Lewis-Francis celebrates Britain's first gold of the Europeans

Britain finished with 11 medals, but Russia topped the medal table with 34 after dominating all week.

Italy's Stefano Baldini won marathon gold with a late breakaway.

The GB women's sprint relay and men's 4x400m teams both won silvers, while Mo Farah won a fantastic 5,000m silver and Sam Ellis fought to 800m bronze.

Replay: Men's 4x100m relay

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Replay: Men's 800m final

DAY SEVEN ACTION (all times BST)

Men's marathon Men's 800m Men's 4x100m relay Women's 4x100m relay Men's pole vault Women's javelin

Women's long jump Women's 1500m Women's 4x400m relay Men's 5000m Men's 4x400m relay

The leading group went through 10km with Stefano Baldini and Julio Rey both looking comfortable.

Britain's trio of Dan Robinson, Huw Lobb and Peter Riley were about 30 seconds off the pace.

Portugal's Luis Novo then made a breakaway just after 15km and stretched his lead to about 20 seconds before Switzerland's Viktor Rothlin chased him down and joined him in the lead.

Rothlin pushed on and went through 20km alone, with Robinson back in 15th.

The Briton was a minute faster at 20km than he had ever been before, and worked his way back to the lead group at 25km - with Rothlin now back in the pack.

That main group then split to leave just five men at the front, including Baldini, Rey, Rothlin and Francesco Ingargiola.

Rothlin and Baldini pulled away on their own at 35km with Rey dropping back and Robinson a further two minutes back.

Baldini made a decisive move within two kilometres to go. Rothlin could not stay with him, and the Italian Olympic champion went away to take gold in 2 hours 11 minutes 32 seconds.

Rothlin took silver, 18 seconds back, with Rey in third and Robinson 16th.

Robinson said: "I'm pretty disappointed - I didn't run a clever race tactically.

"A minute slower at halfway and I think I could have finished in the top 12. But that last lap was a real struggle - it's a harsh learning curve."

Britain's Sam Ellis barged his way through to take bronze in the final few strides behind Dutchman Bram Som and Luxembourg's David Fiegen.

Ellis appeared to be out of it with 30 metres to go but somehow found a way through in 1 mins 46.64 secs - and was only a metre off taking a shock win.

Ellis said: "I'm over the moon at the moment. If the gap had opened up one metre earlier I would have got gold.

"In the back of my mind I didn't think I would get a medal but with a bit of positive thinking, things can happen."

Britain's Michael Rimmer found himself buffeted back into eighth.

He said: "I don't know what happened - someone pushed me. We needed this big time and took our opportunities first time round and hopefully we can go from strength to strength."

The British quartet of Dwain Chambers, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis won GB's first gold medal of the championships with a controlled display.

Lewis-Francis brought the baton home ahead of Poland and France to take the win in 38.91secs.

But the celebrations were marred when Campbell refused to join the lap of honour and left the stadium alone.

Joice Maduaka's brilliant final leg anchored Britain's team to a shock silver behind clear favourites Russia.

The team of Anyika Onuora, Emma Ania, Emily Freeman and Maduaka performed to their optimum to finish in 43.51secs while France, Germany and Belgium all failed to get the baton round.

Belarus took bronze after Maduaka overhauled Aksana Drahun over the final 50m.

Maduaka said: "I could see the Belarussian and I thought I could get her, but I had to be patient.

"We knew we had something special and just had to do what we needed to do."

Poland's Przemyslaw Czerwinski led at 5.60m, with nine other men clear at 5.50m.

But Israel's Alex Averbukh became the only third pole vaulter to retain a European title with a vault of 5.70m in very difficult conditions.

Germany's Tim Lobinger was disappointed with 5.65m for silver, with France's Romain Mesnil in bronze at the same height.

Germany's Steffi Nerius nailed a season's best throw of 65.82m in the fourth round to take gold.

The Czech Republic's Barbora Spotakova took silver with 65.64m after the first three rounds, with Spain's Mercedes Chilla in bronze with 61.98m.

Britain's Goldie Sayers went out after managing just 54.70m.

Russia's Lyudmila Kolchanova won gold with her third-round effort of 6.93m as the jumpers struggled with wet and windy conditions in the Ullevi Stadium.

Portugal's Naide Gomes took silver with 6.79 with Oksana Udmurtova third with 6.69m.

Heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft finished sixth with 6.54m.

Tatyana Tomashova came past her Russian compatriot Yuliya Chizhenko in the home straight to win European gold in a championship record time.

Chizhenko led all the way from the gun but could not hold off the fast-finishing Tomashova.

Yelena Soboleva took bronze, with Britain's Helen Clitheroe struggling in 11th.

Britain's women were disappointed to finish fourth in a final won by red-hot favourites Russia from Belarus and Poland.

The quartet of Lee McConnell, Emma Duck, Marilyn Okoro and Nicola Sanders were tipped for silver, but McConnell struggled badly on the opening leg and the team never recovered.

McConnell said: "I'm not really sure what happened on my leg - it was a poor first leg unfortunately."

Sanders said: "I knew I had lot to do. I did my best to chase them down but I didn't have enough strength to chase them down. I'm pretty gutted, to be honest."

Britain's 23-year-old Mo Farah ran the best race of his life to win silver behind Spain's Jesus Espana, with Juan Carlos Higuero third.

Farah went to the front with 800m to go and burned off all but Espana, who battled past him on the home straight.

Farah said: "I wanted to win and it was close. I gave it all I could and saw a gap.

"I tried but it wasn't enough. I've worked hard and it is paying off slowly - hopefully we'll be back at the top like Brendan Foster and Steve Cram."

Tim Benjamin overcame a deficit of eight metres on Poland's Daniel Dabrowski to win Britain a silver medal in the final event of the championships.

The quartet of Robert Tobin, Rhys Williams, Graham Hedman and Benjamin were unable to keep Britain's 20-year unbeaten record in this event going, but the silver was a good reward.

France took gold with Poland in bronze.

Benjamin said: "I was determined to get something from the championships - I was determined not to come away empty-handed.

"I really battled to the line -there was no way I was not going to get a medal.

"It's awesome - these guys did a great job, and I'm chuffed we got another medal for Britain."