German sprinter Verena Sailer produced the race of her life to win 100m gold at the European championships after a photo-finish with France’s Veronique Mang on Thursday.The event saw the surprise elimination of the fastest woman in Europe this season, Belarus’s Alena Neumiarzhytskaya, in the first round of qualifying, and then Britain’s Laura Turner, not far behind with a time of 11.11sec, was knocked out in the semi-finals.It set the stage for Sailer, who won the German national championships and set a European medal as her goal for the season.

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