Amy Hunt's Sprint Treble Lights Up Birmingham as Great Britain Sweep the Relays

Amy Hunt won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, completing a treble that no woman had managed since Dina Asher-Smith in 2018.

The 100m gold was Hunt's first senior individual international title. The 200m was the race that stopped the stadium: Hunt fended off Rhasidat Adeleke and Asher-Smith — Britain's own world champion over the distance and the British record-holder at both 100m and 200m — to take the crown (European Athletics). Asher-Smith, who has amassed 22 senior international medals since her debut in the 4x100m squad at the 2013 World Championships, had to settle for silver (BBC Sport).

For Hunt, a Cambridge University graduate, the treble was almost a quadruple. She had spoken openly about chasing an "iconic" four golds across the championship programme. Three out of four, on home soil, is still a defining breakthrough for a sprinter whose previous best was world silver in Tokyo in 2025 — her first individual global medal.

The relays turned Birmingham's closing night into a British celebration. Great Britain won both the men's and women's 4x100m titles. The women's quartet of Dina Asher-Smith, Desiree Henry, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita took gold, with Hunt collecting her third medal of the championships on the anchor leg. The British men had qualified fastest for their final and delivered when it mattered (European Athletics). Spain, by contrast, saw their relay hopes crumble in both finals — fumbled final changeovers ending their chances in the women's and men's races alike.

Away from the sprints, Sweden's Andreas Almgren produced the standout endurance performance of the championship. He won the 10,000m in 27:23.44, a championship record that broke the longest-standing mark on the books — a record that had survived generations of distance runners before Almgren finally ran it down (European Athletics).

What makes this championship memorable is the changing of the guard it captures. Asher-Smith, the last athlete to complete a European sprint treble, stood on the podium beside the woman who matched her feat eight years later. Hunt is 23. Her range across both sprint distances and the relay, her composure against established champions, and her willingness to name her ambitions out loud — the "iconic four" — mark her as the next headline act of British sprinting.

Birmingham's championship delivered a home crowd something to roar about. Three British relay golds, a sprint treble, and a championship record that had waited decades to fall.