Coe and Britain revel in night to remember

London Games chairman Sebastian Coe hailed a golden night at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday as his country’s greatest for athletics.

Britain won three gold medals in one athletics session for the first time in Olympic history as Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farah delighted a capacity crowd of 80,000 with three triumphs in the space of 45 minutes.

After three golds in rowing and cycling on ‘Super Saturday’, the host nation’s athletics stars got in on the action as poster girl Ennis won the heptathlon.