Britain’s heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson ran the fastest 800m race of her life to take Olympic silver while the women’s 4x100m relay team missed out on gold by seven-hundredths of a second after a fumbled final handover.
An electrifying performance in the final 800m run in the seven-event discipline won a first medal at a Games for the 31-year-old double world champion and delivered a moment of joyous redemption after repeated Olympic disappointment.
