European Athletics Championships: Great Britain claim gold in men's 4x100 metres relay

It was gold for Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Zharnel Hughes and Romell Glavein the men's 4x100m relay final. Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images

Great Britain have sealed another gold medal at the European Athletics Championships with a dominant showing in the men's 4x100 metres final.

Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe, Zharnel Hughes and Romell Glave stormed to gold in 38.45s.

Azu, who claimed individual 100m silver on Tuesday in a British one-two with Glave, ran a 10.51s opener, while Hinchliffe, Hughes and Glave all dipped below 10 seconds.

Germany claimed silver 0.19s behind, and Belgium took bronze in 38.70s.

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Jake Heyward missed out on a medal by 0.16 seconds as the British trio of men's 1500m finalists were shut out of the podium, but Ireland's Andrew Coscoran collected bronze in a race won by the Netherlands' Stefan Nillessen in 3:35.70.

Heyward was fourth in 3:36.40, Arlo Ludewick fifth, and Jake Wightman sixth after Wightman and Heyward, who had been leading, ran out of steam with 100m to go and Nillessen produced a brilliant kick.

It was the second Irish medal of the penultimate evening session after Kate O'Connor won heptathlon gold with a national record 6,751 points.