The men complete qualifying for Saturday evening's discus final, though German Marcus Muench doesn't make the cut, far behind leader and compatriot Robert Harting's 66.93m throw
Disaster for Great Britain's 4x100m relay team as, yet again, a poor baton handover sees them out of the competition in the first round, for which the heartbroken Mark Lewis-Francis shoulders the blame
Likewise, the women's sprint relay team fail to qualify from their heat following a poor baton exchange and questions begin about the team's preparation for the event
There are no problems for the 4x400m men's relay team who win their heat in 3:04.09 but they will face faster qualifiers in the Belgian and German teams in Sunday's final
The women's 4x400m team are through as well, second in their heat, third-fastest going in to the final, but a long way behind the 3:26.89 set by Russia
British medal hopes are very much alive as Jessica Ennis leads the women's heptathlon, but her long jump of 6.43m gives ground to Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska, with only the javelin and 800m to go
Zivile Balciunaite takes the lead in the women's marathon with 10km left and finishes the course - including the Avenue Diagonale and the Columbus statue - in 2:31.14 to win Lithuania's first ever European marathon gold
In to the evening session and Ennis throws a new personal best javelin of 46.71m but Dobrynska's 49.25m puts the Ukranian within 18 points of the Briton with only 800m left to run
On the podium in the Olympic Stadium, Barcelona, it silver and bronze for Germany's Silke Spiegelburg (l), Lisa Ryzih (r) with Russia's Svetalana Feofanova taking the gold medal in the women's pole vault
Also collecting medals are Britons Michael Bingham (silver) and Martyn Rooney (bronze) for the men's 400m, two of the 10 medals British men have won so far, with Kevin Borlee of Belgium taking gold in 45.08
There's upset in the semi of the women's 100m hurdles as the fancied Alina Talai of Belarus hits the final barrier, Norwegian Christina Vukicevic beside her qualifying in second place behind Russian Tatyana Dektyareva
Maris Urtans of Latvia may be unlucky not to make the podium, 0.2cm short of shot put bronze, but Poland's Tomasz Majewski is 0.02cm short of gold which goes to Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus
With so many injuries in the men's 800m recently, there's a sense that Mark Rimmer can add to Britain's medals but one man in fine form is Poland's Marcin Lewandowski who takes gold from Rimmer in a time of 1:47.07
Unbounded delight for Myriam Soumare who wins the women's 200m final having not even been her nation's fastest or favourite for the race behind Lina Jacques-Sebastien and Veronique Mang
It's not just a British one-two in the men's 400m hurdles final, it's a Welsh gold and silver, with Swansea Harriers' David Greene clear first in 48.12 ahead of Bath-based training partner Rhys Williams
Ennis ends a tough two days in Barcelona by winning the 800m to add European gold medal to her world title from last year
Mo Farah completes an outstanding evening for Great Britain with a dominant finish to the 5,000m, winning his second gold of the Championships
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