Andrew Cotter
Commentator on BBC One

Zharnel Hughes is laughing and smiling because I think he recognises he's not been at his very best this season.

At his best, he knows the 200m title in Europe is his, but I think he'll be fairly satisfied with a silver medal.

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We're nearly ready for the event that everyone has been waiting for.

The women's 800m final is the last event of the evening and it's coming up in 15 minutes.

Can Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson defend her two European titles?

Will Audrey Werro - the third fastest women's 800m runner in history - bounce back from her fall yesterday?

Or maybe Femke Broeders-Bol will surprise us all!

Let's find out...

Remarkably, the bronze medal is shared.

Timothe Mumenthaler of Switzerland and Italy's Fausto Desalu both finish in 20.26 secs, a dead heat.

Owen Ansah came through like a freight train in the final 100m! No-one could go with him.

He wins in a time of 19.95 seconds, ahead of Zharnel Hughes who takes silver in 20.16 secs.

For the first time at these championships, a sprint event is not won by a Brit.

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On your marks...

A big cheer for Hughes, although Germany's Owen Ansah gets a warm welcome too.

This could be a great final.

The competitors in the penultimate track event tonight are getting the big entry through the tunnel, with an excited announcer and jets of steam.

Zharnel Hughes is among them, of course.

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Five British men have won the 200m title. Can Hughes become the first to win it twice?

2022: Zharnel Hughes - 20.07 seconds

2014: Adam Gemili - 19.98 seconds

1998: Doug Walker - 20.53 seconds *

1990: John Regis - 20.11 seconds

1950: Brian Shenton - 21.5 seconds

* GB finished 1-2-3 as Dougie Turner and Julian Golding won silver and bronze respectively

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Great Britain's Katrina Johnson-Thompson, spoke to BBC One after finishing day one of the heptathlon: "This season's been super difficult. I just love the home crowds and I fought so hard to be healthy and here on the start line so I feel like all my energy and my efforts were pretty much to get here to the start line.

"Obviously I believe in myself and I trust my talent, but I just haven't put in enough work unfortunately. It's such a pleasure to be here at full capacity and hear the home cheer again."

On hearing the noise from the crowd at the start line: "It almost takes me by surprise. I've been to enough home championships now to remember the volume of it but the British crowds are always very special so I'm just happy to be here today."

British record holder Zharnel Hughes goes in lane seven. He won his semi-final, easing down in 20.05 seconds, and is vying to make it five wins out of five for the host nation this week in the individual sprint events.

The 2022 gold medallist faces competition from the likes of Swiss defending champion Timothe Mumenthaler, who ran a 20.09 sec PB in the same semi, Italian Fausto Desalu and Germany’s 100m bronze medallist Owen Ansah.

Ansah, who equalled Hughes’ European lead of 20.04 to win the other semi, is being investigated by the German Anti-Doping Agency over whether he evaded or refused to provide a sample last month. Ansah 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.

Bad news for Britain in the men's high jump we're afraid.

Both Kimani Jack and Joel Clarke-Khan have failed in three attempts at 2.27 metres, meaning they will finish in fourth and fifth place respectively.

Well. You can tell Katarina Johnson-Thompson is out of practice.

The Briton was smiling and soaking up the atmosphere right before they set off, but she's left behind by the rest of the field.

A reminder that Johnson-Thompson has not competed in the 200m - or any event but the shot put - since last September.

It was a rapid race, to be fair. The Netherland's Sofie Doktor crosses the line first with a time of 23.05 - the fastest across the three heats.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is up next. What can she do here?

The two-time former world champion needs to have a good race here if she's to head into the final day with any chance of a medal.

She's 15th as things stand.

Kate O'Connor had opened up a significant gap between herself and Adrianna Sulek-Schubert as she came out of the bend, but the Pole storms through the back 50m and O'Connor just about pips her over the finish line.

The Irish heptathlete finishes third with a time of 23.79 seconds - 0.05 seconds ahead of Sulek-Schubert, which amounts to around five points.

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This should be interesting. The leading pair in the overall standings - Poland's Adrianna Sulek-Schubert and Ireland's Kate O'Connor - are going in adjacent lanes in the next 200m heptathlon heat.

After losing ground to Sulek-Schubert in the shot put, O'Connor will be hoping to claw back some points here.

Jade O'Dowda ran a great bend, but she fades down the back straight and is reeled in by Belgium's Noor Vidts and Germany's Sandrina Sprengel.

O'Dowda finishes third in 24.51 seconds.

Right, here we go. The first of three 200m heats in the heptathlon is just about to get under way.

Britain's Jade O'Dowda set a personal best 200m time of 24.34 seconds earlier this year. Let's see how she gets on here.

She currently sits 11th in the overall standings.

After this pic was taken, Karsten Warholm went to celebrate with the Norway fans in the Alexander Stadium stands.

One of them handed him a snazzy gold sequined trilby hat, which Warholm wore with pride.

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