Summary
That’s it from the Bird’s Nest for today. Here’s a quick wrap up of the headlines:
- Greg Rutherford won gold in the men’s long jump, becoming the fifth British athlete to hold the Olympic, European, Commonwealth and World titles at the same time.
- David Rudisha took gold in the men’s 800m.
- There was gold for Genzebe Dibaba in the women’s 1500m.
- Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin cruised through in the men’s 200m heats.
- Kenya’s Nicholas Bett took a surprise gold in the men’s 400m hurdles.
- Christine Ohuruogu reached the final of the women’s 400m, along with the favourite Allyson Felix.
- And Denia Caballero won gold in the women’s discus.
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This is how the medals table looks after today’s events:
Here’s the full story of Rutherford’s gold:
Until today only four British athletes had held the Olympic, European, Commonwealth and World titles at the same time. They were: Linford Christie, Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards. Rutherford makes it five. That’s quite some company he’s in.
Rutherford wins gold. The man delivers when it counts.
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) August 25, 2015
And Wang botches run-up, so Rutherford takes the gold!
Gao jumps out to 8.02m – it’s not an improvement. He’ll finish fourth. Only Wang can deny Rutherford the gold now.
Long jump: Lapierre improves to 8.24m but it’s not enough to overhaul Rutherford. Only Gao and Wang to jump …
Rudisha kicks 100m out … and he holds them all off to the line! Rudisha wins gold, Kszczot takes the silver and Tuka comes through to take the bronze just ahead of Rotich.
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Rudisha leads 200m out …
They’re all in a bunch after the first lap, with Tuka bringing up the rear …
The final event on the track today is the men’s 800m. Can Rudisha roll back the years? Will it be Ferguson Rotich beat his countryman? Or will Amel Tuka or Adam Kszczot take gold? Let’s find out.
Australia’s Fabrice Lapierre goes into silver medal position in the long jump with a leap of 8.20m.
If you needed proof of the importance of Henderson’s elimination, the American has three times jumped further than 8.41m this season.
Men’s long jump: Rutherford extends his lead! He goes out to 8.41m, his best this year.
Faith Kipyegon takes silver for Kenya, who are dominating the medals table, and Hassan takes the bronze. Britain’s Laura Muir is fifth in 4.11.48.
Sifan Hassan looks to chase her down but can’t get close. Dibaba wins it in 4min 08.10sec
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It’s down to four as they take the back straight. Dibaba still leads …
Eight athletes are just about holding on to Dibaba as they take the bell …
Lots of jostling. With two laps to go Dibaba puts her foot down …
Women’s 1500m: Next up on the track is the Genzebe Dibaba’s stroll to gold. The first lap is slow: 77 seconds.
In fact the two Chinese athletes in second and third – Wand and Gao Xinglong both look to have gone close to Rutherford’s effort with fouls. There may be some tension still to come for the Olympic champion.
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Men’s long jump: Wang Jianan, the home crowd willing him on, surpasses Rutherford’s mark … but it’s a foul.
Rather like Ennis-Hill the other day Rutherford is delivering when it matters while others crumble around him.
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) August 25, 2015
So it’s gold for Nicholas Bett and Kenya, Denis Kudryavtsev takes silver for Russia and Jeffery Gibson of the Bahamas takes bronze. Clement is 0.01sec outside the medals. The USA are having a disappointing night tonight.
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Kudryavtsev and Tinsley are level 200m out but the American whacks two hurdles and his chance goes. Kudryavtsev leads them down the straight and there’s a line of five athletes neck-and-neck behind him. And out of nowhere on the outside Nicholas Bett comes storming through to win gold for Kenya!
Men’s 400m hurdles: As I mentioned earlier, this is perhaps the most wide open event of the championships on the track. Russia’s Denis Kudryavtsev has run quickest in 2015, but Kenya’s Boniface Tumuti and USA’s Michael Tinsley are right on his heels. Both Kudryavtsev and Tumuti set PBs in the semi-finals. Kerron Clement, the 2007 and 2009 champion, has his best days behind him but could be in the mix.
