Tributes have been pouring in for European champion and Olympian Ciara Mageean, who passed away on Sunday aged 34.

On the track, she represented Ireland and Northern Ireland with great distinction and she became European 1500m champion in 2024.

Mageean was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in May 2025, but continued to be a shining light with her courage.

From her grit and determination to her medal moments, BBC Sport looks back at Mageean's career in pictures.

An energetic child who loved to play camogie as well as to run, Mageean had a decorated junior athletics career.

She was third for Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Youth Games in India in 2008, and the following year she won the European Youth Olympic Festival in Finland and was second at the World Youth Championships for Ireland.

Mageean announced herself to senior athletics at the Odyssey Arena by winning the National Senior Indoor title when she was just 15.

In 2010, Mageean was second at the World Junior Championships in Mocton in Canada and she had another breakthrough moment the following year, when she claimed a silver medal at the European Junior Championships in Tallinn.

Mageean missed out on the chance to race at the London Olympics in 2012 through injury, and had surgery on her ankle the following year.

The Portaferry runner bounced back to win the Irish 1500m title in 2014 and things were even better at the European Championships in 2016, when she won a 1500m bronze medal in Amsterdam.

After the highs of a European medal, the Olympics in Rio proved to be disappointing for Mageean after she missed out on a place in the 1500m final.

The following year, she split with long-time coach Jerry Kiernan to work with Steve Vernon in Manchester.

As well as on the track, Mageean often represented Ireland at cross-country level.

Here, her all-or-nothing approach was on show was she emptied the tank at the 2016 European Championships in Italy.

Before Mageean's arrival on the athletics scene, the majority of Ireland's middle-distance record were held by Olympic medallist Sonia O'Sullivan.

Now, she is the Irish record holder in the 800m, 1,000m, both the indoor and outdoor 1500m and the mile.

Mageean finished fourth at the European Championships in 2018, but she went one better the following year at the European Indoors in Glasgow, when she finished in third place behind Laura Muir and Sogia Ennaoui.

There was more disappointment for Mageean at the delayed Tokyo Olympics, which took place in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

She injured her calf in the build-up to the Games, and failed to qualify from her heat.

Now coached by Helen Clitheroe, Mageean was back on the podium at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

She finished second behind Muir, who won gold for Scotland, in what was a long-running rivalry that year.

In a successful year, Mageean collected her second European medal in Munich.

Muir again won gold, but Mageean won a silver medal to add to her bronze from 2016.

In another battle with Muir, Mageean came out on top in the 1500m at the Diamond League event in Brussels in 2022.

Not only did she win the race, but her time of 3:56.63 took 3.6 seconds off Sonia O'Sullivan's Irish 1500m record with represented her first sub-four minute run.

So near, yet so far.

A World Championship medal evaded Mageean in her career, but she did finish fourth in the 2023 final in Budapest as Kenya's Faith Kipyegon won gold.

After her bronze in 2016 and silver six years later, Mageean completed the set of European Championship medals when she won a dramatic gold in 2024.

She was boxed in on the final lap behind GB's Georgia Bell and Jemma Reekie, but burst through a gap to win in a time of 4:04.66.

The elation on her face as she crossed the line said everything as she picked up the biggest win of her career.

After she missed the 2024 Paris Olympics through injury, Mageean was diagnosed with stage four cancer the following year.

But just like in her running career, she showed remarkable courage in the face of adversity.

Here, she is presented to the crowd at half-time of the All-Ireland Hurling Final at Croke Park in July.

No matter what she achieved on track, Mageean's connection with her fans and the next generation of runners always shone through.

At the Irish National Championships in July, 400 young athletes from clubs around Ireland joined Mageean in a 'Run with Ciara' celebration in Dublin.

Her smile and enthusiasm will leave a lasting memory.