Day 5 - Evening Session Athletics: European Championships

I have done the preparation and I just want to get out of there Jo

Pavey, 40 years of age. Nobody has won a European Championships at that

age. This is it. Her entire career has been about this moment. It is

gold for Jo Pavey. She is the champion. Welcome to the continuing

coverage of the athletics. That is the moment that Eilidh Child

realised that she was a European champion. 400-metre hurdles,

champion of Europe. That is Jo Pavey. After winning 10,000 metre

gold on the first night here, she is looking to add that in the 5000

metres. Would you say this is a tougher field? I would. She is

sitting third on the list. I think that Sifan Hassan will be a big

threat to Jo Pavey. The field could be stronger than the 10,000 metres.

Jo Pavey is in fantastic form. She has gathered herself a huge fan base

at home. I am sure that in her hometown of Exeter they will be

cheering loudly. I agree with Paula Radcliffe. That

gold medal was fantastic but for Jo Pavey to win a medal here, she will

have to do well. Emelia Gorecka has learned a lot by

being around Jo Pavey. I think this lady could be very difficult. Meraf

Bahta. Jo Pavey is squeezed into the

middle. Hang on, the is a gold-medallist in between you,

folks. Sifan Hassan ran that last night.

She could start as favourite. I do not think the race will be fast

enough to get rid of her. Nuria Fernandez chose to run this 5000

that could have run the 1500 metres. Susan Kuijken of Holland could also

have run the 1500 metres. Jo Pavey was a good 1500 metre

runner back at the age of 40 she will admit she does not have the

pace of some of these younger runners. She has displayed any

10,000 metres and in Glasgow that when it comes to get it comes to

determination, she has it in bucket loads. Emelia Gorecka looks a little

bit nervous. Yelena Korobkina is an athlete to

look out for. Just waiting. Nervous moments

because the pole vault was going on. Another Johnny with Jo Pavey. Let us

see what this race has in store for her. She has to be tired. 25 laps.

All of the euphoria and elation after that great victory, and all of

the adulation, you have to deal with that and that takes energy out of

you. This is tough for Jo Pavey. Different type of field and a

different type of athletes. We know she will give her best but this will

be hard. This will be a tough race but a good race. At the moment,

right at the back, is the 1500 metre champion, Sifan Hassan. Sara Moreira

of Portugal bleeding out. -- leading out. There is no better way to level

than to spend time with Job Philip -- Jo Pavey in the village. That is

clever and smart and what you should do as a young athlete if you have

ambitions to do what Jo Pavey has done. That is sensible running from

Jo Pavey. Meraf Bahta from Sweden is just behind Jo Pavey. Sifan Hassan

did exactly the same as this in the 1500 metres, settling down at the

back of the field. It is a thrilling climax to the men's hammer final.

This happened in the fifth round. It was confirmed Solver for Banville

fadge deck. The pressure was off for Krisztian Pars. This was his best

throw of the final. -- silver for Pawel Fajdek. 82.69 for the world

lobbied for the home game. -- world lead

she has not been beaten by a European in over four years. 67.37,

that is likely to win. Not sure who is likely to win here

but the person we have -- we think has a great chance, Sifan Hassan has

moved up. They have slowed down again. 77 seconds in the first lap.

If you are a 5,000-metre athlete, you might as well make it a decent

race. There is only one thing that will happen if it is too slow for

too long. There is one of the sprinting athletes in the orange

vest. Joel Pavey is now following Emelia Gorecka. -- Jo Pavey. Sara

Moreira is just moving them along. Jo Pavey is right in the middle.

Just to talk about Sifan Hassan, she is like Mo Farah. She was a

refugee. Her family had all sorts of issues and she came as a refugee to

Holland. She did not do any running in Ethiopia. She did some running at

school and she was spotted. She was picked up by the national squad. The

national director recognised her talent. Her form was really bad and

she was running naturally. She has worked very hard with the national

team and they have done a good job of her. When she won the gold medal,

she said she was so proud to be waving the flag of Holland. It is

where she lives. -- wearing the flag. The only altitude training

they do is in America and she does not know very much about that. That

was a very slow lap. 79 seconds. They are all concertina had

together. Nobody is doing anything special.

