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Laura Muir retains European title, Dina Asher-Smith settles for 200m silver

Great Britain's Laura Muir won gold in the 1,500 meters at the European Championships, her fourth medal of the "insane" summer. She also sampledZarnerhues. Victory in Munich.

Muir, who won bronze at the World Championships and won gold and bronze at her Commonwealth Games, swept to retain the title she won four years earlier in Berlin.

Hughes also took an impressive win in the men's 200m ahead of teammate Nethaniel Mitchell Blake, whileDina Asher-Smith was behind Switzerland's Mujinga Kambunji.

Muir was happy to sit at the back of the field early on, but took the lead with two laps to go and 29-year-old Scott had to settle for a silver medal. kicked home with just over 400 meters remaining.

Ireland's Ciara Mageen dug deep to keep Muir out of her sight, but the Olympic silver medalist was too strong and she crossed the line in 4:01.08, with McGean putting her 1.48 seconds behind. rice field.

Poland's Sophia Nnaoui edged out Britain's Katie Snowden to take the bronze medal, with Ellie Baker finishing her eighth.

Regarding the packed schedule of this year's championship, Muir told her BBC:

"This was a great opportunity and a very unique opportunity where she didn't even get three champions in a year, let alone her five weeks of the summer. It was a mess, but... I thought, "I want to do this."

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I am very happy to win here.

``This was the hardest. Physically, it was very hard. I think it was the hardest race I have ever run.”

Hughes won gold in the 200m and silver in the 100m. After recording his season-best 20.07 seconds, Charlie he lost to Italy's Filippo He Tortu after Dobson threatened to make Britain's one-two-three.

"I am very happy," said Hughes. "My coach and I talked about this early in the season and expanded our program to stay fit.

"For the most part, the European Championships were more of a mental game than a physical game. I had to make sure my mental strength was on par, but I think I did a great job of that.”

Asher Smith, who has endured a difficult season with injuries, said: Although he ran faster in the final than in the semi-final, he was unable to catch Kanbunji, who won the gold medal in 22.32 seconds.

"Obviously I came here to win so I'm not too happy, but in the end Muzinga put together a better race. She's improved over the years. So congratulations,” said teammate Asher Smith. Jody Williams he was fourth.

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That's it.

Lawrence Okoye won the bronze medal with his 67.14 m throw in his first round in the discus, while Simon Petterson of Sweden was his fourth, just 2 cm behind him.

Okoye, who had been out of athletics for several years to pursue a career in the NFL, was in tears after becoming Britain's first European medalist in the men's discus.

"It's been a rough year for me in many ways. Doing what I did today means the world to me," Okoye said. "After some things I've been through, I just couldn't hold it back to win a medal in this field.

" I hope this is the beginning of something big for me.”

Earlier in the day, Olympic champion Tom Pidcock took the mountain bike cross-country won the gold medal after overcoming an early crash.

"It was a pretty tough race," said Pidcock. "It's hard to get ahead on this track with all that speed, so I made it difficult for myself.

"I crashed in the first corner. At least it was dry. Otherwise more. It would have been a big crash, but thankfully it wasn't too bad and we managed to get back to the front.

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