It's a slow start to this race, and the field is bunched up.

Britain's George Mills is leading the pack.

Two laps in, Etienne Dagunios of France is the early leader.

The favourites, including Ingebrigtsen, keeping their powder dry for now.

That seventh European title for Sandra Elkasevic is looking ever more likely.

She is 2.5 metres ahead of the field after four throws, while her most likely competitor - European leader Marike Steinacker of Germany - is out after three awful throws leave her dead last and missing the cut.

As well as George Mills, there is British interest here from James West and Jack Rowe.

Can one of these men win the first GB & NI medal of these championships?

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George Mills competes for GB & NI in the men's 5000m this evening. Through his father, he knows all about what it takes to represent your country at the highest level.

His dad is former England footballer Danny Mills, and George says the man who represented England at the 2002 World Cup has given him tools needed to succeed on the track.

"Discipline and focus," Mills told BBC Look North about what his dad taught him about sport. "The sporting background is normal to me as I saw it growing up. It is what I think is normal life."

Mills is representing Britain in both the 1500m and 5k at these championships, and is aiming for medals in both.

"You come into the Championships to win medals and that is what I am aiming for – we will see what happens on the track!" he said.

As for the Olympics, Mills is not short of ambition.

"Compete in the 1500m and the 5k – the Olympics is every four years, so you want to spend as much time racing there," he said. "That would be the ideal situation.

"I feel like I have got the tools to compete with the best guys out there."

The finals don't stop coming.

The men's 5,000m is about to commence, with 27 finalists.

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the red-hot favourite.

That is Italy's fourth gold medal in the opening two days of these championships. No other country has more than one.

Extraordinary.

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Another one!

Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli delivers for this ecstatic Roman crowd, with a new Italian record of 13.05 seconds. Just 0.03 short of Colin Jackson's competition record.

Spain's Enrique Llopis takes silver, with bronze going to Jason Joseph of Switzerland.

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Athletics commentator on BBC iPlayer

We have had an awful lot of false starts tonight. I wonder if it’s this big, enthusiastic but perhaps not particularly experienced crowd gathered around the blocks and the start area. There’s just been too many. It’s bizarre.

The hurdles are back up, the men are back in their blocks.

Take two...

The great Sandra Elkasevic continues to lead the field in the women's discus final after three throws.

Can anyone stop the Croat winning a seventh European crown?

Nope, false start.

It was another late one, most of the field were at the second hurdle.

Anyway, back to the blocks we go.

Here we go...

European number one Jason Joseph of Switzerland is the favourite, but Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli set a new Italian record in the semi-final.

With this noisy home crowd behind him, could Simonelli scoop Italy's fourth gold of the finals?

Another final now, it's the men's hurdles.

No British contenders in this one.

A third gold medal for host nation Italy. What a party they are having in Rome.

Leonardo Fabbri has smoked the competition, taking gold with a competition record of 22.45 metres.

Filip Mihaljevic of Croatia gets silver, with Poland's Michal Haratyk scooping bronze.

Confirmation of that stunning victory for French athlete Cyrena Samba-Mayela, who clocked 12.31 seconds to break a 38-year Championship record.

It's another fourth place for the British team, as Cindy Sember just misses out on the podium.

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There's no British medal in the shot put either.

Scott Lincoln cannot improve with his final throw, his best of 20.88m leaves him in fourth place.

That's the third fourth-place finish for Britain this evening - in the women's 100m hurdles, the men's shot put, and the men's long jump earlier.

The worst position. So near, yet so far.

Ditaji Kambundji of Switzerland take silver in a new European under-23 record of 12.40 seconds.

Poland's Pia Skrzyszowska, the champion two years ago, has to settle for bronze this time, she ran 12.42secs.

Ireland's Sarah Lavin finished seventh.

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Extraordinary from France's Cyrena Samba-Myela. She wins in a championship record of 12.31 seconds - that breaks a record which has stood since 1986.

Cindy Sember ran a season-best of 12.56 seconds, but she comes up just short in a powerful field.

The British wait for a medal goes on...