals before her dazzling gold medal run.

O'Rourke was the favourite going into the final - an amazing position for an Irish sprinter to be in at a major championships. She was installed in that lofty position after winning her semi-final, a race in which Jamaica's Michelle Freeman, the only one faster than her yesterday, had crashed out.

But she showed no signs of nerves in the final, despite a delayed start and maintained her technique and composure beautifully over the five hurdles, dipping just in time in a blanket finish to pip Alozie and Sweden's Susanna Kallur, who was the first to give her a congratulatory hug.

Earlier yesterday afternoon, James Nolan finished sixth in the 1,500m final, a placing that earned him $4,000 (€3,400) which is more than he's got from the Irish Government in the last two years after being one of those controversially dropped from the grant scheme last year.