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Britain win fifth medal in Osaka

02/09/2007

Great Britain have clinched their fifth medal of the World Championships after the women's 4x400 metre relay team won bronze in Osaka.

The team of Christine Ohuruogu, Marilyn Okoro, Lee McConnell and Nicola Sanders set a new national record of 3min 20.04secs.

A stunning final leg of 48.8 secs from Sanders gave Britain third place after she overtook Russian Natalya Antyukh with 10m left.

The United States took gold in 3:18.55 while Jamaica won silver. The result gives Britain their third bronze of the championships.

Sanders, who won silver in the 400m, praised her team's baton changes.

"These girls did brilliantly and kept me within reach," Sanders said.

"I knew the Russian tired at the end of the individual 400m, I just had to be in touch and go for it on the home straight."

Elsewhere, the men's 4x400m team of Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin, Richard Buck and Martyn Rooney finished sixth.

Their medal hopes were destroyed on the third leg when Buck collected the baton from Tobin and crashed into Germany's Kamghe Gaba to fall behind the leaders.

America won gold in 2:55.56, Bahamas took silver while Poland claimed the bronze medal.

In the men's 5,000m final, Briton Mo Farah was sixth in the 5,000m final with Bernard Lagat winning gold.

Farah, 24, led with a lap remaining but plummeted down the final standings after a sprint finish.

In the marathon, Britain's Mara Yamauchi finished ninth as Kenya's Catherine Ndereba won gold.