New-look Great Britain team wins 4x100m relay bronze but Dina Asher-Smith suffers injury scare

Great Britain claimed bronze in the 4x100m men’s relay at the World Athletics Championships as star Dina Asher-Smith suffered an injury scare.

With Richard Kilty injured and Adam Gemili out of form, a new-look British team of Jona Efoloko, Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Reece Prescod finished on the podium behind Canada and the USA with a time of 37.83 seconds.

The quartet’s medal moves Britain forward from last year’s Olympic controversy in Tokyo when a team of Hughes, Mitchell-Blake, Kilty and CJ Ujah won the silver – only to have it taken away after Ujah’s positive drug test.

However, it was not all good news for Britain in Oregon as a leg injury to Asher-Smith saw the women’s 4x100m relay team finish in sixth at Hayward Field.

The team were up in third and in contention for a medal but fell back to eighth as Asher-Smith slowed down, but battled back through Daryll Neita to claim sixth.

The timing could not be much worse for the 26-year-old, with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games getting underway on July 28.

It has been a hectic schedule at the World Athletics Championships for Asher-Smith, who also won bronze over 200m and finished fourth in the 100m.

‘I feel confused because I felt fine coming in, but when I was going round the bend my legs just stopped corresponding with me,’ Asher-Smith told the BBC.

‘I hope it is nothing serious as I have a lot more races to do this year. I feel awful because we were running well.’

Mitchell-Blake, reflecting on the men’s bronze, said: ‘We have shown we are serial medallists in the relay.

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