Farah completes golden double
Britain's Mo Farah completed a historic long-distance double at the European Championships in Barcelona on Saturday night.
Farah, who won the 10,000m title on the opening night of competition, added the 5,000m to become the first British athlete to do the double, and the first since Italy's Salvatore Antibo in 1990. The Somalia-born 27-year-old took up the running with three laps to go and powered away from the field to win by almost two seconds from Spain's Jesus Espana, the man who denied him the title by just 0.09secs four years ago.
"It's hard to put it into words," Farah said. "It wasn't easy, I had to work hard for it. I can't believe I am a double champion."
Turkey's Nevin Yanit claimed gold in a thrilling finish to the women's 100m hurdles, holding off Ireland's Derval O'Rourke by just 0.02 seconds, with Germany's Carolin Nytra just 0.03secs behind O'Rourke in third.
"This performance is amazing, I could not expect such a victory," said Yanit, who clocked a time of 12.63 seconds. "My room number is 1263, my phone number ends with those digits. It was like a sign about victory and I realised it. It's crazy."
Elsewhere, France's Renaud Lavillenie won the pole vault as expected, soaring over 5.85m with his first attempt to beat Maksym Mazuryk of Ukraine into second.
Ukraine's Olha Saladuha won the women's triple jump title with a best of 14.81m, while France's Myriam Soumare was a surprise winner of the women's 200m from lane eight in 22.32 seconds.Compatriot Veronique Mang was disqualified for a false start.
Poland's Marcin Lewandowski won the 800m title by just 0.10s from Britain's Michael Rimmer, but there were further golds for Britain in the heptathlon and 400m hurdles.
Jessica Ennis added the European title to the world crown she won in Barcelona last year, beating Ukraine's 2008 Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska by just 45 points.
And Dai Greene led a British, and Welsh, one-two in the 400m hurdles ahead of training partner Rhys Williams. Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus won the men's shot with 21.01m, while Norway's Andreas Thorkildsen took javelin gold with 88.37m.
