British sprinter Amy Hunt stormed to 100-metre gold on the first day of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
The 24-year-old beat defending champion and compatriot Dina Asher-Smith, who finished fifth in Monday night's final, just after Great Britain secured their first medal of the championships with silver in the mixed 4x400m relay.
Hunt, who completed an English Literature at Cambridge University in 2023, crossed the line in exactly 11 seconds, two hundredths of a second faster than Poland's Ewa Swoboda, while Belgium's Delphine Nkansa rounded out the podium.
The Brit had made a name for herself by claiming 200m silver at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last year. She backed that success up with Commonwealth 100m silver in July.
Hunt revealed she had a "big premonition" she would win on home soil on the European Athletics Championships' opening night, heralding it as a "coming of age" moment.
Referencing a song from the film 'High School Musical', she said: "I want it all, and I think I'm someone who doesn't shy away from what she knows she can do. I knew I could come away with a gold coming into the day.
"I had such a big premonition, and I just love my job. This is what makes it the best.
"I just had such a magical feeling. I've won English Schools here, I've raced here as a kind of 13, 14-year-old, so, this is really my track. I'm a girl, I'm from Newark, so I just had a feeling that this was going to be my night.
"My first gold. I think it was definitely time for an upgrade. I think this was definitely a coming of age for me here tonight, and I'm now kind of fully established.
"I'm a 100m medallist, I've got two 100m medals in the last two weeks, and one more sub-11 to boot. I'm very, very happy."
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Hunt has the chance to add to her European tally in the 200m and both the women's and the men's mixed 4x100m relays later this week.
Elsewhere, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen provided the evening's other major highlight, marking his comeback from an 11-month layoff with an astonishing 5,000m gold.
The two-time Olympic and world champion had won three successive European 1500/5,000m doubles, but went under the knife in February to resolve an ongoing Achilles issue and only announced his intention to compete in Birmingham at the end of July.
"I dreamt of this moment two weeks ago, when I put my name on the list," he said on track. "I was crossing my fingers hoping to feel a little bit better every day, and it was just enough, so I'm extremely happy."
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