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Great Britain and Northern Ireland failed to win a gold medal at a World Athletics Championships for the first time in 22 years, as they secured their joint-lowest overall return since 2005.<\/b><\/p>\n
GB ended the nine-day competition with a total of five medals, level with their 2019 tally in Doha, while they last won fewer 20 years ago in Helsinki – where they finished with three.<\/p>\n
Great Britain head coach Paula Dunn told BBC Sport that the aim for Tokyo was to win five to eight medals – but no target was set for a medal table finish.<\/p>\n
The 64-strong British squad finished 21st in the medal table.<\/p>\n
The team’s fortunes were summed up in the event which provided their final medal opportunity in Japan, as the women’s 4x100m relay quartet – winners of Olympic silver last year – finished two-tenths of a second off the podium.<\/p>\n
That confirmed Great Britain would fail to win a relay medal, of any colour, for the first time since Paris in 2003.<\/p>\n
That was also the last occasion they finished without a gold.<\/p>\n
It comes after the team equalled their best haul of 10 medals to finish seventh at the previous World Championships two years ago.<\/p>\n
On that occasion, they brought home two gold medals, three silvers and five bronze from Budapest.<\/p>\n
They also achieved GB’s best return at an Olympics for 40 years with 10 athletics medals at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the championships, Dunn said: “Definitely a mixed bag. Five medals which is good and I’m pleased to see, and some missed opportunities.<\/p>\n
“So it’s time for us to go back sit down with the coaches and athletes, reflect and do a review and see how we move forward.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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