European Athletics Championships: Day one

Russia's Stanislav Emelyanov checks his time on his way to winning the final of the men's 20km walk. He won in a time of 1hr 20mins 10sec, with an average speed of 9mph, so it's no wonder the TV cameraman needed a motorbike to keep up with him Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

Great Britain's Perri Shakes-Drayton clears the last obstacle in her 400m hurdles heat before powering towards the line to finish second, behind Angela Morosanu, with a time of 55.35sec. Both women are through to tonight's semi-finals Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images

Sweden's Helena Engman prepares to take a throw in the women's shot put qualification round. She made it through to the final where her best throw of 18.11m put her in 7th place. But that was well short of the monster 20.48m throw by Nadzeya Ostapchuk which gave the Belarusian gold Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

Teddy Venel looks up to the scoreboard after his 400m heat. The French runner finished second in a time of 46.18sec putting him through to today's semi-finals Photograph: Pierre-philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

Carolina Kluft launches herself towards the pit in the women's long jump qualifying round. The former heptathlete finished in 7th place with a best of 6.62m and was relieved to make it through to tonight's final Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Mariya Abakumova prepares to throw during qualifying for the javelin. The Russian's best throw of 62.52m put her in second place in her group, behind Christina Obergfoll, and through to Thursday's final Photograph: Juanjo Martin/EPA

Britain's Dwain Chambers celebrates winning his 100m heat with a wink and a smile. France's Christophe Lemaitre recorded the best time of the day, 10.19sec, but Chambers' comfortable win in 10.21sec means the gold medal he craves is still within reach as he heads into tonight's semi-final Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

Great Britain's Jenny Meadows finishes second behind Svetlana Klyuka in their 800m heat. Meadows' compatriot Jemma Simpson won her heat and is also through to Friday's final Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images

Mariya Savinova's painted nails on show after she won her 800m heat by over half a second to qualify for the final Photograph: Andreu Dalmau/EPA

Phillips Idowu qualifies for Thursday's triple jump final with his first attempt, a leap of 17.10m. The Briton's big rival Teddy Tamgho, fouled on his first attempt but then recorded the best leap of the day, 17.37m, setting up what promises to be a memorable contest it the final Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images

Great Britain's Chris Thompson leads the field in the 10,000m final with team-mate Mo Farah on his shoulder Photograph: John Giles/PA

Farah, who talked to competitors during the race and even encouraged them to overtake him, surged forward in the final lap to sprint home with 350m to go and take gold in 28min 24.99sec Photograph: Victor Caivano/AP

Farah's team-mate and friend Chris Thompson managed to hold off the challenge of Daniele Meucci to take the silver medal. Not only was it Team GB's first gold but it was the first ever time that GB have won gold and silver at the European Championships. Farah only stepped up to 10,000m this summer and Thompson has been struggling with injury for the past seven years, so their 20-minute celebration was more than deserved Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

For every winner there has to be a loser and Spain's Ayad Lamdassem seems lost in his thoughts after finishing fourth. He spent the latter stages of the race in a battle with Mo Farah and seemed certain of a silver medal at least, but ran out of steam and was overtaken by two other athletes in the home straight Photograph: Pierre-philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images