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BBC News
29-06-2025
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- BBC News
GB finish fifth at European Athletics Team Championships
Great Britain finished fifth overall at the European Athletics Team Championships in GB team, captained by discus thrower Lawrence Okoye, finished on 381 points, 3.5 points behind the Netherlands in fourth and three points ahead of sixth-placed Tait, making her international debut, was one of the standout performers on the final day, adding 15 points to GB's tally with a second-placed finish in the women's 3,000m steeplechase - just three hundredths of a second behind Finland's Ilona were also third-place finishes for Revee Walcott-Nolan in the women's 1500m and Toby Harries in the men's Walton, who had surgery on her throwing arm just five months ago, threw 58.63m to finish fourth in the women's javelin, while Scott Lincoln also finished fourth in the men's shot Sawyers continued her comeback from a 20-month lay-off with an Achilles injury with a sixth-placed finish in the women's long the final event of the night, the 4x400m mixed relay team of Lina Nielsen, Toby Harries, Emily Newnham and Samuel Reardon finished finished third with a time of three minutes 9.6 seconds - the same time as second-placed Italy - to earn GB their final 14 Friday, 21-year-old Reardon set a championship record and ran a personal best time of 44.60 to win the time places the double Olympic bronze medallist seventh on the all-time list for European Amo-Dadzie, nicknamed the 'world's fastest accountant', clocked 10.07 as he claimed top spot in the men's successfully defended the crown they won in Poland in 2023.
South China Morning Post
08-05-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong perfect base for Team GB athletes as they embark on World Championships quest
Team GB Olympic medallist Toby Harries has said that Hong Kong provided the perfect setting to prepare for this weekend's World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou. Advertisement Harries is embarking on the second phase of his career, having switched last year to running the 400 metres after considering quitting because he felt 'down and out' after a period of stagnation in the 200m. He documented his bid to qualify for Great Britain's 2024 Olympics 4x400m men's team for more than 20,000 social media followers, who saw Harries' mission end with a hard-earned bronze medal. 'I'd been working for 10 years with nothing to show for it,' said Harries, who had overcome tearing his hamstring off the bone, as well as about 20 other tears, at the outset of his career. 'If I was going to fail aiming for the biggest event in the world, I wanted to show people you should never give up.' Toby Harries said he 'would be England level now' had he stuck to rugby. Photo: British Athletics He went to Paris following injury and illness, and, while the mixed-relay event was happening, Harries was in the warm-up area 'doing my own Olympic final' for the men's quartet.
