Niall Treacy: British short track skater wins 1,000m silver at European Championships
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Niall Treacy (right) secured Britain's first European medal since Elise Christie won 1500m silver and 1,000m bronze in 2019
Great Britain's Niall Treacy won 1,000m silver at the European Short Track Championships in Poland.
Treacy led with two laps to go, but finished more than a tenth of a second behind Italy's Pietro Sighel on Sunday.
Belgium's Stijn Desmet took bronze, while Treacy's British team-mate Theo Collins came fifth in Gdansk.
"It's pretty incredible. This is my first senior international medal so to do that at a championship is really huge," Treacy, 23, said.
"To have us both in here is just massive for Great British short track. We haven't had the biggest representation at the European Championships since Elise [Christie] left. Hopefully Great British short track can keep going."
Sighel's win in the 1,000m was his third of the championships after victories in the 500m and 1500m races on Saturday.
"I tried my hardest, really. I led most of the race so it was pretty tough and Pietro is on fire right now, winning two gold medals yesterday, so he's got bags of confidence," Treacy said.
"It was unfortunate to let him go but I also had Stijn behind me and he's an incredible finisher in the distance, so I just wanted to hold my tight line and when I crossed the line it was fantastic."