After ending second behind Ingebrigtsen within the 5,000m finally summer time’s out of doors championships in Rome, Mills as soon as once more needed to accept silver behind the Norwegian, who has now received 16 European titles throughout all surfaces and championships.
Ingebrigtsen surged in entrance with two-and-a-half laps to go and though Mills made a courageous try and sustain, the Briton light within the final 100m.
“I assumed 400m was a bit early for Jakob to defend and I assumed I might get him on the ultimate straight, however he pulled away,” Mills informed BBC Sport.
“Something much less [than silver] and I might have been actually disenchanted.”
Mills’ father, former England footballer Danny, mentioned watching from the sidelines was “like watching a penalty shootout time and time once more”.
“I’ve received sore arms once more from banging the boards. It is robust, however he gave it completely all the pieces,” he added.
Courtney-Bryant improved on the bronze medals from every of her earlier two European Indoors, however admitted she was “gutted” to overlook out on gold.
“I went onerous down the again straight and felt I had one other gear,” she mentioned. “However then my legs simply went beneath me. However Sarah ran very well, I’m actually glad for her.”
Courtney-Bryant’s GB team-mates Hannah Nuttall and Innes Fitzgerald completed sixth and eighth respectively.
Alex Haydock-Wilson, Efekemo Okoro, Joshua Faulds and Alastair Chalmers ran a season’s finest 3:05.49 however might solely end fourth within the males’s 4x400m relay behind the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium.
Morgan Lake completed fifth within the ladies’s excessive leap, whereas Amy Hunt completed sixth within the ladies’s 60m.
Britain completed third within the medal desk two years in the past and wanted no less than yet one more gold to have any likelihood of matching that.
However their last place of seventh means they’ve completed outdoors the highest three within the total medal standings for the primary time in seven editions of the European Indoors.
The group received three golds amongst six medals total in 2023, however title-winners Keely Hodgkinson, Laura Muir and Jazmin Sawyers had been all absent this time round.
Georgia Hunter Bell got here in as GB’s large hope of gold however suffered enormous disappointment within the ladies’s 1500m last, whereas world indoor pole vault champion Molly Caudery was a late damage withdrawal.