Keely Hodgkinson and Jazmin Sawyers claim golds for Great Britain at European Indoor Championships

It was a golden day for Great Britain at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, as Keely Hodgkinson and Jazmin Sawyers stole the show with golds. Hodgkinson has been a dominant performer in 800m this season, and carried the form to Turkey as she defended her title. Ad For Sawyers, it was a maiden major title and saw her set a world-leading jump of seven metres.

AthleticsMcColgan breaks Radcliffe's British 10,000m record — 'Knew I was in really good shape'11 HOURS AGO «I've never won anything,” Sawyers told BBC Sport after her gold was confirmed. “I'm still in shock. “I feel like a seven-metre jump has been in me for so long.

It's been so long that you start to wonder if it will ever come. I didn't know it was going to come then. »Seven metres is a real jump, it won the Olympics.

That will give me so much confidence going forward. I just want more of it." McColgan sets new British 10,000m record to surpass Radcliffe Muir wins 1500m gold at European Indoor championships Hodgkinson has been in blistering form, breaking her own British record on a superb run of form, and she took gold in Istanbul with a time of 1:55.82. The 21-year-old dedicated her victory to her former coach Joseph Galvin who died earlier in the week.

«I've not had time to process it,» she said. «This one is definitely for him. He had a lot of belief in little 10-year-old me.