Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford starred as Great Britain ended a record-breaking European Championships with a flourish, topping the medal table after winning five golds on an incredible last day.

The British team will return home from Zurich with 23 medals following six wonderful days of athletics at the Stadion Letzigrund.

That haul surpasses the previous record of 19 from Barcelona four years ago, while the 12 golds blew away the previous best of nine set in Budapest in 1998.

There were eight British medals in all on the final day, five of which were podium-topping displays as the team finished top of the medal list for just the third time in the championships' history.

The men's 4x400 metres relay team got the ball rolling in the Swiss sun, before London 2012 stars Farah and Rutherford triumphed either side of the men's 4x100m team.

Asha Phillip, Ashleigh Nelson, Jodie Williams and Desiree Henry added a fifth gold of a wonderful Sunday for the British team, romping to victory in the women's sprint relay in 42.24 seconds - breaking the national record in the process.

"It was an incredibly special Sunday," British Athletics performance director Neil Black said.

"To see Mo flying around the track after all that stuff was brilliant; to see the relays converting and the girls setting a British record and to understand the effort, the pain, the trials and tribulations behind that to get these guys, to get these guys slick, has not been easy.

"They should be really happy and enjoy it for a few hours, for a few days and just think 'we smashed it'."

Scotland's Eilidh Child - silver medallist in the Commonwealth Games 400m hurdles - helped the women's 4x400m team land bronze.

As expected, individual world champion Christine Ohuruogu was left out in preference of the less experienced members of the team and they did not disappoint.

Child, fresh from winning 400m hurdles gold on Saturday, handed the baton over in the lead after the first leg, with Kelly Massey not fretting when she dropped down the pack as Shana Cox also got the baton in first place.

Margaret Adeoye ran a fine last leg but was unable to sneak a top-two place, with France edging Ukraine to the line in a European-leading time of 3:24.27.