THAT’S JUST MARVEL-OUS
EILIDH DOYLE was Captain Marvel as she helped the Brits sign off on a high at the World Championships with a stunning silver in the 4x400 relay.
With fellow Scot Zoey Clark also in the line-up along with Laviai Nielsen and Emily Diamond, the hosts held off Poland down the home straight as the USA ran away to gold.
It made it a fourth world gong for Doyle and with the men landing relay bronze in the last event, the hosts hit their medal target of six by the skin of their teeth after a Super Saturday that saw 4x100 gold for the guys and silver for the girls on top of Mo Farah’s 5000 metres silver.
But Clark, 22, played her part as she ran the lead leg in a thrilling final.
And with a British title to boot in 2017, the young Aberdonian’s summer has been the stuff of dreams.
Their male colleagues didn’t let the side down as Martyn Rooney, Rabah Yousif, Dwayne Cowan and surprise inclusion Matt Hudson- Smith followed Trinidad & Tobago and the USA onto the podium.
Laura Muir reckons her best is still to come after signing off with sixth place in the 5000m.
The 24-year-old, who was fourth in the 1500m last week, ran a personal best of 14:52.07 with Eilish McColgan just behind in 10th.
The Dundee Hawkhill duo were no match for runaway duo Hellen Obiri of Kenya and Ethiopian’s Almaz Ayana who surged to gold and silver.
But Muir said: “I knew I had a lot of rounds in my legs so I had to pace myself and stay strong. I showed that over the last lap.
“To finish the way I did makes me happy. The African girls are so strong so I’m pleased with how I ran.”
McColgan was caught cold by the slow early pace but reckons she’s now among the big guns.
She said: “What I did in Monaco and then here is a world apart from what I’ve been doing over the past five years. It’s exciting. I’m definitely progressing in the right way but I’d like to have been a bit closer.”
It wasn’t even in the ballpark for Chris O’Hare and Lynsey Sharp as the Edinburgh duo saw their dreams turn into a nightmare as both Scots trailed in dead last.
O’Hare, fancied for a medal in the 1500m, was way off the mark with two laps left. It ended as a Kenyan 1-2 with Elijah Manangoi pipping Tim Cheruiyot.
O’Hare said: “Getting last place in the final is crap and it’s a s*** place to be. I’m far from happy. There’s no point in being in the final if you’re going to be last.”
Sharp had nothing left as the 800m final heated up and was out of the reckoning in eighth as South Africa’s Caster Semenya defended her title.
She said: “It’s disappointing, I’m in the best physical shape I’ve been. Mentally I didn’t have it.”
Robbie Grabarz was sixth in the high jump as Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim struck gold.