World Athletics Championships 2025: Great Britain miss out on first medal in mixed 4x400m relay

Great Britain, Tokyo World Athletics Championship on the opening night of the 4x400m mixed team fell from the podium to the global flag medals could not extend the run.

The GB team made a podium at every flag event in the Paris 2024 Olympics and provided five of the country’s 10 athletics medals in last summer matches.

Two years ago, four flag medals were won in the previous world championships, which contained silver for the 4x400m mixed quartet on this occasion.

In the previous session in Japan on Saturday, the British team was qualified for the second time for the final, but Lewis Davey, Emily Newnham, Tony Harries and Nicole Yeargin won the fifth in the medal race, and those who won only 0.23 seconds from the podium were closed behind the United States.

The US team was equal to the championship record in 08.80 seconds to buy gold, the Netherlands – disabled star Femke Bol – and finished the Belgian podium.

“The Great Britain will be clearly disappointed. Maybe we hope they might be a little more than the mixture,” the Global Heptatlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, four times in BBC One. He said.

“It was a very difficult race in general. The Netherlands and the United States have been ahead so far. They were fantastic and there were some big times, so it would always be difficult.

“I feel some disappointment for Great Britain there, they could perform a little better.”

Reflected on his third leg Harries, “I had a lot of work to do. We are here to win a medal, GB, we are not just here to compete.

“Try and went out as hard as I could. I didn’t have that last game.”

He added the year: “I had to trust myself and I should have overcome [Bol] When can I do. I almost left him, we cracked the pointed ends.

“I hope we do better in men and women’s relays.”