“I’m not going to go away disappointed,” said Turner. “I finished my career where I wanted to be and that is on the track. I didn’t want Achilles problems to determine the end. It sits well with me. There’s not a next time but I’m cool with that.”
GB captain Goldie Sayers could not find the inspiration that her team speech has given to others and finished a disappointing eighth in the javelin final.
Sayers endured 18 months of injury and three bouts of surgery after rupturing her elbow tendon at London 2012, and with that experience in mind had urged her team-mates to perform as if it were the last time they would ever compete.
But she struggled with her run-up, a third round of 58.33 almost four metres down on her season’s best as double Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova snatched gold from Tatjana Jelaca with her penultimate throw of 64.41m.
“That was just incredibly frustrating,” said Sayers. “I didn’t have a big throw in me today – if I did, I didn’t get it out.
“My arm feels as good as it has ever been – that to me just shows the lack of throws in my training over the last 12 months.”
Britain still leads the medal table with four golds in their total of eight medals, and have further chances of success on Friday when Adam Gemili and three British women go in the 200m finals, Christine Ohuruogu and three men compete in the 400m finals and Hannah England and Laura Weightman contest the women’s 1500m final.