Allyson Felix is in the US team for the mixed 4x400m relay. She is going to win gold – her 12th world title and her first since having a baby.
In the mixed 4×400, the United States beat Jamaica and Bahrain to claim the gold medal. Allyson Felix claimed her 12th world gold medal to surpass Usain Bolt’s haul. Martyn Rooney attempted to flash home for Team GB & NI to win bronze, but they lost out. He has a conspiracy theory on the Bahrain team crossing the line when passing the baton so one to watch.
Can this event survive? It was fun but is that enough?
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Asher-Smith speaks! “I’ve worked so hard for this and hopefully I’ll go onto bigger things. I thought ‘this is your time to go’ and I came away with a PB and national record. I’d have loved to win today but Shelly-Anne is an absolute legend and I’m happy. For me it’s always been to stay focused and keep my eye on the prize. I’ve done 100m at a world champs before so it was a new experience for me at this level and I couldn’t have done it without my coaching team.”
She has the 200m to start tomorrow so she’ll be straight off to bed now hoping to go one better!
That was sensational from Fraser-Pryce, who wins this for the fourth time. It was never in doubt from the start really but Asher-Smith did superbly to power through and finish very strongly to come second.
And Dina Asher-Smith takes silver after a superb run! Ta Lou earns bronze.
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Daniels, Ta Lou, Thompson, Fraser-Price, Asher-Smith, Ahoure, Smith. Those are your contenders and they’re set ..
The atmosphere, such as it could ever be, has been whipped up for this. The lights are out, with a spotlight on each competitor as they are announced. Schippers has a groin problem, we’re told, so she will concentrate on the 200m and skip this.
I know this is a running theme but it’s a *vital* one. This should be a blue riband event. It’s been ruined, sacrificed, and for what? You can draw your own conclusions, and athletics is obviously not the only sport to have gone this way. But it’s appalling really.
Yes, he takes it from Claye and Hugues Fabrice Zango, from Burkina Faso, who does superbly to finish with the bronze right at the end. It was never in a lot of doubt and he’s now won four of these.
Christian Taylor leads the way in the triple jump but just 23cm separate the top three, with Will Claye and Pedro Pablo Pichardo pushing hard; it’s going to be very tight here.
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She had one to win it at 4.95 and the neutral athlete does it in style! Morris is second but what a performance that is!
So the remarkable Felix gets her gold. Great Britain were never quite in contention there, the final Bahraini athlete, Abbas, doing a very good job of holding Rooney off in the last 200m.
Jamaica second, Bahrain third and GB, led home by Martyn Rooney, have to settle for fourth. The winning time is 3:09.34.
Poland finish fifth, Belgium sixth, India seventh.
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Felix and company are lining up for the mixed 4x400m final. We have Belgium, Great Britain, Jamaica, US, Brazil, Poland, India and Bahrain in the mix.
Stefanidi is confirmed as bronze medalist in the pole vault. We will have a new world champion – Morris or Sidorova …
Kyle Langford speaks: “I was quicker than anyone in the front straight and people are cutting in each other, the Kenyan cut me up three times and the Moroccan as well. They ruin the racing, you want to keep it clean, it’s so shovey. I should have kept myself out of that danger perhaps. We’ll see what happens, emotions are high right now.”
It was definitely a bit physical in there and at one point he almost fell. He wonders if this gives him a claim to a place in the final, but doesn’t sound overly optimistic.
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Back in the pole vault, Morris *nearly* gets over 4.95 at the first attempt but looks happy enough. She’ll have two more attempts. Sidorova can’t make it either so it’s getting tense …
The third semi of the men’s 800m sees Kyle Langford in the mix, but he can do no better than a slightly scrappy fifth. Tuka is first, Hoppel second, and only those two go through.
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Allyson Felix is in the US team for the mixed 4x400m relay. She is going to win gold – her 12th world title and her first since having a baby.
Morris now goes clear at 4.90 and is *ecstatic* with that – she’s right in the driving seat now!
Here is Bradshaw – she’s going for a lifetime best at 4.90 and here is her moment of truth … but she can’t quite make it and that’s going to be fourth place for her. She’s been really brave tonight and can count herself unlucky.
Jamie Webb now takes part in an 800m semi. He’ll probably need a PB, if he doesn’t make it into the top two, but might he have a chance? In the event he is well beaten; it’s a front two of Brazier and Arop, with Webb ending right at the back.
Now Stefanidi makes it over and Bradshaw will have to get her third one right in a few minutes … but no, she’s passed, she’s going to have a crack at 4.90 instead.
And she’ll stay there, at best, after not quite clearing it again. But there’ll be one more try …
Sandi Morris, visibly and audibly delighted, is the first to clear 4.85m. Newman can’t get near it and nor, really, can Bengtsson on the pole she borrowed after hers broke. Then Sidorova joins Morris out at the front; Bradshaw remains in third.
Now heat one of the men’s 800m semis. Elliot Giles of Great Britain is among the contenders. He starts well and hangs firmly on the tail of the leaders but can’t force his way through a crowd of runners on the last corner and finishes fifth. The guaranteed qualifiers are (1) Vazquez and (2) Rotich.
Defending champion Stefanidi doesn’t make it over either so there really is all to play for at the moment.
Now here’s Bradshaw aiming for 4.85, which would be a new lifetime outdoor best … but she never really catches it and can’t get over first time.
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Nasty moment for Bengtsson there, whose pole snaps as she tries the vault. She flies into the padding and is lucky to avoid injury. But she gets up, tries again … and clears it! That’s a very impressive job.
Newman, the Canadian, matches Bradshaw by clearing 4.80, but she failed earlier at 4.50 so stays below the third-placed Briton. Suhr, the American, doesn’t clear it and is out!
The best of the best will compete in the women’s 100m final a little later on, then. It should be an absolute belter!
Fraser-Pryce, with her multicoloured hair, absolutely destroys it in 10.82. Murielle Ahoure is second, Schippers third and quick enough to qualify for the final. Imani-Lara Lansiquot, the Briton, comes seventh.
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