And that’s your lot. Cheers for reading today, and indeed every day of the championships. Here’s the final medal table, courtesy of the BBC. Thank you, and good night. Good afternoon. Good morning. Whatever the hell time it is where you are.
So then, that’s that. A quick summary of the medals dished out today:
- Great Britain won bronze both the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay. USA took gold in the men’s, but were pipped at the last by Jamaica for the women’s top prize.
- A surprise in the women’s 5,000m, as Almaz Ayana ran a fantastic race to beat 5,000m champion Genzebe Dibaba.
- Asbel Kiprop took his third straight 1,500m title, beating his Kenyan compatriot Elijah Manangoi.
- Canada’s Derek Drouin won gold in the men’s high jump, while favourite Mutaz Barshim finished fourth.
- A women’s javelin final in which the lead changed hands several times ended with a gold medal for Germany’s Kathrina Molitor, who took the top prize with her final throw of the competition, pipping home favourite Huihui Lyu.
Just to clear up the high jump, Drouin took gold, and Zhang and Bondarenko both get silver medals each. Which is nice.
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Officially Great Britain and Jamaica were given the same time for that. Fine, fine margins. Jevon Francis seriously belted down the back straight and took the lead, but he was too giddy as Merritt cruised past him, as did T&T’s Machel Cedenio, and Rooney dipped on the line.
Gold for USA and bronze for Great Britain in the men's 4x400m relay!
Javon Francis blazed down the back straight but faded badly, the USA won comfortably through Merritt but Martyn Rooney just took Bronze on the line! Trinidad and Tobago took silver.
- Gold: USA (2:57.82)
- Silver: Trinidad and Tobago (2:58.20)
- Bronze: Great Britain (2:58.51)
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The final leg - LaShawn Merritt goes into the lead for USA...
All very even at the first change in the relay. Tony McQuay is in the lead for the USA, Trinidad and Tobago and Britain in third.
Now it’s back to the track, and the closing event of the championships, the men’s 4x400m final. Rabah Yousif leads off for Great Britain.
Gold for Derek Drouin in the high jump!
Zhang crashes into the bar! Drouin wins after the jump-off!
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Bondarenko just takes the bar off. Just. The defending champ is out and it’s now all on Zhang.
Drouin goes clear! Could be a gold-winning jump, with the pressure on Bondarenko and Zhang now.
...and he just knocks it off. We could be here for a while...
...who clips the bar! Here’s Zhang...
A jump-off at 2.36m in the high jump. Drouin fails first up, and it’s defending champion Bondarenko up next...
Jamaicans next to me singing 'Jamaica BOOM!' after that women's 4x400m win. US team were 1-3 favourites so big surprise that ...
— Sean Ingle (@seaningle) August 30, 2015
...but he doesn’t. We’ll have a jump-off for the medals, with Zhang, Derek Drouin and Bohdan Bonarenko all having flawless records until that 2.36m mark, so can’t be separated.
Zhang is the last man, and he can now take the gold with his last jump after Bondarenko and Drouin fail too...
Back on the high jump, nobody has gone over 2.36 yet, and Barshim has failed three times! He’s out! No medal for the favourite!
Gold for the Jamaica in the women's 4x400m relay!
What a comeback! Francena McCororoy was ahead of Novlene Williams-Mills until the last 50m, but she chased her down brilliantly to take it on the line. Seren Bundy-Davies held on to take bronze for Great Britain.
- Gold: Jamaica (3:19.13)
- Silver: USA (3:19.44)
- Bronze: Great Britain (3:23.62)
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Felix chases Jamaica down and the USA are in the lead going into the final leg...GB third.
Anyika Onuora runs well on the second leg for GB but Jamaica are a long way in front. Elidh Child goes third, but she’s against Allyson Felix.
Richards-Ross chases down Ohuruogu, but Jamaica lead through Christine Day at the first handover.
So Christine Ohuorogu will lead off for Great Britain, Sanya Richards-Ross for USA! USA! USA!
It’s the women’s 4x400m final next, and the teams are being introduced like their WWE wrestlers, running through a large door then posing for the cameras. Hmmmm. America should probably waltz this, but you never know with relays.
The high jump final bar is now at 2.36m. Barshim has again failed at his first attempt, but then again nobody has gone over it so far. Five men - Zhang, Drouin, Donald Thomas, Bohdan Bondarenko being the others - are left in, and they’ve all knocked the bar off in their first go.
Gold for Kathrina Molitor in the women's javelin!
Viljoen and Lyu don’t improve their best throw in the final round...but Molitor most certainly does, as the arrow flies to 67.69m and she takes gold with the very last throw!
- Gold: Kathrina Molitor (Germany) - 67.69m
- Silver: Huihui Lyu (China) - 66.13m
- Bronze: Sunette Viljoen (South Africa) - 65.79m
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Charlie Grice came 9th in the 1,500, by the way, in 3:36.21.
