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Georgia Hunter Bell’s glorious summer continues to take her to fresh summits. She was simply sublime again as she destroyed a decent European 1500m field to add yet another gold medal to her swelling collection.

As expected, it was a slow and tactical race. But in the last lap burn up, Hunter Bell truly ignited. Her time of 58.44secs for the last 400m left her 10 metres clear as she crossed the line in 4:07.78. As she did so she applauded herself for a job well done.

“That last 150 is always my favourite part of the race,” said Hunter Bell, who has now won 1500m gold at the world indoor championships in March, the 800m at the Commonwealth Games last month, and the European title. “And it was really nice to come down the home stretch and know that I had it.

“It’s so special, another gold this year. I am really hoping to make it four in September,” she said, talking about her appearance at the Ultimate Championships in Budapest.

“There is still a lot left of the season,” she added. “I haven’t done a paced 800m yet, I have one coming up with the speedy girls. I am really excited to throw my hat into the ring there.

“I had a bit of fomo last night when I saw them on the podium. It’s such an exciting time. I am really happy.”

Just over a second behind her was Klaudia Kazimierska of Poland, while Patricia Silva of Portugal took a surprise bronze.

On what turned into a great night for Britain, Jazmin Sawyers produced an exceptional performance in the long jump to silver against a high-quality field.

Sawyers’ leap of 6.99m was an outdoor best, and all the more impressive given that she suffered a serious Achilles injury a year ago. But she was a tantalising one centimetre short of Larissa Iapichino of Italy, who jumped seven metres. France’s Hilary Kpatcha finished with a leap of 6.98m.

Another silver for Britain quickly followed in the women’s 4x400m behind a Netherlands team anchored by Femke Broeders-Bol.

As seven days of action in Birmingham came to an end, Jack Buckner, the chief executive of UK Athletics, hailed the European Championships as a huge success and said this sport had cut through into the mainstream.

Buckner said that he was ­particularly pleased that Friday night’s epic 800m final starring Keely Hodgkinson, Audrey Werro and Broeders-Bol, had attracted around four million viewers on BBC One.

“Everyone is absolutely delighted with the BBC numbers,” he said. “I heard it was 3.8m but that was without iPlayer. So they’ve been talking over four million on Friday night, which is really strong. So we are absolutely delighted and everyone is buzzing.

“This is a big sport that cuts through with big stars and that’s what we want. We want big heroes and big names doing amazing things.”

“Another star emerged here in Amy Hunt, which is fantastic for the sport,” Buckner said. “Keely, in the way she conducts herself and the way she ­handles herself, is a role model. And then you look at all of them in the 4x100m relays and you just go ‘that’s what we want this country to be’. I think they’re brilliant and just the most fantastic role models.”

Buckner also hinted that Britain was tempted to bid again in the near future, with the rebuilt stadium at Crystal Palace a potential option.

“It’s been absolutely fantastic,” he said. “We loved doing it. We learn a lot. We think we could do it better and we’re going to do it again.

“The sport needs a big stage and it needs big stars. And if we can deliver the stage and support the athletes to deliver the stars, then the sport gets to where we want it to be.”

Buckner also defended the struggles with ticket sales at the start of the week and said that UKA had sold nearly three-quarters of all tickets in the 23,000-capacity Alexander Stadium.

“In the buildup we did work with schools and we did work with community groups, and overall we’ve sold 73% of the tickets,” he said. “I think we’ve done a world-class job with ticketing, but the expectation in this country is higher than that.

“In any other country in the world, if they’ve delivered that result in ticket­ing, they’d have been jumping up and down with excitement. But our expectations are higher and we’re OK with that. We’ve sold out the last four days so it’s been a world-class ­ticketing result but we want better.”