Amy Hunt became the first athlete to win four gold medals at a single European championships as Swedish superstar Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis took home the gold in the men’s pole vault.<\/p>\n
The British quartet of Jeremiah Azu, Dina Asher-Smith, Zharnel Hughes and Hunt crossed the finish in a European record 39.97 seconds to beat silver medallists Germany, who finished in 40.11s, and third placed Spain.<\/p>\n
The Britons had to wait for a long review to confirm they had become the first European champions of the event, which in and of itself was a learning curve for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n
Hunt, the 2025 world 200m silver medallist, wrapped up the sprint double before winning gold with the women\u2019s 4x100m relay quartet on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Azu, who collected 100m silver in Birmingham, got Great Britain started with a 10.54s opening leg and Asher-Smith flew down the back straight, handing off to Hughes, the 200m silver medallist this week, after 10.04s.<\/p>\n
The crowd roared as Zharnel Huges set Hunt off in 9.53 seconds, and Hunt, the English Literature graduate-turned-history-writer, could not be beat, anchoring the hosts home in 9.86s.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis won his fourth consecutive gold medal in the men’s pole vault, breaking the championship record with a jump of 6.15 metres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Hunt became the first athlete to win four gold medals at a single European championships as Swedish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-595793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}