The final round of throws in the javelin, with Lyu leading Viljoen and Molitor...
Gold for Asbel Kiprop in the 1,500m!
What a comeback from the Kenyan! He was in a terrible position as they entered the last 200m, but he broke free and fairly hurtled down the final straight to overhaul Taoufik Makhloufi who looked to have it in the bag.
- Gold: Asbel Kiprop (3:34.40)
- Silver: Elijah Manangoi (3:34.63)
- Bronze: Abdalaati Iguider (3:34.67)
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Around halfway in the 1,500, and nobody has really broken clear yet. Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot is in the lead, just.
Crowded old field in the men’s 1,500m final, including Britain’s Charlie Grice. Asbel Kiprop is the defending champion and....they’re off!
A ding-dong tussle in the javelin takes another turn, as Lyu goes back into the lead with an Asian record throw of 66.13m.
Decibel level gets louder as home favourite Huihui Lyu takes the lead in the women's javelin with a new national record.
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) August 30, 2015
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Incidentally, if you fancy an alternative news organ to the Guardian or Observer, the Sunday Sport has a scoop this morning...
James May lookalike's sex bonanza. Only in today's @thesundaysport pic.twitter.com/w91ssB8TQy
— Sunday Sport (@thesundaysport) August 30, 2015
Opponents of silly personal grooming will be delighted to learn that Gianmarco ‘Half-Beard’ Tamberi has failed thrice at 2.29m in the high jump and will now be marched to a barber. Or is just out of the competition. One of the two.
More movement in the javelin, as Viljoen takes the top spot with a throw of 65.79m.
That record, incidentally, beats the mark by Genzebe Dibaba’s sister, Tirunesh.
Gold for Almaz Ayana in the women's 5,000m!
A turn up for the books and no mistake, as the Ethiopian absolutely blows away Dibaba, who finishes way, way back and is even pipped to silver by Senbere Teferi.
It was a championship record time of 14:26.83. Britain’s Steph Twell came 12th.
- Gold: Almaz Ayana (14:26.83)
- Silver: Senbere Teferi (14:44.07)
- Bronze: Genzebe Dibaba (14:44.14)
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Ayana has made a significant move now, and with 1,000m to go she’s about 50m ahead! Dibaba will probably have to get in a car to close this lead in the last couple of laps.
Barshim is now over at 2.29m in the high jump, with Derek Drouin and Daniil Tsyplakov joining Zhang in clearing that height at the first try.
Ayana has made a move at around the halfway mark in the 5,000m, taking over the lead and breaking for the front. Dibaba goes with her, as did Kenya’s Mercy Cherono initially, but the front two are stretching their lead now. Twell is back in 12th at this stage.
More changes in the javelin final - Lyu has bettered Obergföll’s throw, but she’s almost immediately overtaken by German Kathrina Molitor. The top three is now:
1) Molitor (Germany) - 64.74
2) Lyu (China) - 64.72
3) Obergföll (Germany) - 64.61
We’re at just gone 1km in the 5,000m final, and Japanese pair Onishi and Suzuki are in the lead, but Dibaba and Almaz Ayana are nestled just behind them.
Interestingly, Barshim has recorded his first foul, knocking the bar off at 2.29m. Zhang goes over and celebrates flamboyantly.
Here’s the Great Britain team for the men’s 4x400m relay final later on today.
BREAKING - Men 4x400 Relay Final team: @RYousif400GBR @Delano_Delly @jarryd_dunn @MartynRooney #Beijing2015 pic.twitter.com/7FEQZxMSCz
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 30, 2015
...and the women’s, just before it...
BREAKING - Women's 4x400 Relay Final team: @chrissyohuruogu @annyonuora @EilidhChild @serenbdavies #Beijing2015 pic.twitter.com/0CpOETiSyW
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 30, 2015
Only one man, Konstandínos Baniótis of Greece, has failed at 2.25m in the high jump, and the rest are all taking cracks at 2.29m now.
Ooooh, a new leader in the javelin, as Germany’s Christina Obergföll goes ahead with a throw of 64.61.
Meanwhile...
Tony Hibbert holding a massive fish pic.twitter.com/TWB90ZSr24
— Ftbllrs with Animals (@ftbllrswanimals) August 30, 2015
On the track, the women’s 5,000m is about to start, and 1,500m winner Genzebe Dibaba is going for double gold. Britain’s Steph Twell is also in the final, although it will probably take the rest of them falling over for her to be in with a chance.
Most of the throwers have chucked a second javelin, and the top two - Lingwei Li and Huihui Lyu - didn’t improve on their first attempts but stay in place, while South Africa’s Sunette Viljoen has moved up to third with a throw of 63.09m.
