Amy Hunt recovered from her typically slow start and blitzed the field to take women's 100m glory at the European Athletics Championships. The delight on her face shortly after she crossed the line in precisely 11 seconds, and as she did laps of honour around Birmingham's Alexander Stadium, proved just how much a first senior individual gold medal meant to the 24-year-old.
Add it to the silver medal at last month's Commonwealth Games, the shock silver over 200m at last year's World Championship and a slew of relay medals – including Olympic silver in the 4x100m at Paris 2024 – and the University of Cambridge graduate is cementing herself as a star of British athletics.
Hunt has an engaging personality and natural charisma, a willingness to speak her mind on a number of topics and, most importantly, is really, really, really fast, with an ability to deliver on the biggest stage. She is incredibly marketable and getting the crowds through the door to watch her go head to head with fellow British stars Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita for continental gold should have been an easy sell.
Amy Hunt cemented herself as a star of British athletics with a brilliant European gold (PA Wire)
However, there were swathes of empty seats as she took glory (Getty)

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