Keely Hodgkinson smiles for the cameras as the silver medal is placed around her neck, but that's going to hurt.

It's not the colour she wanted and she has lost her European title.

She gets a big hug from her family and friends, along with coaches Jenny Meadows and Trevor Painter.

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Paula Radcliffe
Former women's marathon world record holder on BBC One

Audrey Werro is young still and that was a huge amount of pressure even without the fall, without the bruising and then to pull it together to take the race by the scruff of the neck, which I think Keely did intend for her to do but she thought she could come back at her.

But Werro had another gear.

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It wasn't to be for Keely Hodgkinson. She was grimacing down that back 50m but she just couldn't claw back the ground on Audrey Werro, who, it has to be said, looked pretty comfortable.

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Audrey Werro wins it! After yesterday's dramatic fall, the Swiss athlete just had too much in the tank for Keely Hodgkinson and the Briton couldn't reel her in down the back straight.

It's a championship record time of 1:54.81 for Werro.

Femke Broeders-Bol, who only recently switched to 800m from 400m hurdles, sets a new national record for the Netherlands as she claims the bronze.

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Audrey Werro makes her move. She heads into the final lap in front.

Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Broeders-Bol are right behind.

Keely Hodgkinson makes the fastest start and she heads to the front of the field. But Audrey Werro is right on her shoulder.

And they're off!

Ready everyone? Here we go...

It seems you lot are confident Keely Hodgkinson is going to win gold this evening. A final check of our poll tells me that 47% of you believe she will cross the finish line in first place.

Audrey Werro gets 25% of the votes, while Femke Broeders-Bol has 23%.

Britain's Jemma Reekie, who finished first as Audrey Werro fell in the opening semi-final, gets a warm reception too.

Here they come!

A massive roar from the Birmingham crowd as Keely Hodgkinson sprints onto the track.

The 24-year-old starts in lane five.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
Three-time world heptathlon champion on BBC One

I just feel Broeders-Bol is a real danger because we don't quite know her potential yet.

This time last year no-one would have said this would have been the landscape and the situation that Keely was in so it's changed dramatically.

A medal of any colour tonight would be Keely Hodgkinson's 12th on the international stage in just six seasons, while gold would represent a fifth European title overall since her first in 2021.

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The world record for the women's 800m is the longest-standing in athletics. No-one has managed to break it for 43 years.

The women's 800m world record is held by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova, who ran a time of one minute 53.28 seconds in 1983.

There have been claims that Kratochvilova's performance in Munich was assisted by the systematic doping regime that existed in her country at the time - something she has strenuously denied.

Back in 1983, then 32-year-old Kratochvilova crossed the finish line more than seven seconds ahead of her closest rival, Poland's Jolanta Januchta.

The closest any athlete has come to breaking it is Swiss athlete Audrey Werro, who ran a time of 1:53.80 in June this year.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
Three-time world heptathlon champion on BBC Two

I feel really nervous about Femke Broeders-Bol because she is an unknown, very new to the event and already ran some incredible times.

In the semi-final she just sits on Keely's shoulder, doesn't make any moves, doesn't look out of breath and she's not at her limit so it will be really interesting to see how Keely takes the final and whether Femke can stay with her.

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A reminder of the stakes...

Keely Hodgkinson has won the past two European titles and will be hoping to defend her crown following a successful season that has seen her break the long-standing indoor 800m world record, win her first world title and improve her British record outdoors.

No-one has broken Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m time of 1:53.28 seconds that was set back in 1983. There have been claims that Kratochvilova's performance in Munich was assisted by the systematic doping regime that existed in her country at the time - something she has strenuously denied.

It is Audrey Werro, however, who has come closest to breaking that record. She has run three of the nine fastest women's 800m times in history during a superb unbeaten outdoor season.

After improving to 1:53.80 seconds in June - the third fastest in history - Werro's personal best is more than half a second faster than Hodgkinson's 1:54.33.

But there will be a new contender for Hodgkinson and Werro to be wary of in the form of Femke Broeders-Bol.

Still largely an unknown in the 800m after deciding to switch disciplines from 400m hurdles, the Dutch athlete impressed at the Paris Diamond League event in June with a time of 1:55.60.

The man who beat Zharnel Hughes to 200m gold tonight, Owen Ansah, has a bit of a storm around him at present.

Ansah is being investigated by the German Anti-Doping Agency over whether he evaded or refused to provide a sample last month.

He says he was leaving for the airport after a last-minute call-up to compete in Monaco when the doping control officer arrived at his home and believes he has no case to answer.

The German anti doping agency want a four year ban for his failure to take a test, and Germany won't select him in the upcoming relays for fear of losing the medal.

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