Keely Hodgkinson and Jazmin Sawyers lead British gold rush on final day of European Indoors

British, Dutch and Norwegian athletes shone as the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships drew to a close in Istanbul on Sunday (5 March).

There was a golden few minutes for Great Britain as Keely Hodgkinson took an expected gold in the women's 800m before Jazmin Sawyers pulled off an upset in the long jump.

As Hodgkinson completed her lap of honour, Sawyers jumped 7.00m - the first time she had reached the magical barrier - in the fifth round to go in front.

Italy's Larissa Iapichino's final-round leap of 6.97m secured silver with Serbia's Ivana Vuleta (formerly Spanovic) in third after her fifth-round jump of 6.91m.

Germany's Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo (6.83m) missed out of the medals in fourth.

Individual champion Femke Bol anchored the Dutch home to a new championship record of 3:25.66 in the women's 4x400m relay.

Silver medallist Lieke Klaver led off for the Dutch who were never headed despite Poland and Italy closing in the middle stages. And 400m indoor world record holder Bol clocked 49.58 as the Netherlands took almost exactly a second and a half off the mark they set in Torun two years ago.

Italy took silver in a new national record ahead of the Poles.

If that success was widely predicted, Douwe Amel's high jump gold was anything but.

The 31-year-old had a personal best of 2.26m at the start of the day, but he cleared 2.29m on his third attempt to stay in the competition and then 2.31m at the second time of asking to clinch the Netherlands' third gold in Istanbul.

Ukraine's Andrii Protsenko was second on countback ahead of Belgium's Thomas Carmoy.

There were also two golds for Norway on the final day which took their tally to four for the event.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen backed up his 1500m gold with a facile victory in the 3000m.

The Norwegian star gradually wound up the pace to leave his rivals toiling with only Spain's Adel Mechaal able to stay with him until the last lap.

And Ingebrigtsen cruised clear to win in a new national record with Elzan Bibic of Serbia taking the bronze.

Sondre Guttormsen made it four golds for Norway in a tight men's pole vault.

Guttormsen was one of four men to clear 5.80m at the first attempt, but his blemish-free series before that saw him take gold on countback with Greece's Emmanouil Karalis and Piotr Lisek of Poland sharing silver having had one failure apiece.

Torben Blech of Germany was the unlucky man in fourth after two failures.

In the morning session, Greece's Olympic long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou scooped yet another title with a first-round jump of 8.30m.

There was also success for Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the women's high jump as the Ukrainian needed just four jumps - all first-time clearances - with 1.98m proving enough for victory.

Individual silver medallist Julien Watrin ran a superb anchor leg to give Belgium victory in the men's 4x400m relay.

Spain had led from the gun thanks to Oscar Husillos, but David Garcia faded badly on the final leg with France taking silver and the Netherlands third.

Adrian Ben gave Spain something to cheer in the men's 800m, pipping France's Benjamin Robert on the line to take gold.

Kevin Mayer had enough in hand in the closing 1000m to take the men's heptathlon.

The French multi-event star took a lead of 101 points over Norway's Sander Skotheim into the final event - equivalent to around nine seconds - and finished less than seven seconds behind his closest rival to take gold by 30 points.

Estonia's Risto Lillemets won the bronze.

The four days of action ended with the 60m hurdles and Finland's Reetta Nurske took gold in the women's event.

Jason Joseph of Switzerland came out on top in the men's in a very quick 7.41 seconds, but there was concern for Spanish hurdler Enrique Llopis who was knocked out after crashing into the last obstacle.

He was stretchered away and taken to hospital with the Spanish athletics federation later reporting that he had regained consciousness.

• 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships: All results and medal winners