Great Britain’s Neil Gourley and Georgia Hunter Bell won 1500m medals on the final day of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in China.
Team captain Gourley took silver behind Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who added his first world 1500m title to the 3,000m gold he won on Saturday.
In a women’s final dominated by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, Olympic bronze medallist Hunter Bell ran a personal-best three minutes 59.84 seconds for bronze.
It took GB’s total medal haul in Nanjing to four, following golds for Jeremiah Azu in the men’s 60m and Amber Anning in the women’s 400m.
Gourley closely tracked strong favourite Ingebrigtsen, who won in 3:38.79, throughout the race to clock 3:39.07. American Luke Houser was third.
Behind Tsegay’s solo run to a second world indoor 1500m title, ahead of fellow Ethiopian Diribe Welteji, Hunter Bell had enough to hold off Australian Georgia Griffith as she bounced back from missing out on the European Indoors podium two weeks ago.
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