Zoey Clark helped Great Britain equal their best haul of 12 medals at the European Indoor Championships in Poland.
The Aberdonian teamed up with Jessie Knight, Jodie Williams and Ama Pipi to finish second in an eventful women’s race behind gold medallists the Netherlands.
Clark, who also won silver in the same event at the European Indoors in Glasgow in 2019, said: “Running the first leg in a relay you need to start strongly and I think I managed that.”
William said: “It’s been seven years since I last won a championship medal and now I have two from these championships!
“I love the 4×400.
“It cannot be compared to the individual events, they are completely different. You have to play your own part and the rest of the team depends on you.”
The men’s team of Joe Brier, Owen Smith, Lee Thompson and James Williams took bronze behind the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
A fantastic finish to the track events with a Silver medal in the women's 4 x 400m! 🥈
Congratulations to @_ZoeyClark @Jodiealicia27 Ama Pipi and @Jessie_Knight #Torun2021 pic.twitter.com/ePXW86HKOu
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) March 7, 2021
Keely Hodgkinson led from the front to claim 800 metres gold for Great Britain on the final day in Torun.
Four days after her 19th birthday, Hodgkinson held Polish pair Joanna Jozwik and Angelika Cichocka at bay to become Britain’s youngest European Indoors champion since 1970.
It capped a series of remarkably composed performances from Hodgkinson, making her debut in a major senior international Championships, who crossed the line in two minutes 03.88 seconds.
Fellow Britons Ellie Baker and Isabelle Boffey finished in fourth and sixth places respectively in the final.
Hodgkinson told the BBC: “You never understand the shock of when it actually happens – you picture it in your head so many times but when the reality comes through it’s very different.
“I didn’t want to think about the pressure because I’m only 19 and I’m still learning.
“I wanted to take the same relaxed state as I had through the heats and the semi-final, and it really paid off because I really believed in myself.”
Britain’s Jamie Webb took a bronze medal in the men’s 800m final.
Webb, a silver medallist at the 2019 Championships, led for much of the race
but was overhauled by Polish pair Patryk Dobek and Mateusz Borkowski, finishing in a time of 1min 46.95sec.
Andrew Pozzi had to settle for the silver medal in the men’s 60 metres hurdles final despite equalling his personal best of 7.43 seconds.
Pozzi was pipped by Wilhem Belocian of France by one hundredth of a second and admitted: “I started very well but I lost a couple of seconds in the middle – I’m a bit disappointed but I gave everything I could.
“I’m definitely in the best shape of my life but the timing wasn’t quite perfect. But they’re two incredibly fast times so you just accept it.”
Sisters Cindy Sember and Tiffany Porter claimed silver and bronze medals respectively in the women’s 60m hurdles.
The pair finished behind reigning champion Nadine Visser of the Netherlands,
who stormed to a clear victory in 7.77 seconds, with Sember crossing the line in 7.89sec and Porter three hundredths further back.
Britain’s men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams rounded off the Championships with bronze and silver medals respectively.