Nice Britain and Northern Eire didn’t win a gold medal at a World Athletics Championships for the primary time in 22 years, as they secured their joint-lowest total return since 2005.
GB ended the nine-day competitors with a complete of 5 medals, degree with their 2019 tally in Doha, whereas they final received fewer 20 years in the past in Helsinki – the place they completed with three.
Nice Britain head coach Paula Dunn advised BBC Sport that the purpose for Tokyo was to win 5 to eight medals – however no goal was set for a medal desk end.
The 64-strong British squad completed twenty first within the medal desk.
The group’s fortunes had been summed up within the occasion which supplied their closing medal alternative in Japan, as the ladies’s 4x100m relay quartet – winners of Olympic silver final yr – completed two-tenths of a second off the rostrum.
That confirmed Nice Britain would fail to win a relay medal, of any color, for the primary time since Paris in 2003.
That was additionally the final event they completed with out a gold.
It comes after the group equalled their greatest haul of 10 medals to complete seventh on the earlier World Championships two years in the past.
On that event, they introduced house two gold medals, three silvers and 5 bronze from Budapest.
In addition they achieved GB’s greatest return at an Olympics for 40 years with 10 athletics medals at Paris 2024.
Reflecting on the championships, Dunn mentioned: “Undoubtedly a combined bag. 5 medals which is nice and I am happy to see, and a few missed alternatives.
“So it is time for us to return sit down with the coaches and athletes, replicate and do a overview and see how we transfer ahead.”
