After ending second behind Ingebrigtsen within the 5,000m finally summer time’s out of doors championships in Rome, Mills as soon as once more needed to accept silver behind the Norwegian, who has now received 16 European titles throughout all surfaces and championships.
Ingebrigtsen surged in entrance with two-and-a-half laps to go and though Mills made a courageous try and sustain, the Briton pale within the final 100m.
“I assumed 400m was a bit early for Jakob to defend and I assumed I may get him on the ultimate straight, however he pulled away,” Mills advised BBC Sport.
“Something much less [than silver] and I’d have been actually dissatisfied.”
Mills’ father, former England footballer Danny, mentioned watching from the sidelines was “like watching a penalty shootout time and time once more”.
“I’ve bought sore arms once more from banging the boards. It is powerful, however he gave it completely all the things,” he added.
Courtney-Bryant improved on the bronze medals from every of her earlier two European Indoors, however admitted she was “gutted” to overlook out on gold.
“I went exhausting down the again straight and felt I had one other gear,” she mentioned. “However then my legs simply went beneath me. However Sarah ran very well, I’m actually completely happy for her.”
Courtney-Bryant’s GB team-mates Hannah Nuttall and Innes Fitzgerald completed sixth and eighth respectively.
Alex Haydock-Wilson, Efekemo Okoro, Joshua Faulds and Alastair Chalmers ran a season’s finest 3:05.49 however may solely end fourth within the males’s 4x400m relay behind the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium.
Morgan Lake completed fifth within the girls’s excessive bounce, whereas Amy Hunt completed sixth within the girls’s 60m.
Britain completed third within the medal desk two years in the past and wanted at the least yet one more gold to have any probability of matching that.
However their ultimate place of seventh means they’ve completed outdoors the highest three within the general medal standings for the primary time in seven editions of the European Indoors.
The workforce received three golds amongst six medals general in 2023, however title-winners Keely Hodgkinson, Laura Muir and Jazmin Sawyers have been all absent this time round.
Georgia Hunter Bell got here in as GB’s massive hope of gold however suffered big disappointment within the girls’s 1500m ultimate, whereas world indoor pole vault champion Molly Caudery was a late damage withdrawal.
