Individual gold medallists Jeff Eruis and Success Eduan anchored France and Great Britain to men’s and women’s 4x100m gold medals in championship record times at the Bergen 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships on Sunday (20).
Bergen 2025 is being live streamed on the European Athletics website courtesy of Eurovision Sport.
In the men’s 4x100m, Germany, the Netherlands with individual silver medallist Nsikak Ekpo on the second leg and Spain with individual bronze medallist Abel Jordan on the second leg, made the early running.
But with a brilliant third leg by Mohammed Badru, France handed over cleanly to Erius in the lead and from that point, there was only ever going to be one winner.
Erius blazed across the finish in 38.43, to lop 0.27 off the Germany’s four year old championship record. It was also a new European U23 record. Heiko Gussmann anchored Germany to silver in 39.06 and Marc Escandell brought home the bronze for Spain in 38.86.
Eduan anchors Britain to gold
In the women’s 4x100m, individual silver medallist Nia Wedderburn-Goodison led off for Great Britain and got them off to a brilliant start with Poland in close attendance. Germany and the Swiss team were also in contention.
A third leg fumble from Poland gave Great Britain more breathing space and 200m winner Success Eduan collected the baton in front and soared clear to take gold in a championship record of 42.92, clipping 0.12 from the British-owned best from Espoo 2023.
Switzerland delighted their supporters by coming through for silver in a national U23 record of 43.39. Poland crossed the line third, but were later disqualified for the earlier infringement, so Germany took bronze in 43.75.