Having led with a lap to go, English didn’t have enough over the last 200m to secure one of the top-two qualifying spots for Sunday’s final, with victory going to Australia’s Peter Bol in 1:46.21 ahead of Japan’s Allon Tatsunami Clay (1:46.47) and Jamaica’s Navasky Anderson (1:46.65).
The Irish team management lodged an appeal after the race, looking for English to be advanced to the final due to an incident involving him and Tatsunami Clay on the second lap, but the Jury of Appeal rejected it.
English had previously reached a world final at underage level, finishing fifth at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, but the equivalent achievement has long eluded him at senior level.
He finished an agonising…