A British one-two in the 60 metres from Jason Gardener and Craig Pickering (pictured) and a dramatic late gold in the 4x400m relay capped a fine weekend for Britain at the European Indoor Championships.

 

Gardener led from the front to produce a superb run of 6.51sec  to beat compatriot Pickering into second.

 

And Robert Tobin, Dale Garland, Philip Taylor and Steve Green were awarded gold in the 4x400m relay late on.

 

The quartet finished second but winners Germany were disqualified after Bastian Swillims's push on the final lap.

 

Swillims clashed with Artem Sergeyenkov on the final bend, causing the Russian to fall from the front back into third place.

 

That meant Britain moved up into the gold medal position with a time of 3min 07.04sec , with Russia second and Poland third.

 

It took Britain to top of the medal table in Birmingham with 10 medals - four more than the six targeted by UK Athletics performance director Dave Collins.

 

But the highlight of the day was Gardener and Pickering's one-two, which came after two false starts, one of which saw fellow Briton Ryan Scott disqualified.

 

"I had to dig deep and use all my experience to come through it," said Gardener.

 

"I'm delighted with my time, but I'm also pleased for Craig because he has had to deal with a lot of pressure. He deserves this."

 

And Pickering added: "That's an amazing performance from Jason. I don't know where 6.51 came from, but I'm delighted for him. He's had some stick of late, but come through it and shown his class.

 

"As for me, if you'd have offered me a silver medal at the start of the season, I'd have bitten your arm off so I'm happy."

 

Earlier, Martyn Bernard claimed Britain's sixth medal at the Championships as he took the bronze in the high jump.

 

Bernard cleared 2.29 metres at the third attempt to guarantee a medal, behind Swedish pair Stefan Holm (2.34m) and Linus Thornblad (2.32m).

 

He was just one centimetre short of his personal best of 2.30m and he narrowly failed with three attempts at 2.32m.

 

"I'm delighted. I wanted a medal and I've proved myself," said Bernard.

 

"Obviously you want to do the best you can and maybe even win. But I hope to improve on today, build on it as best I can.

 

"I plan to go back to the drawing board a bit now, try to replicate what makes the Swedes successful and train hard at it. I can definitely jump higher."