Another European title for Ingebrigtsen

Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway won his seventh European title in front of 13,623 fans at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on Monday night, when winning the 5,000m for the third time.

Racing towards the rear of the field for much of tonight’s final, the two-time Olympic champion made impressive headway in the latter stages of the contest to win in 13:15.29, a season’s best.

Florian Bremm of German took the silver medal in 13:15.60, with Etienne Daguinos of France settling for bronze in 13:16.09.

Ireland’s Brian Fay was prominent in the early kilometres of the race before eventually fading to finish in 14th place, clocking 13:31.15.

Darragh McElhinney and later, Nick Griggs, took positions closer to the front of the group, with Griggs eventually finishing best of the Irish trio in eighth place, in a time of 13:21.07. McElhinny, who looked for some of the race that he would be involved in the business end, faded in latter stages to cross the line in 18th place, in 13:37.62.

Norway won another gold when taking the 4 x 400m mixed relay final from Britain in second and the Netherlands in third. The winning time of 3:09.62 was a national record, a championship record and a European leading time.

First Gold of Championships goes to The Netherlands

The Netherlands took gold and silver in the women’s shot put – the first of five sets of medals awarded at Monday evening’s session.

Jessica Schilder threw 20.73m in round six to defeat her compatriot, who threw a PB of 19.64m in round one. German Yemisi Mabry claimed the bronze with a fifth round effort of 19.50m.

Amy Hunt won Gold for Britain in the women’s 100m, clocking 11.00 seconds in her victory.

Ewa Swoboda of Poland was second in 11.02 seconds, while the podium was completed by Delphine Nkansa of Belgium in a personal best time of 11.06 seconds.

It was an Italian 1-2 in the men’s shot put final. Leonardo Fabbri beat his compatriot Zane Weir with a third round throw of 22.31m. Weir took silver with 21.12m with his first effort, while Wictor Petersson from Sweden claimed bronze with 20.97m on his final throw.