An England quartet of Andy Baddeley, Ricky Stevenson, Nick McCormick and Mark Draper smashed the 30-year-old UK 4x1, 500m relay record in finishing fifth in 14:54.57 to erase the previous mark by two seconds.

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British 800m champion Michael Rimmer, 400m man Martin Rooney and Andy Baddeley over 1500m also have outside shots of gold, while sprint hurdlers Andy Turner and Will Sharman are two of the four men separated at the top of the European rankings by just five hundredths of a second.

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