Amy Hunt is one win away from an unprecedented European quadruple after the British 4x100m women’s relay team won gold in style on a night of back-to-back triumphs for the hosts.
Dina Asher-Smith also became the joint most-decorated athlete in European Athletics Championships history in the same race, won by the British quartet of Asher-Smith, Hunt, Success Eduan and Imani-Lara Lansiquot in 42.05 seconds.
It takes Asher-Smith’s total to 10 medals, joining Polish sprinter Irena Szewinska, though the former has two more golds with seven.
The Britons, whose race got off to a slightly delayed start after a win in the equivalent men’s race, also had to wait for a review to confirm their triumph.
Switzerland took silver in 43.12s and bronze went to Poland in 43.15 seconds.
Hunt, who completed an individual sprint double earlier in the week, is targeting a first four gold medals for a British athlete at a single European championship, made possible by the introduction of a mixed 4x100m relay this year.
If Asher-Smith also decides to compete, she could also go outright top of the all-time list with a British medal.
British record-holder Asher-Smith got the hosts started with an opening leg of 11.37s, fastest of the first 100m, before handing the baton to Hunt, who was the fastest of the British quartet with a 10.10s second leg.
open image in galleryEduan ran the third leg in 10.43s and there was a bit of awkwardness with the handover, before Lansiquot blitzed to the finish in 10.15s.
Moments before, Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Zharnel Hughes and Romell Glave stormed to gold in 38.45s.
Azu, who claimed individual 100m silver on Tuesday in a British one-two with Glave, ran a 10.51s opener, while Hinchliffe, Hughes and Glave all dipped below 10 seconds in 9.22s, 9.57s and 9.15s respectively.
Germany claimed silver 0.19s behind, and Belgium took bronze in 38.70s.
Jake Heyward missed out on a medal by 0.16 seconds as the British trio of men’s 1500m finalists were shut out of the podium, but Ireland’s Andrew Coscoran collected bronze in a race won by the Netherlands’ Stefan Nillessen in 3:35.70.
Heyward was fourth in 3:36.40, Arlo Ludewick fifth, and Jake Wightman sixth after Wightman and Heyward, who had been leading, ran out of steam with 100m to go and Nillessen produced a brilliant kick.
open image in galleryIt was the second Irish medal of the penultimate evening session after Kate O’Connor won heptathlon gold with a national record 6,751 points.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished 21st of as many finishers and Jade O’Dowda was 13th.Johnson-Thompson was forced to pull out of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow to focus on returning to full fitness after picking up an injury earlier in the year.
There was a blow for Great Britain after Amber Anning, the 2025 world indoor 400m champion, was forced to withdraw from the women’s 400m final after picking up an injury in the warm-up.
Her replacement, Charlotte Henrich, finished a very respectable sixth, just behind compatriot Yemi Mary John.