Live text commentary from day three of European Indoor Championships in Turin

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Welcome back to Turin for the final of action at the European Indoor Championships

As expected Great Britain's Mo Farah claimed 3000m gold yesterday, while Dwain Chambers is odds on to follow suit in the 60m today.

The big question remains, having clock 6.42 seconds yesterday, while the controversial sprinter beat Maurice Greene's world record.

Jenny Meadows and Marilyn Okoro go for gold in the 800m with, all going well, a number of British medals on the cards

By GERARD MEAGHER

17:15: That brings us to the end of the European Indoor Championships in Turin. To recap, that's four British medals - two gold, and two silver, too many fourth place British finishes, ten Russian gold medals, no world records and, without doubt, only one Dwain Chambers. 

17:10: Confirmaton that Steve Lewis finishes fourth. An excellent display from the Loughborough-based youngster. GB finish with a flurry.

"I was really aiming to reach the final so to do that was fantastic," said Lewis. "Hopefully I've shown today that In years to come I can go on and be one of the best in Europe at least."

17:01: To the sandpit now and GB's Greg Rutherford finishes in a below-par sixth with a best of eight metres exactly. Fireworks to end the competition though as Germany's Sebastian Bayer leaps to an enormous 8.71m. Only Carl Lewis has gone further indoors.

16:51: 80 metres to go and Taylor looks like he's finished. He storms back but Italian individual silver medallist Claudio Licciardello comes from nowhere and has the crowd on their feet as Italy take gold. An excellent silver for GB though.

"I wanted to just give it everything and leave everything on the track," said Taylor. "But at the end of the day it wasn't quite enough. We have to be happy with silver though."

16:50: Youngster Nigel Levine goes third but a superb run from the 19-year-old and Phil Taylor will bring GB home.

16:49: He passes on to Nick Leavy who does well to maintain the lead ahead of close attention from the Russians.

16:48: The last track event to go now and it's the men's 4x400m relay. Richard Buck leads out GB strongly he comes home first after leg one. 

16:35: Women's 4x400m relay and Marilyn Okoro is back on the track. Decent runs from Donna Fraser and Kim Wall are followed by a fantastic third run from Vicky Barr which puts Okoro in the lead going into the last lap.

She won't win because she's up against Russia's Antonina Krivoshapka who took the individual gold medal but an excellent run from Okoro as GB take silver.

"I was pretty down after my 800m so I really wanted to go out there and prove that I am actually a good athlete," said Okoro.

16:26: Oh no! It's fourth for Williamson - there's a familiar feeling to these fourth-place finishes. Still another gold for GB so not all doom and gloom.

"I'm really very disappointeds with that," said Williamson. "If I'm honest I thought I had that."

16:23: It'll be a photo-finish to see if Williamson gets a bronze. Pickering was fifth in 6.61 secs - not good enough

"I came here saying that if I didn't get a medal it would be a disaster," said Pickering. "So I guess it's a disaster."

16:22: They're off this time, and Dwain Chambers blitzes his way to gold. 6.46 secs - not a world record but far too quick for anyone else nonetheless.

16:20: Simeon Williamson false-starts - nearly jumping out of his skin - he's obviously nervous. 

16:18: Chambers vs. Williamson vs. Pickering is just minutes away!

16:14: Yevgeniya Polyakova wins Russia's women's seventh gold medal of the tournament and the nations' ninth overall. No-one else has more than two.

Polyakova clocks a seasons best 7.18 secs, with Norway's Ezinne Okparaebo and Verena Sailer of Germany taking silver and bronze respectively.

16:10: Women's 60m final now, not long until the men's 60m hopefully brings us Brits some much-needed cheer.

16:08: Steve Lewis will not get a medal I'm afraid. He fails three attempts at 5.76m and the best he can finish is fourth.

16:01: Relay update - Marilyn Okoro will go in the relay despite for not-so graceful swan dive over the line in the 800m. Good for her.

15:53: Not this time for Speaighty - he's last.

"I just strong enough out there today," said Speaight. "It was a tough race and tough conditions but I just wasn't good enough."

