Meadows claims bronze

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Meadows looked out of contention for most of the race but produced a storming finish to snatch third on the line in a new personal best of one minute 57.93 seconds.

South Africa's Caster Semenya, the subject of an official investigation into her gender, powered to victory in 1min 55.45secs, more than a second quicker than her previous best and the fastest time in the world this year.

Kenya's Janeth Jepkosgei took silver, more than two seconds behind Semenya but just 0.03s ahead of Meadows, with Britain's Marilyn Okoro back in eighth place.

Meadows' time makes her the third fastest British athlete of all time behind double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes and Kirsty Wade.

Meadows, who felt she had made a "pig's ear" of her semi-final when a similar late burst was needed to qualify, said: "I'm absolutely thrilled.

"I could tell I had a medal, I couldn't tell if it was silver or bronze and I didn't want to celebrate.

"I'm quite gutted I didn't get the silver really but a medal's a medal and if someone had told me that I would win bronze two weeks ago I would have grabbed their hand off.

"This year I've trained quite a lot psychologically, I used to get to finals and look at all the other girls and what they were doing. I knew I was really fit and healthy and the only thing that let me down was my head went.

"I was really strong, I didn't panic, I didn't want to be at the front and my strength has become my strength."