At this distance, sometimes the 1500 metres winner wins, sometimes the

10,000 metre winner wins. SAP and Hassan is much more quicker over

1500 metres. 6.254 2000 metres. -- 6.25

it was a wake-up call. At that world level she might not be ready. At

this level, she still has the 1000 500 metres in her legs from last

night. This is how she would want the tactics to play out. So far, so

good for the 1500 metre runners. The distance people have got to

think about moving this along at some stage. It is too slow. The

seats whereon fusty in the 5000 metres. The seats were cancelled and

that was another opportunity for Sifan Hassan. -- the heats. They

were saying to me the other day that the setup by British athletics and

the recovery simulation and they retain the athletes go through is

superb. Andy Vernon said the same thing about Jo Pavey. They have bass

and mass adages. -- cold baths and massages. I think Jo Pavey will now

start to think about going for the leader. Gonzales is in the lead. Her

team-mate is towards the back. Renata Plis as well. One or two Mac

other athletes who could figure in this but are happy to stay at the

back. It is now the 1500 metre women that are running to the front. Maren

Kock as well from Germany. She has been having a good season. The will

be plenty engineer who think they have got a good chance. The race has

not got going. -- plenty in here. Once the athletes get near the

front, they back off and slowdown. That was a 79 second lap. The race

will now be a 2,000-metre race. No qualifying and a slow start to the

race, the 1500 metre athletes will be favoured. Sweden coming up on the

outside. It hasn't always been the 5000 metres at European

Championships, it used to be the 3,000-metre race, and Yvonne Murray

won a gold, silver and bronze over three years, it has almost been

turned into a 3,000-metre race. Look at them all bunching. Somebody has

two take this on. Four laps to go. A bit of it pays on the front, Hassan

is back. She will recognise that the pace is picking up. Hassan is

dancing ahead to see what was happening. Deciding, no, not bathing

a move yet. Less than one mile to go, Jo Pavey moving close to the

front for the first time, and just to underline the task she has got,

over the years, we have met many different British athletes going for

the 3000, 5000, can she had a gold-medal here? She has got a tough

job. She has got some talent around her. She needs to do something in

the last three laps. Three laps to go, their nerves will start to get

more anxious ACARS they have not run physically hard, just on telly, and

sometimes they give up. -- because they have not run physically hard. I

can sense that Jo Pavey wants to make a move, she wants to strike. I

would like somebody to make a move, because Hassan is trying to take the

short route, when she passes somebody, Sonja Roman, she has

stepped off, look at Hassan moving to the inside, there is too much

danger for Jo Pavey. Bahta at the front. Jo Pavey, as they come

around, it would be two laps to go into the final 1000 metres. The two

British women still involved, but lots of danger. Hassan is still

sticking to the curb, watching these six, seven, eight, nine women in

front of her contesting this lead, but no body has made a big push yet.

Ten athletes in this leading group and nobody has been strong enough to

attack this race yet, mentally or physically, two laps to go, 800

metres, they have not done much business so far. The last lap was 73

seconds. They will have to raise now and Jo Pavey is starting to run for

it, giving herself some work to do. Hassan is tracking Jo Pavey down the

straight. Hassan is being stretched a little bit. This is moving into

her territory. Susan Calkins, her tea made from the Netherlands, --

team-mate. Hassan is looking tired, but as they come around with 500

metres to go, would she have the pace that she showed in the 1500

metre final last night? Hassan pounds to last night would fall

under biggest ago. Jo Pavey giving herself the chance. -- Hassan

pounced last night with 400 metres to go. A brave effort coming from a

good length back, Hassan has a lot to do, but she is starting to do

that. Jo Pavey is fighting for a Matt Gill, but Bahta is stretching

out. -- fighting for a medal. She is in a horrible position, I do not

know why she was going inside, but finally she gets herself out. Jo

Pavey is struggling. At the front, Bahta kicking hard. Here she comes,

Hassan, can she make it two gold medals? The Russian is trying to

hang on. Here comes Hassan, this would be an historic win at she can

do it. Bahta on the inside, Hassan on the outside, not overreact, Bahta

hanging on! Gold for Sweden, Hassan taking the silver! The Netherlands

gets the bronze medal. Jo Pavey is in sixth or seventh place, I think.

Well, well, well, the big favourite, I thought she looked tired, I

thought she was try to do as little as possible, Brendan, that is one

race a little bit too much for Jo Pavey. We tried to say at the start

that this was a big ask for Jo Pavey. To ask her to come back and

take on the 1500 metres specialists which would not be a 5,000-metre

race, it is asking too much in that sense. She was never the favourite

for a medal. We hoped and crossed fingers it might go her way, but

when it was that kind of race, it was always going to come down to

that big last 400 metres and they have the pace. They did not have 25

laps and a gold medal already in their legs. But she looked

vulnerable to me, and when she made that big move down the back

straight, but Bahta, she is a 1500 metre runner will stop that is not

the result that Hassan would have expected. A good performance last

night, and today, still a good performance. She was doing what she

had to do. She looked like she was saving something, getting ready to

go, and Bahta occupies the pole position as the bell sounds. Emelia

Gorecka at the back, here comes Jo Pavey. Look at where Hassan is

coming from. Lots to do in the last lap. The pace was not strong, it

wasn't fast, and Bahta is leading, her job was, whatever happens, when

they come at me, I need to make a move and hold them off and on the

back straight, Hassan is eating up the ground. She passes team-mate.

