Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake takes brilliant silver as Ramil Guliyev smashes championship record

ByPete Sharland

Updated 09/08/2018 at 20:01 GMT

Great Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake finished the European Championships 200m final brilliantly on Thursday to take silver behind Ramil Guliyev of Turkey, who smashed the championship record.

Mitchell-Blake was one of the most impressive in qualifying along with Alex Wilson of Switzerland but neither had any answer for the world champion Guliyev.

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The Turkish runner took off and broke 20 seconds, clocking a time of 19.76, a new championship record.

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Wilson finished level with Mitchell-Blake on 20.04 but he had to settle for bronze behind the Brit.

Adam Gemili clocked 20.10 to come in fifth.

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