'I'm so happy' - Brilliant Jazmin Sawyers clinches European Championships long jump medal

Jazmin Sawyers pulled out a huge 6.80m long jump in the sixth and last round to win the bronze medal in a dramatic European Championships final.

The 28-year-old, from Trentham, had kept herself among the frontrunners in Munich but it took until the very last minute to edge onto the podium past Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (6.76), who then fouled on her own massive final jump next up.

It was the joyful response to just missing out on a medal at a fiercely-contested Commonwealth Games in Birmingham for the City of Stoke favourite. And a sweet response to the Europeans back in 2018 when Bekh-Romanchuk had edged Sawyers out of bronze place in her final jump.

Sawyers had won silver in Amsterdam in 2016 but it was clear from her celebrations how much this meant.

She said: "I've finally got a medal again. I'm so happy. My goal for the summer was to get a medal at every champs and I was starting to think I'd failed of my entire goal. I knew I was good enough to get a medal today and all the way through the comp I kept getting it wrong, not jumping right... but I knew I had it in me.

"I was standing at the top of the runway for that last jump thinking, 'You cannot leave here without a medal.'

"The 6.80 came up, I lose my mind and I think this is what happened last time when Maryna Bekh was next to jump back in Berlin four years ago. The exact same thing happened and she moved into silver and knocked me into fourth.

"So I was there going, 'What's she going to do? What's she going to do?' But I held on and I'm so happy.

"It's been a tough year and I know this is a bronze but it feels so good."

Ivana Vuleta (Serbia) took gold with 7.06 while local hero Malaika Mihambo got silver with 7.03.

British athletics legend Denise Lewis,