EILIDH Child laid the demons of her individual pain to rest as she led out the British 4x400metre women's relay team to bronze at the World Athletics Championships.

Child had ended up fifth in the 400m hurdles final on Thursday but was a key figure in the British quartet along with Shana Cox, Margaret Adeoye and newly-crowned world 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu.

The Russian team edged out USA for the gold in front of a vociferous home support in the Luzhniki Stadium while Ohuruogu never looked threatened to grab the team bronze in a time of 3:22.61 minutes, a season's best for the foursome.

And Child was all smiles after claiming her first-ever global title with a 2014 campaign to prepare for that will include a Commonwealth Games in her native Scotland.

"This definitely makes up for missing out in the 400m hurdles. After that I was unhappy with the race but to finish fifth was great," she said.

"And to have this as a second chance was fantastic so I gave it my all and I am so happy to come away with a world medal, it feels amazing.

"It has given me so much confidence now and I can go away, rest up and get ready for the Commonwealth Games. I cannot wait. I'm just delighted that we could come home with something."

Elsewhere, Chris O'Hare's maiden World Championships 1500m final ended in disappointment as he finished last.

The Scot's time of 3:46.04 minutes was almost 10 seconds off the winner, Kenyan Asbel Kiprop, and also almost seven behind second-from-last Florian Carvalho from France.

And O'Hare, 22, admitted that failing to show the world what he is really all about will live with him for some time.

"It just wasn't my day," he said. "I came into it really quite confident, thinking that if I run a good race I could come away with something.

"But to be honest if I was last in the race but still in it with 100m to go that would have been easier to take than to be that far back.

"It is hard when you are searching for those gears and they are not there, it is horrible and it is like everyone is shouting at you to sit down and shut up because there is no point.

"All that is going through my head right now is that I have missed an opportunity to really perform and show the world what I have got.

"To learn from these races you have to have a disappointment and all the guys who were up there have had their experience, been hammered and come back."

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