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Nice Britain’s quartet of Tom Dean, Matt Richards, Anna Hopkin and Freya Anderson claimed silver within the blended 4x100m freestyle relay on the European Aquatics Championships.
Anderson produced an excellent remaining leg to safe a medal as France took the title in three minutes 22.80 seconds.
Britain completed 0.5secs behind in 3:23.30 as Sweden clinched the bronze forward of Italy.
It’s a fifth medal in Rome for Anderson.
The 21-year-old, a member of GB’s victorious 4x100m medley workforce at Tokyo 2020, has additionally received girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay gold, silver in each the 200m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay, in addition to 100m freestyle bronze on the championships.
In the meantime, Hopkin, 26, took her third medal, having additionally received blended 4x100m medley relay bronze along with success within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle.
Dean and Richards added to the bronze they received within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay.
Sweden and Italy had held the lead going into the ultimate leg – however solely sixth-placed the Netherlands’ Marrit Steenbergen (52.90) recorded a quicker time than Anderson (53.03) within the remaining 100m.
It’s an eleventh medal for Britain on the European Aquatics Championships.
Earlier on Monday, Keanna MacInnes completed seventh within the girls’s 100m butterfly remaining, which was received by Sweden’s Louise Hansson.
Elsewhere, Romania’s 17-year-old David Popovici adopted up the world file he set within the males’s 100m freestyle on Saturday with a brand new junior file of 1:42.97 to win the lads’s 200m freestyle.
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