Bahta, stretching, running strongly again on the bend. She attacks and

moves into second place and settled at second place and in that second

place, she is now waiting. Bahta is there to be shot at, but Hamsun, the

1500 metre champion, she looked like she could go for it. -- but Hassan.

Bahta, stretching, working hard, the Eritrean athlete who fled from

Eritrea and ended up with the support of the Swedish federation

living in Sweden. They have done a great job, helping her in every

sense, but she pays them back with a gold-medal for Sweden, Bahta, from

Sweden, she wins the 5000 metres gold medal. Hassan with the silver

medal. Jo Pavey, this was one race too many for Jo Pavey, you cannot

take it away from her. Bahta wins the 5000 metres. Jo Pavey knows all

about that gold medal winning feeling, you gave it your all as you

always do, what did you have left in you after the ten? I was

disappointed how I felt today, I knew that recovering from the ten

would be difficult, but I gave it everything and I am so pleased I had

a go. Thank you to everyone, thank you to my family, Jacob, James the

physiotherapist, I cannot be more pleased to come away and it is a

pleasure to show the track with the younger generation coming through.

She is half my age and it is lovely to see her developing and that was

special also. It was great for you Amelia to have Jo Pavey to look up

to and inspire you around the camp. Yes, Jo Pavey is putting all of my

aspirations and dreams into reality in front of me, and she's an

inspiration to have and I have gotten to know at the Commonwealth

Games and at this event, she is the most lovely lady also, it is an

honour to be there with her. A lovely tribute, let us get the last

word from you, you will have to get used to being a celebrity! I am so

grateful for the kind words from everyone. It has been a great

experience. The best of luck with everything in the future. The gold

medal goes to Sweden, Bahta did it. Holland, the Netherlands with a

silver medal and a great bronze medal from Susan Calc and in third

place. A great race in terms of the finish, that was a great finish from

Bahta, and Emelia Gorecka to deliver tributes like that when you have

just raced, that is really lovely, a lovely thing to say, what she did

there, and Jo Pavey should feel completely satisfied with her

performance. I think she well, she will be very satisfied with the

10,000 metre performance. She always knew that it was going to be the

recovery that was hard. The recovery was hard from that, I thought for a

little while that may be Amelia might have the courage to go and do

it, but she acquitted herself really well, and they do look up to Jo

Pavey, and they take a lot of inspiration but a lot of advice

from. If we go back and look at that race we will see that at a certain

point in that race, Hassan was watching Joe. That shows how much

respect the other athletes have, because she was the favourite coming

in and she is watching what Jo Pavey was doing and sitting behind her and

almost letting Bahta move up the front, and she realised that a

little bit too late and gave too much of a gap to Bahta who could

hold her off and keep something in reserve and knew that this finish

was coming from Hassan, but it was a victory for Bahta because she worked

hard, and she judged the race perfectly. Sadly, we will not be

putting a medal up here this time, but Jo -- Eilidh Child has a medal

to go up there. Well done, you have delivered on each occasion, now, a

gold-medal. I just needed to raise right and I am so happy with the

outcome. I needed to get to the line as quickly as possible, I just

crossed the line and did not know what happened. I'm delighted to get

the gold medal. You had to check the scoreboard to see if you had done

it. I needed to check the screen properly. Can you sum up what all of

this means to you? It is amazing. So many people that I need to tax too,

my code, by training group, I have been working with a sports

psychologist this year and he has really helped me. -- so many people

that I need to thank, my coach. The pressure, and then the help from

Malcolm, I am so delighted. You have got a Commonwealth silver in your

own country and now a gold-medal here, what would you have said at

the start of the year? I could not have believed it. These are moments

that you dream about. To win a championship and my first major

medal, a gold-medal, I am delighted to have it. Fantastic, a wonderful

season, all the best. She was delighted for to have a few minutes

to deal with what she has done. Andrew Cotter has this 400-metre

hurdles medal ceremony. Irina Davydova handing over her medal

here, she is the defending champion. She had the season 's best and

nearly got there as did the athlete in this evil medal position. A She

started the race is slowly but was fast round a final bend.

She was denied a handshake and there.

