England's sprinters dominant on the track with relay golds

The fastest man in history tweeted that he might have retired too young after watching the quartet of Reuben Arthur, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey cruise to victory ahead of South Africa and Jamaica in a time of 38.13 seconds.

That effort underlined England's status as the top dogs in world sprinting, particularly when you consider that they did this without a single member of the World Championship-winning relay team from London last year.

For Hughes it was also redemption after losing his 200m title on Thursday when he was disqualified after initially winning gold.

And despite the demands of racing on five successive days, there was never any question the 22-year-old would miss this relay.

He said: "It's been a long week, very long but at the end of the week now I'm a gold medalist with the guys and I'm really happy I was a part of it.

"I told the guys just get me the baton and I'm going to do what I have to do and it's redemption. I did just that, the guys did what they needed to do. I'm happy I was a part of it and we're celebrating as champions today.

"What's in the 200 is the 200, that's in the past now I've put that behind me to refocus on this. It shows that I have the class of a world class athlete to compose myself."

It was not just the men who stood on the top of the podium, but where they were in cruise control, a makeshift women's 4x100m team had a tougher time on the way to gold.

An injury to Corinne Humphrey, and with the 4x400m later in the session, England had to call on long jumped Lorraine Ugen to do the all-important final leg.

Given a healthy lead by Asha Phillip, Dina Asher-Smith and Bianca Williams, Ugen had just enough left in the tank to see England home, holding off Olympic champion Elaine Thompson of Jamaica.

She did all that, despite only practising with the rest of the team on the morning of the relay.

Ugen said: "I found out yesterday I was on the team, I did my first exchanges in the warm-up area earlier today but it went pretty well. I didn't feel too nervous though. I knew that if I was going to get called up; I was only going to accept it if I felt capable of doing the job and they gave me a really big lead so all I had to do was hold it, hold it, hold it."

On a hugely successful final day for England, Morgan Lake narrowly missed out on gold in the women's high jump, having to settle for silver as her first senior international medal.

Laura Weightman also produced a blistering finish to take bronze in the women's 5000m, four years after taking silver in the 1500m in Glasgow.

However there was disappointment for both Charlie Grice, fourth in the 1500m, and the women's 4x400m relay which also came home in fourth.