Sarah Healy's season best is 3:57.15 from Paris, one of four Diamond League top-three finishes. She aims to secure a fifth podium at the Zurich final and to move closer to Ciara Mageean's Irish record of 3:55.87. Cool weather and heavy rain are forecast for Zurich. Healy recently set an 800m lifetime best of 2:00.19 in London and has run three consecutive 3:57 races. She is the sixth quickest entrant this year and faces strong rivals including Jess Hull and Birke Haylom. Her World Championships objective is to make the 1500m final by finishing top six in her semi-final.
Right now, her best is the 3:57.15 she ran to finish runner-up in Paris last month, one of four top-three finishes she secured across the Diamond League season. But at the final in Zurich on Thursday, she would love to add a fifth and to edge closer to Ciara Mageean's Irish record of 3:55.87. Conditions are unlikely to comply, with cool weather and heavy rain forecast, but Healy comes into it after a lifetime best over 800m in London last weekend, clocking 2:00.19.
The 24-year-old goes into Thursday evening's 1500m as the sixth quickest in the field this year and while Kenyan superstar Faith Kipyegon is absent, there is a formidable cast of rivals including Olympic 1500m silver medallist Jess Hull of Australia and Ethiopia's Birke Haylom, a 3:53 performer at her peak. Healy's mission for next month's World Championships will be to make the final but to get there, she will need a top-six finish in her semi-final.
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