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Everyone’s now taken a crack at 2.25m in the high jump, and nine have gone over first time, including Barshim - who floated over it like a feather - and home favourite Guowei Zhang, who grazed the bar with his buttocks. Tamberi, of the half-beard, is also over.
Everyone’s taken a throw in the women’s javelin final, and here’s the top three as it stands:
1) Lingwei Li (China) - 64.10
2) Huihui Lyu (China) - 63.80
3) Sinta Ozolina (Latvia) - 62.20
In the BBC studio, Gabby Logan is asking the assembled pundits if they’ve ever been to the Great Wall of China. Some of them have, some of them haven’t. More as we get it.
The athletics are underway, but the BBC are showing an interview with Katarina Johnson-Thompson with emotional music instead. Cool. Daley Thompson just said she throws the javelin ‘like a girl’. COOL!
Anyway, Barshim has already gone over 2.20m in the high jump with room to spare, and China’s Lingwei Li has taken the lead in the javelin with a throw of 64.10m.
Australian bowler Mitchell Starc’s brother, Brandon, is in the men’s high jump final, presumably aiming to redeem his family name after the Ashes.
They’re warming up for the high jump now, and while Mutaz Essa Barshim is favourite and the Guardian is of course neutral in all of these things, we can probably all get together and hope that Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi doesn’t win. I mean....look at this.
Still can't get on board with Gianmarco Tamberi's half-and-half beard pic.twitter.com/k6PsCnYxTe
— James Dart (@James_Dart) August 30, 2015
Drizzle in the Bird’s Nest as Donna Prather Williams, granddaughter of Jesse Owens, hands out the medals to the men’s 4x100m relay teams. If you missed it, Canada take bronze (Brendon Rodney suffering an ill-timed sneezing fit as he gets his medal), China get silver and Jamaica, obviously, receive gold. As you probably know Britain didn’t finish and the USA were disqualified.
Let’s have a look at the schedule of events ahead of us today, shall we? Lovely. All times BST.
- 11.30am: Men’s High Jump Final
- 11.45am: Women’s Javelin Throw Final
- 12.15pm: Women’s 5,000m Final
- 12.45pm: Men’s 1500m Final
- 1.05pm: Women’s 4x400m Relay Final
- 1.25pm: Men’s 4x400m Relay Final
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In case you missed it, the Great British men who didn’t finish the 4x100m relay final due to the standard baton clusterflippery, very firmly threw both their coach and CJ Ujah, the man brought in for the anchor leg at the last minute in place of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, under the bus:
Members of the British 4x100m relay team who threw away the chance of a medal with a botched final changeover dramatically turned on British Athletics and each other amid bitter recriminations after the race.
They blamed their coaches for changing the team at the last minute and in the process threatening their livelihoods, accusing them of upsetting a winning quartet by bringing in CJ Ujah in place of Harry Aikines-Aryeetey between the heats and the final.
It was Ujah, running the last leg, who failed to receive the baton from James Ellington. Afterwards, a clearly furious Richard Kilty turned on the management and said that if the team had not been changed they would have won a medal. “It’s just heartbreaking knowing it would have been so easy to get bronze. We ran a lot better in the heat the first three legs. It’s teamwork, individuals don’t make teams,” he said of a race that ended with Jamaica taking gold and the USA also disqualified.
“Last year we were perfect, we were solid. We won everything. That’s what you get for bringing in people who haven’t run. It’s teamwork. It’s not about speed, it’s about coming together as a team.”
Hello. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever the hell time it is where you are. It’s 11.11am in London, the sky is grey, the tea is stewed, and somewhere on the planet a bunch of people already ran a marathon while you were just about coming to terms with a Sunday ahead dealing with a hangover.
The specific marathon in mind was of course in Beijing, where Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba won the women’s race by just one second from Kenya’s Helah Kiprop in 2:27:35. Bahrain’s (Kenya-born) Eunice Kirwa took bronze.
Nick will be here shortly. Meanwhile, read Owen Gibson’s reflection on the championships as they come to a close.
It is still there. Despite the liars and the cheats, the doubts and the doubters. That synapse blitzing moment when an athlete pulls out something unexpected in a major final and the stadium is abuzz amid chatter and flash bulbs.
In the Bird’s Nest, the Dutch flying machine Dafne Schippers did it with the fastest women’s 200m for 17 years and the third fastest ever. Mo Farah did it, his performances perhaps dulled by familiarity but tingling the senses nonetheless. The American Christian Taylor did it with a soaring leap of grace and power in the triple jump.
Julius Yego, the Kenyan javelin thrower who learned his craft on YouTube and had it refined by his Finnish coach, did it with the third longest throw in history. But then the brain kicks in with another nagging, depressing, lurching feeling. It is doubt.
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