In the morning session, another member of Ireland’s gold medal quartet from Friday, Thomas Barr, continued his impressive championships by reaching the 400m hurdles semi-finals.
Barr, who won bronze in the hurdles event at the 2018 championships, was the fastest of the competitors in the first round as he won his heat in a season’s best of 49.31 seconds.
The Waterford man, 31, will now join the seeded athletes in Monday’s semi-finals.
Mark Smyth and Nicola Tuthill progressed from their opening qualifiers in Sunday morning’s session.
Raheny Shamrocks sprinter Smyth clocked a 200m season’s best of 20.93 seconds in the morning heats to progress to the semi-finals, where he improved that time of 20.86.
Tuthill, 20, was seventh of the 12 qualifiers for Monday’s hammer final after producing a best throw of 69.85m with her final effort.
North Belfast athlete Emily Haggard-Kearney finished 64th in the women’s half marathon in 1:17.04 – 30 places behind Shona Heaslip who clocked 1:12.19, while Hiko Tonosa took 43rd in the men’s event in 1:05.42.