Terrific Britain and Northern Ireland stopped working to win a gold medal at a World Sports Championships for the first time in 22 years.
GB finished the nine-day competition with a total of 5 medals, which represented their joint-lowest overall return since Helsinki in 2005, when they won 3.
The team’s lot of money were summarized in case which provided their final medal opportunity in Japan, as the females’s 4 x 100 m relay quartet – victors of Olympic silver in 2015 – finished two-tenths of a 2nd off the podium.
That verified Great Britain would fail to win a relay medal, of any kind of colour, for the very first time since Paris in 2003
That was likewise the last event they finished without a gold.
The 64 -solid British squad finished 21 st.
It comes after the team equalled their ideal haul of 10 medals to complete 7th at the previous World Champions two years ago.
On that occasion, they earned 2 gold medals, three silvers and five bronze from Budapest.
They also attained GB’s finest return at an Olympics for 40 years with 10 sports medals at Paris 2024
Reviewing the championships, Great Britain head train Paula Dunn informed BBC Sporting activity: “Definitely a mixed bag. 5 medals which is good and I’m pleased to see, and some missed out on possibilities.
“So it’s time for us to return take a seat with the instructors and athletes, show and do a review and see just how we move forward.”