GB Athletics concludes Birmingham Championships with historic relay gold and 19-medal tally
Great Britain finished second in the final medal table behind Italy, with Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt leading a record-breaking performance at the European Athletics Championships.
Great Britain concluded its first home European Athletics Championships in Birmingham with 19 medals, finishing second in the final table behind Italy. The team’s campaign was defined by historic individual achievements and dominant relay performances, culminating in a mixed 4x100m relay gold that set a new European record of 39.97 seconds.
Amy Hunt and Dina Asher-Smith were central to the relay victory, which also featured Jeremiah Azu and Zharnel Hughes. Hunt secured her fourth gold of the championships, having previously won the 100m, 200m, and women’s 4x100m titles. Asher-Smith claimed her seventh gold, equalling the record for the most gold medals won by an athlete in the competition’s 92-year history, while Hughes matched Matthew Hudson-Smith, Mo Farah, and Roger Black as the most successful British male athletes in the event’s history with his fifth gold.
In the women’s 1500m final, Georgia Hunter Bell controlled the race to win gold, finishing more than one second ahead of Poland’s Klaudia Kazimierska with a time of 4:07.78. The victory marked Hunter Bell’s seventh international medal in two years and extended her successful run in 2026, following world indoor and Commonwealth titles.
Great Britain’s medal haul was bolstered by silver medals in several other events. Matthew Hudson-Smith won silver in the men’s 4x400m relay, becoming the most decorated man in championship history with nine medals. The British men’s team finished 0.03 seconds behind Italy, who secured the final gold of the championships. In the women’s 4x400m relay, the British quartet of Yemi Mary John, Lina Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin, and Emily Newnham took silver, finishing 0.58 seconds behind the Dutch team.
Long jumper Jazmin Sawyers also contributed to the medal tally, winning silver with a career-best leap of 6.99 metres, finishing one centimetre behind Italy’s Larissa Iapichino. The British team’s final day saw them win five medals in 76 minutes, bringing their overall count to 19 as they closed out the championships.