The Commonwealth Games was something special, silver medal in front of

her own folk. There's nothing quite like gold. The leader of the season

was the best way to put it, she was so good this season and delivered

here on the European stage. The moment that all athletes work

towards, standing on top of the podium. Eilidh Child, gold medal

around her neck, European champion. In four years she has gone from last

place to gold medal. It has been some Johnny. I know her coach very

well, Malcolm, because he used to coach me. He is never happy. He can

get to push faster quicker. It will be back to the drawing board for

her. Deep down, I expect she wants to go below 54 seconds which will be

the next breakthrough. She has all of the qualities to do that. She

will work hard to make that happen. The most important things for

athlete is too at -- for athletes is to avoid injury during the winter.

She will get a rest? She says as it concerned a mother. She will get

some rest. Adam Gemili is coming out. You will be top of the podium

for his medal ceremony. Let us remind you what happened in the 200

metres Adam Gemili with a huge opportunity

to win this title. Christophe Lemaitre is trying to match her in

the top end. Adam Gemili will have to hold off the Frenchman. Adam

Gemili has got ten metres on the field. Adam Gemili, it is called for

Great Britain and it is below 20 seconds to win the European

Championships. Simply superb. It was a big target for me and to achieve

it, I am really happy. It is Steve Cram is time to talk us through this

medal ceremony. -- Steve Cram's turn.

It was a good night for Great Britain last night but it was also

good for Ukraine. He followed the two big names in that 200 metres

final. Christophe Lemaitre, he has been a good champion. As a

20-year-old, he won the championship in 2010. He dearly wanted to win it

again. He ran well. He did not run badly at all. 20.15. It is a silver

medal. A familiar smile on the face of the

European 200-metre champion. 19.98. It was wet and cold. He warned all

others up last night with that performance. -- all of us.

It was a great world performance. Well done to Adam Gemili. He sang

his heart out. Great to see him enjoying that moment. When you have

had a day to reflect on your achievement, if you are not

shell-shocked, you can really appreciate that. I think that is

when the emotions poured out. Adam always takes things in his stride

because he is that type of guy but deep down, he will be overwhelmed.

It has been a brilliant performance for him and that medal must feel so

sweet around his neck. It must feel so satisfying to pay to put the hard

work and, to have that aim, and to deliver on the world stage. Colin

Jackson has been trying to persuade him to go to get that British

record. There's no medal ceremony complete without having a little

taste of your medal. The women's triple jump. This is the

best jump so far. It was the lead at the time. It was in the second

round. That is in second place because this jump from Olha

Saladukha -- Olha Saladukha from the Ukraine, also in the second round,

was just a fraction further. 14.73. She is looking for her third

straight title. Perfect on the board. Very tight indeed, just four

centimetres separating the defending European champion from the world

silver-medallist. It is a season 's best. She is bringing her best form

of the year into the European Championships which is good to see.

Former world champion, that is the leading mark into the final stages.

Sandra Perkovic is looking impervious. She is already way out

in front. She added that 68.78. Five metres ahead of the best of the

rest. Let us bring you up to speed after

this penultimate afternoon of athletics. France are just on top by

two medals. Equal gold medals with Great Britain. It will be a

fantastic final day. Russell are in third place. Germany are right down

the in sixth place with two Mac gold medals for Germany. The men's four x

100 metres look very strong. There should be more gold braid -- more

medals for Britain to be taking. A very exciting final afternoon. There

was a gold medal for mascot behaviour, there is only one

contender, Julie. -- Cooly. Very, very talented. That must be

some athlete inside that suit because the range of what that code

can do. This code has been pushed by a former European champion. -- cow.

You will see the results of this race tomorrow. Naughty shenanigans.

I cannot tell you about the result. I bet that Cooly wipes the floor

with you. I was very nervous. I demonstrated that as well. Let us

look at the timetable for tomorrow. You will see that at some point

tomorrow squatted between all of this. -- slotted.

It will be a great afternoon. So tight at the top of the medal table.

Plenty to play for. Lovely afternoon and it has went so quickly. The

women have delivered. I felt that Lynsey Sharp was fantastic. New

personal best and Scottish record. And also Eilidh Child. What a

performance. Gold medal around her neck, lovely. Jo Pavey was exhausted

and the legs were feeling it from the 10,000 metres.

It has been another brilliant afternoon. We have been able to

celebrate success for Lynsey Sharp, that silver medal was fantastic for

her. And also with the goal before Eilidh Child. Another brilliant

afternoon in the Letzigrund Stadium. -- gold.

It is all about who gets this right on the day. Lynsey Sharp is doing

this from the front. Gold for Belarus. Eilidh Child leads. Into

the final barrier. It is called for Eilidh Child.

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