Great Britain’s Morgan Lake completed a fabulous six days in Eugene by winning her second gold medal on the final afternoon of the IAAF World Junior Championships.
And as Lake triumphed in the high jump on Sunday, there was delight, too, for Latvia's Gatis Cakss in the javelin with a dramatic victory with his last throw. Both events brought European cleansweeps.
Lake, 17, has had quite a week, having first won gold in the heptathlon during which her high jump of 1.94m was a British junior record.
This time a clearance of 1.93m brought her victory - though she did try going beyond the British senior record of 1.95m but missed out on her three attempts at 1.97m.
In second, Michaela Hruba, 16, of the Czech Republic, cleared 1.91m for a national junior record and in third with 1.88m was Irina Ilieva, 18, from Russia.
It has been another stunning example of Lake’s potential in a competition where she had only one foul - at 1.85m - on her way towards the mark which won her the event. She then fouled on her first attempt at 1.93m before going over second time having cleared 1.78m, 1.82m, 1.88m and 1.91m.
Her double success left her ecstatic. 'I still can’t really get over it,' said Lake, speaking to British Athletics. 'I was hoping to get one medal and maybe another in two years time but to win two medals here, I am really happy.'
Next stop for Lake will be the European Athletics Championships in Zurich which are just 15 days away where she will probably be looking for that British senior high jump record again.
Going into the last round of the men’s javelin, Slovenia’s Matija Muhar, 18, led with his second effort of 72.97m from Moldova’s World Youth champion Andrian Mardare, 19, who had achieved 72.81m with his first effort.
As for Cakss, he was back in fourth with 70.89m behind Germany’s Jonas Bonewit on 71.62m but then everything changed.
Even though Cakss had not gone below the 70m mark in all his series, it was not going to be enough but then he delivered a brilliant 74.04m to take victory in the most amazing fashion.
Speaking afterwards, Cakss, who had beaten his old personal best of 73.34m, told the IAAF: 'I only fell asleep at 4am because it was too hot. I still can’t believe it. Even after five bad throws, I still knew I had a big one in me.'
Europe had further individual medal success in the men’s triple jump as Germany’s Max Hess, 18, won silver with a second round personal best of 16.55m as Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez took gold with 17.13m, a championship record, and Mateus De Sa, of Brazil, landed bronze with 16.47m, a national junior record.
Nadine Visser, 19, of the Netherlands, who had finished third behind Lake in the heptathlon, won her second bronze medal of the championships, this time in the 100m hurdles.
And it came in a national junior record time as she finished third in 12.99 behind Americans Kendell Williams, who won in a championship record of 12.89, and Dior Hall, second in 12.92.
Sweden are celebrating a national junior record mark aswell after Andreas Almgren took bronze in the men’s 800m in 1:45.65 in a race won by Alfred Kipketer in 1:43.95 with his Kenyan teammate Joshua Tiampati Masikonde second in 1:45.14.
And after her individual silver in the 400m, Great Britain’s Shona Richards, 18, was back on the second step of the podium after the 4x400m relay.
As the United States Junior won in 3:30.42, Britain Junior followed in 3:32.00 with Germany Junior taking bronze in 3:33.02.
Richards ran the opening leg in a quartet of Loren Bleaken, 18, Sabrina Bakare, 18, and Cheriece Hylton, 17, and she told British Athletics: 'We all believe in ourselves and had the confidence to go out there and do what we did.'
Britain were the leading European nation in the medal table in fourth place with six - three golds, two silvers and a bronze - followed by Russia, also with six - three gold, one silver and two bronzes - and France with their three golds. The United States of America finished top with 21 - 11 golds, five silvers and five bronzes.