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Sarah Lavin ran a season's best time but narrowly missed out on a medal after a fourth-place finish in the women's 60m hurdles final at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn.

The Limerick AC athlete came into Friday night's final in excellent form, initially impressing with a season's best 7.93 in Thursday's first-round heat on Dutch soil.

She served further notice of her medal intentions in Friday morning's semi-finals with a 7.94 to book her place among the eight qualifiers for the final.

Starting in lane six for the medal race, Lavin managed to go even better than Thursday's time as she ran a new season's best of 7.92.

But it wasn't enough to make it into the medal places as Ditaji Kambundji of Switzerland took gold in a championship record 7.67 ahead of Netherland's Nadine Visser (silver, 7.72) and Polish athlete Pia Skrzyszowska, who also ran a season's best 7.83 to take home bronze.

For Lavin, it was a day of mixed emotions having come so close to a medal.

"Fourth is fourth, who's happy with fourth," she said as she reacted to the race with RTÉ Sport's David Gillick.

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Lamenting the start to the race and the approach to the first hurdle, Lavin suggested that a near-perfect would have been required in a field of the continent's leading exponents over the distance.

"That's the bottom line. You can't physically do that because I'm competing with the best girls ever that had been in Europe," said Ireland's joint flagbearer for the Paris 2024 Olympics Opening