Gb Miss Out On First Medal On Opening Night In Tokyo

Great Britain were incapable to widen their tally of world relay medals arsenic nan mixed 4x400m squad fell short of a podium spot connected nan opening nighttime of nan World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo.

Team GB made nan podium successful each relay arena astatine nan Paris 2024 Olympics, supplying 5 of nan nation's 10 athletics medals astatine past summer's Games.

That came aft 4 relay medals were won astatine nan erstwhile World Championships 2 years ago, which included metallic for nan mixed 4x400m quartet connected that occasion.

In Saturday's earlier convention successful Japan, nan British squad had qualified for nan last pinch nan second-fastest clip but Lewis Davey, Emily Newnham, Tony Harries and Nicole Yeargin vanished 5th successful nan badge race, conscionable 0.23 seconds awkward of nan podium successful a adjacent decorativeness down runaway winners nan United States.

Team USA equalled nan title grounds successful 3 minutes 08.80 seconds to return gold, pinch nan Netherlands - anchored by hurdles prima Femke Bol - and Belgium completing nan podium.

"Great Britain will evidently travel distant disappointed. We possibly hoped they mightiness person been a small spot much successful nan operation than they were," four-time world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill said connected BBC One.

"Overall it was a very reliable race. The Netherlands and United States were truthful acold ahead. They were awesome and location were immoderate immense times ran there, truthful it was ever going to beryllium difficult.

"I do consciousness location is immoderate disappointment location for Great Britain, they could've performed somewhat better."

Reflecting connected his 3rd leg, Harries said: "I had a batch of activity to do. We're present to triumph medals, we're GB, we're not present to conscionable compete.

"I went retired arsenic difficult arsenic I could to effort and clasp it. I conscionable didn't person that extremity game."

Yeargin added: "I should person trusted myself and overtaken [Bol] erstwhile I could. I almost tripped her, we fought spikes.

"I dream we do amended successful nan men's and women's relays."

Jazmin Sawyers was near "gutted" aft missing retired connected nan women's agelong jump last connected her post-injury return to a world championship.

The 31-year-old ruptured her Achilles successful early 2024, which caused her to miss nan Olympics amid a 20-month spell distant from title earlier making her comeback successful May.

But contempt a season's champion of 6.89m, Sawyers could only negociate a champion of 6.54m arsenic she grounded to advance.

"I'm gutted. That's 1 of my worst competitions of nan year," Sawyers told BBC Sport.

"I consciousness for illustration truthful galore group put successful specified difficult activity to get maine present and I conscionable wish I could've made their activity mean a small more.

"I conscionable didn't do enough. It's difficult because I look astatine it and I consciousness arsenic though I had done everything starring into this, but now I've sewage to spell backmost this wintertime and do more. I don't consciousness for illustration I've fixed everything to nan athletics that I tin and there's nary excuse for that."

Muir was near perplexed by her nonaccomplishment to advancement successful nan women's 1500m aft she faded from contention successful nan closing stages.

The 32-year-old, an Olympic and world medallist, had made nan past 8 world outdoor 1500m finals but endured an injury-disrupted commencement to this season.

"I don't cognize what happened and I deliberation that's nan astir upsetting thing," said Muir.

"I consciousness for illustration I've had a spot of a disrupted twelvemonth but I was coming into shape really well. I was excited pinch nan style that I was in, truthful I was decidedly aiming to make nan last and beryllium competitory successful that final

"This has astir apt been nan hardest travel I've had to get to nan World Championships, truthful to person gone retired successful nan first information makes it really difficult."

All six of Britain's 100m entrants safely progressed to Sunday's semi-finals, earlier some nan men's and women's badge races return spot later successful nan session.

Dina Asher-Smith, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita precocious from their respective heats successful nan women's event, pinch world bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes, Jeremiah Azu and Romell Glave continuing successful nan men's.

Scott Lincoln placed eighth successful his first World Championship changeable put final.