The decline of middle-distance running by British men really is disappointing. Steve Cram and Lord Coe would be turning in their graves if they were dead! 

Portugal's Rui Silva takes gold, while silver and bronze go to Spain's Diego Ruiz and France' Yoann Kowal respectively.

If Portugal finish above Great Britain in the medals table I for one will be cross. That reminds me, according to the Independent on Sunday, Usain Bolt is to give everyone's favourite Portugoose Christiano Ronaldo sprinting lessons - i hope he likes his nuggets 

15:46: Up next on track is Neil Speaight for GB in the 1500m, while Greg Rutherford will be in action in the sandpit shortly.

15:45: Pole vault update - GB's Steve Lewis is currently in bronze medal position, having cleared 5.70m at his first attempt.

15:40: Wooton comes a solid if unspectacular ninth but there is good news for our Irish friends, Mary Cullen shows shades of long-distance great Sonia O'Sullivan to take bronze.

Gold goes to Turkey's (yes Turkey's) Almitu Bekele Degfa with Portugal's Sara Moreira takes silver.

15:32: Women's 3000m on now and Katrina Wooton flying the flag for GB, Ireland's Mary Cullen could well produce a medal though

15:25: Big high jump news - World Champion Blanka Vlasic of Croatia has crashed out with just four competitors left now.

15:15: The men's 800m up now and it's Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy who wraps up the gold medal in slight less dramatic fashion that his female compatriot. Silve belongs to Spain's Luis Alberto Marco while Sweden's Mattias Claesson claims bronze.

The Brits conspicuous by their absence. 

15:08: Gold went to Russia's Mariya Savinova in 1:58.10 minutes the fastest time in the world this year.Silver to compatriot Oksana Zbrozhek, while Italy's Elisa Cusma Piccione takes bronze.

Okoro got it all wrong there - back to the drawing board for the gospel singer. The 18-year wait for an 800m medal continues.

15:06: Okoro has been reeled in by another Russian and she loses out on bronze just before the line - having slipped into fourth, she falls a metre from the line as Jenny Meadows takes fourth.

"I'm pretty gutted," said Meadows. "It was a whirlwind and the race tactics just go out of the window - fourth is the worst place to finsih really but at least it's an improvement on fifth two years ago."

15:05 Okoro and Russian Mariya Savinova have raced clear of the pack but chan they keep it going?

15:03: The 800m up now and Marilyn Okoro goes off like a rocket!

14:47: Mikk Pahapill takes gold! A matter of time before the Estonia follows in compatriot Erkie Nool and takes Olympic gold. Veteran Roman Sebrle takes a creditable bronze and Oleksiy Kasyanov holds into silver.  

14:44: The heptathlon final is under way and the Czech Republic's three-time champion Roman Sebrle gets the biggest cheer. Mikk Pahapill has a 19 second advantage.

14:34: GB's Steve Lewis will get his pole vault campaign any minute now.

14:32: In the men's shot put Poland's Tomasz Majewski puts down an early marker by being the first competitor to go over 20 metres, very early stages yet though. 

14:28: Russia's Anastasiya-Potapova sets the early pace in the long jump - she has leapt out to 14.51m in her first jump but will probably have to go further if she's to win gold.   

14:24: Heptathlon update - Estonia's Mikk Pahapill is leading the way with just 1000m to go. He could probably walk the first few laps and still take gold, courtesy of his 192-point lead over Ukraine's Oleksiy Kasyanov. 

14:19: Little Mo Farah is parading around the arena, medal in tow, wearing a broader smile than the River Po (that's the main river that runs through Turin, not a lavatorial typo!)

14:15: Some timings for you - Meadows and Okoro are up at 15:00, while Chambers, Simeon Williamson and Craig Pickering could chalk up a British 1-2-3 at 17:20.

14:09: The first track final due up is the 800m women's final - scheduled for 15:00 GMT - but there's plenty of action in the field events to sink your teeth into.

In the 800m, Great Britain have huge hopes of at least one medal, provided Marilyn Okoro and Jenny Meadows don't embroil themselves in too much one-upmanship. 

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