Nice Britain clinched Olympic combined 4x400m relay bronze as Femke Bol anchored the Netherlands to a sensational gold at Paris 2024.
Amber Anning held on to 3rd place because the British crew completed in a nationwide report of three minutes 08.01 seconds on the Stade de France.
Nonetheless, she was handed on the house straight by Dutch star Bol, who produced a dramatic dash end to overtake the British after which American groups for gold.
The Netherlands set a European report of three:07.43 with Bol’s heroics, because the USA, who set a world report in qualifying, took silver in 3:07.74.
Bol measured her effort to perfection, monitoring the leaders earlier than making her closing push for gold as the group roared her on, a yr after her late fall value her nation the world combined relay title in Budapest.
On what she was pondering within the closing 100m, Bol stated: “Simply preserve going, preserve going. And my normal anger from Budapest.
“That and my team-mates cheering me. And the environment on this stadium is completely unimaginable. It is loopy. So the whole lot collectively.”
Olympic debutant Anning’s stable closing leg ensured GB – whose crew additionally included Samuel Reardon, Laviai Nielsen and Alex Haydock-Wilson – adopted up their 2023 world silver with one other medal within the occasion.
