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Eilidh Child hits hot form at European Indoor Championships

Relay gold medallists Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Christine Ohuruogu and Perri Shakes-Drayton.
Relay gold medallists Eilidh Child, Shana Cox, Christine Ohuruogu and Perri Shakes-Drayton.

Eilidh Child (Pitreavie) struck gold, silver, a UK record and a Scottish record as GB celebrated at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg.

Child became the first Scottish individual medallist at the European Indoors for 26 years, with silver in the individual 400m before helping the GB quartet to gold in the 4x400m relay.

In the individual 400m Child manoeuvred her way through a tricky semi-final in 52.29 seconds, and was promoted to first place following the disqualification of Angela Morosanu.

The Romanian’s disqualification allowed Shana Cox to move up to third (52.86), securing her place in the final.

Perri Shakes-Drayton won her semi in 51.03s.

Expectations were high as all three GB finalists lined up, with Shakes-Drayton forcing the pace from the start, chased by Child.

The two athletes held their form over the final 200m, with Shakes-Drayton taking gold in 50.85s, while Child took silver in 51.45.

Cox came home in sixth (53.15).

Child said: “It was a personal best and I‘m delighted with that, especially after back-to-back races. When you come here ranked third in Europe you want to go out and get a medal.”

In the penultimate track event, Child had the task of leading out the 4x400m team and held her form to give second leg runner Cox the lead at the first changeover.

Cox held first place ahead of the Czech team before former Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu kept pole position.

Shakes-Drayton ran a commanding anchor leg pulling away from Nadezhda Kotlyarova to secure the gold in a UK record of 3:27.56.

The GB men’s 4x400m team finished in 3:05.78, well clear of silver medallists Russia (3:06.96) with Poland third (3:07.53).

Mukhtar Mohammed survived bumping and barging in the 800m final to take bronze.

Defending champion Adam Kszczot (Poland) sprinted away for gold over the final lap clocking 1:48.69.

The rush for medals behind the Pole saw Spain’s Kevin Lopez finish strongly for silver (1:49.31) while Mohammed finished in 1:49.60.

Silver followed in the men’s 400m where favourite Pavel Maslak (Czech Republic) dominated the race.

Rounding the final bend Pavel Trenikhin cut across UK champion Nigel Levine which proved to be the Russian’s undoing as he stumbled across the inside lane allowing Levine to take silver medal in 46.21.

Michael Bingham came home in fifth (46.81) with Richard Strachan sixth (47.02).

Pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale won GB’s first gold medal of the weekend following a cliff hanging jump off against Poland’s Anna Rogowska.

With both athletes tied at three failures at a height of 4.72m the bar was lowered to 4.67m, which the Pole failed to clear.

Silver followed in the men’s 60m final where James Dasaolu featured in a photo-finish with France’s Jimmy Vicaut in 6.48 seconds.

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey also made the final placing seventh in a season’s best 6.63 seconds.

Asha Philip improved every round of the women’s 60m to finish sixth, equalling her personal best of 7.15s.

Laura Muir’s efforts in making the 1,500m final saw the 19-year-old Milnathort athlete place eighth following her personal best in the heats 24 hours earlier.

It was a strange final that evolved with the field content to let the race favourite, Sweden’s Abeba Arigawa, forged into a 50m lead. With the race for first place already over it was Muir who made the first attempt to up the pace, the group of seven tightly bunched making no effort to close down the runaway Arigawa.

Muir pushed on alongside Russia’s Soboleva before Katazyna Broniatowska (Poland) surged with the ring of the final lap bell.

Arigawa strode to victory in 4:04.47, while 10 seconds back the sprint finish for silver was won by Isabel Macias (Spain) who finished a stride ahead of Broniatowska in third. Muir was timed at 4:18.39.

There was disappointment for team captain Jenny Meadows in the 800m final.

Three races in three days took their toll as Meadows finished fourth in 2:01.52 minutes.

Meadows led after three laps but faded badly and was overtaken in the final 200m as Ukraine’s Nataliya Lupu won the gold medal in 2:00.26.

In the women’s 3,000m final Leigh Harrier Lauren Howarth settled in at the back of the field over the opening laps before progressing through the field of 12 runners.

With 400m remaining Sara Moreira (Portugal) surged away, stringing out the leading pack. Moreira’s bid deservedly won gold in 8:58.50s.

European cross-country champion Fionnuala Britton (Ireland) raised a sprint finish to take bronze, with Howarth coming home sixth in 9:04.04.

Renaud Lavillenie (France) soared to a winning world leap of 6.01m in the men’s pole vault before going over 6.07m only for the bar to jump off the peg on to the upright.

Steve Lewis had to be content with sixth with a height of 5.71m.

Chris Tomlinson could only place seventh in the men’s long jump (7.95m) as Aleksandr Menkov (Russia) sailed out to a world lead 8.31m.

Shara Proctor was third for the majority of the women’s long jump following a jump of 6.68m in the first round, which she then improved to 6.69m.

However, Sweden’s Erica Jarder’s final round jump of 6.71m saw Proctor miss out on a bronze medal by 2cm.

In the men’s high jump, Robbie Grabarz also missed out on a medal as he failed to clear 2.27m settling for a best height of 2.23m in sixth.

UK women’s triple jump champion Yamele Aldama had to be satisfied with a season’s best of 13.95m finishing sixth.