European Games 2023: Caden Cunningham and Ross Haslam lead golden day for Great Britain

Ross Haslam became a European Games golden medallist

Great Britain had their champion time yet astatine the 2023 European Games with 3 golden medals and 2 bronze successful Poland.

There were diving golds arsenic Desharne Bent-Ashmeil and Amy Rollinson triumphed successful the women's synchronised 3m springboard and Ross Haslam won the men's 1m springboard.

Seonaid McIntosh landed shooting bronze, arsenic did the pairing of Amber Rutter and Ben Llewellin.

World grounds holder McIntosh finished 3rd successful the women's 50m three-position rifle, portion satellite champions Rutter and Llewellin came 3rd successful the skeet mixed squad event.

Bent-Ashmeil and Rollinson provided arguably Team GB's astir melodramatic medal of the day, winning golden with their past of 5 routines arsenic they finished connected 279.90 points, 3 points wide of Germany.

"I had country astatine the opening of this season, past Desharne and I person some had ankle issues to adhd to that, truthful the information we person built backmost up from not doing thing to a European rubric is amazing," said Rollinson.

The brace sat eighth aft their opening regular and Bent-Ashmeil said: "We had a small spot of a rocky commencement but we persevered and kept our caput down and tried our best."

Haslam, meanwhile, was consistently awesome crossed the rounds to unafraid archetypal spot successful the men's idiosyncratic lawsuit with 422.95 points, good up of Frenchman Alexis Jandard successful 2nd with 411.50.

"I can't truly judge it - aft Saturday's 3m I was truly disappointed and I won't lie, it was lone astatine lunchtime contiguous I started to consciousness a spot better," said 25-year-old Haslam.

In the taekwondo events, Cunningham bushed North Macedonia's Dejan Georgievski to scoop gold, but treble Olympic medallist Bianca Cook mislaid to Bulgaria's Kalina Boyadzhieva successful the women's +73 kg bronze medal contest.

"This is thing I've been moving towards for a while," said Cunningham aft his success. "I've known my level, I'm backmost from wounded present - 2 competitions successful a row, 2 golds, and I don't mean for that to change."

On the shooting range, McIntosh changeable 406.5 to decorativeness third, conscionable 3.5 points down the apical spot, portion Rutter and Llewellin took bronze aft being narrowly pipped to a spot successful the last by the Italians, who won gold.

Team GB are competing crossed 18 Olympic sports astatine the multi-disciplinary European Games, which formally began past Wednesday and decorativeness connected Sunday, with qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games successful Paris connected the enactment successful 10 events.

The sixth time astatine the Games besides marked the archetypal clip successful past that Team GB person competed successful breaking, with B-Boy Kid Karam making it done to Tuesday's quarter-finals.

Monday's performances lifted Great Britain 4 places to sixth successful the Games medal array with six days of the contention remaining.