In one of the most highly anticipated events not just of the weekend, but the season, Audrey Werro, Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Broeders-Bol lined up together one last time this year.
Werro and Broeders-Bol went out to take the lead with the Swiss athlete taking hold of the inside line, meanwhile the Olympic champion tucked behind the two tall athletes.
Then with 200m to go, Werro made her move as she started to pull away from Broeders-Bol, and soon round came Hodgkinson who tried to reel in the European champion.
All three athletes hurtled down the final 100m, but with the finish line nearing, time had run out for the challengers as Werro took the win in 1:55.88.
Hodgkinson took second place in 1:56.26 and Broeders-Bol placed third with 1:56.74, with the Briton also revealing she had torn her hamstring at the Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships.
The win concluded an undefeated season in finals for Werro, made even more impressive by the calibre of athletes she is competing against.
It was an all-European top three in the men’s long jump, but the four-time European champion Miltiadis Tentoglou came out on top once again with 8.35m.
However, he didn’t have as comfortable a lead as he did in Birmingham as Bulgaria’s Bozhidar Sarâboyukov improved to 8.34m on his final jump, narrowly missing out on becoming the Ultimate Champion.
Birmingham 2026 silver medallist, Simon Ehammer, completed the top three with his best jump of 8.07m accompanied by three fouls.
The women’s 1500m saw a stacked line up, including Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships gold and silver medallists Georgia Hunter Bell and Klaudia Kazimierska, as well as France’s fourth place finisher Agathe Guillemot.
In an attempt to inflict revenge from Birmingham, Guillemot went out and took control early on with Kazimierska sat neatly behind on her shoulder for much of the race.
But Hunter Bell was in a far from ideal position, as she sat within the pack with a wall of her competitors between her and the leaders.
In the final 200m as the pack surged, with Kazimierska in the lead and Guillemot fading, Hunter Bell almost magically appeared out of the pack and attached herself to the Pole’s shoulder.
The two pushed each other down the final straight, but this time it was Kazimierska who came out on top in 3:57.55, while the Briton finished second in 3:57.72 and Guillemot in eighth.
In the first event of the night, European champion Henriette Jaeger took second place with 49.28 in a very tight 400m final that saw four women run sub 50 seconds and was won by Dominica’s Marileidy Paulino.
Lieke Klaver led off the final bend but as the lactic built, she faded backwards slightly and clocked 49.91 for fourth.
Shortly after, it was another European champion, Matthew Hudson-Smith, who took to the track to place fifth in the men’s 400m in 44.28, while Hungary’s Attila Molnár finished eighth in 45.10.
Angelica Moser equalled her season’s best of 4.85m to take third in the pole vault, while also marking her fifth competition over 4.80m this year.
Slovenia’s Tina Šutej took seventh with a clearance of 4.70m to close out her season.
In the women’s 100m, four-time European champion Amy Hunt ran 11.09 for eighth while Luxembourg’s Patrizia Van der Weken ran just shy of her season’s best with 11.06 for sixth.
Mark English, in his first race since becoming European champion, comfortably qualified for the 800m final which will take place on Sunday.
Italy’s Francesco Pernici, France’s Yanis Meziane, and Belgium’s Eliott Crestan will also join the Irishman in the final.
In the women’s 400m hurdles another European champion, Slovakia’s Emma Zapletalová, eased through her heat to qualify second fastest overall in 52.93, while Belgium’s Pauline Couckuyt ran 53.81 to also qualify for the final.
Later in the night it was the men’s turn to take on the 400m hurdles, with European record holder Karsten Warholm of Norway easing through to qualify third fastest in 47.68.
The rest of the podium from Birmingham 2026 will also be in the final on Sunday, as Germany’s Emil Agyekum ran 47.75 and Türkiye’s İsmail Nezir ran a PB of 48.01.
While in the men’s 100m European champion Romell Glave ran 10.08 to just miss out on making the final, while European 100m silver medallist Jeremiah Azu ran 10.13 and Marcell Jacobs clocked 10.20.
Serbia’s Adriana Vilagoš placed fifth in the women’s javelin with 61.37m after taking bronze in Birmingham, while Latvia’s Anete Sietina placed seventh and Norway’s Sigrid Borge eighth.