Great Britain’s women claimed Olympic 4x100m relay silver before the men’s team took bronze in two thrilling races at a rain-sodden Stade de France.
Dina Asher-Smith, Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita had two tricky changeovers, but Neita was superb on the anchor leg.
She almost overhauled 100m silver medallist Sha’Carri Richardson down the final straight, but the American dipped over the line first.
Zharnel Hughes then starred for the men on the anchor leg, running a superb final few metres to secure a medal for the quartet of Hughes, Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
Team GB took advantage of the United States – without Covid-hit 100m champion Noah Lyles – being disqualified for a faulty first changeover.
Earlier on Friday, with pre-Games medal favourite Jake Wightman out with a hamstring injury, it looked like Team GB would be without a representative in the men’s 800m final after Ben Pattison and Elliot Giles failed to qualify.
However, Max Burgin, going in the last semi-final, pulled off a personal best of one minute 43.50 seconds to finish third and go through as one of the two next fastest.