Long jump: Jinzhe Li, though, has jumped 8.09m. He’ll get three more jumps but the best long jumper of 2015, Jeff Henderson, will not. Barring something very strange, the title is Rutherford’s.
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Long jump: Tyrone Smith has fouled, so Henderson lives on in the long jump.
Men’s 200m: Ramil Guliyev is the fastest qualifer with a time of 20.01sec, with Britain’s Zharnel Hughes third quickest at 20.13sec. Bolt and Gatlin were both taking things very easy, though. Indeed South Africa’s Akani Simbine ran quicker than Bolt but qualifies only as a fastest loser.
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Men’s long jump: Fabrice Lapierre and Sergey Polyanskiy have both gone further than Henderson, pushing the American down to eighth. If Tyrone Smith, Li Jinzhe or Mike Hartfield can jump further than 7.95m then the favourite is out.
Jobodwana wins it from Femi Ogunode and Zhenye Xie third in a Chinese national record. Francis eased down to the line and missed.
A false start! The first of the heats and Ecuador’s Alex Quinonez is the guilty man. He gets the red and black card.
Men’s 200m heat seven: The final heat. Anaso Jobodwana should win this, with Miguel Francis of Antigua another contender.
Women’s discus: Denia Caballero takes the gold for Cuba after her opening throw of 69.28m, Perkovic takes silver and Nadine Muller of Germany is third. Yaime Perez misses out on bronze by 7cm.
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Men’s long jump: More big news here. Jeff Henderson has fouled his third jump. Only the top eight get to jump three more times after the halfway stage and the pre-event favourite is sweating down in sixth with all six athletes below him still to jump in the third round.
Men’s 200m heat six: Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas of Greece powers home in 20.14sec, with Jamaica’s Warren Weir second. Britain’s Daniel Talbot takes the third qualifying spot.
Women’s discus: Sandra Perkovic improves with her final throw to 67.39m but it’s not enough to overhaul Cabellero. So the reigning world and Olympic champion is toppled.
Men’s 200m heat six: The big news here is that Wallace Spearmon, certainly the favourite to win this heat, has withdrawn with a calf tear.
Men’s 200m heat five: Britain’s Zharnel Hughes wins it from the inside lane in 20.13sec, with Julian Forte of Jamaica second and Brendon Rodney of Canada third.
It is. A leap of 8.29m takes him into gold medal position after two jumps.
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Men’s long jump: Rutherford gets a white flag … and this looks good enough to take the lead.
Women’s discus: Perkovic has just fouled on her fifth throw. She stays third and has just one more chance to overhaul Cabellero and defend her title.
Men’s long jump: Wang Jianan has just claimed the outright lead with 8.18m.
Gatlin is a yard or two clear after the bend and cruises home in 20.19sec. The 16-year-old Abdul Hakim Sani Brown zips through on the outside to take second spot in 20.35sec and Bolt’s Jamaican team-mate Nickel Ashmeade is third.
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Men’s 200m heat four: Justin Gatlin is on the blocks.
Men’s long jump: Jeff Henderson gets a legal jump in (he’s about a foot behind the board on take off) and goes fifth with 7.95m. There’s much more to come from him.
The margin of victory for Bolt is just 0.01sec but he had plenty in reserve.
Bolt gives it some oomph around the bend and then almost walks the final 50m. He’s a whisker away from getting caught on the line but he holds on to win in 20.28sec. Roberto Skyers of Cuba takes the second qualifying spot, just ahead of Yancarlos Martínez of the Dominican Republic.
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Men’s 200m heat three: Usain Bolt is up.
Women’s discus: a quick update from the field. After three throws Cuba’s Denia Caballero leads with 69.28m, with Nadine Muller second (65.53m) and Sandra Perkovic struggling a touch in third after just one legal throw of 65.35m.
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Heat two of the men’s 200m: Alonso Edward wins a tight race with a time of 20.11sec, with the Netherlands’ Churandy Martina second and France’s Christophe Lemaitre third.
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Greg Rutherford is next on the runway. He, like Henderson, springs out to well over eight metres but it’s a huge foul. Back to the drawing board.
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Long jump: 18-year-old Jianan Wang of China launches himself to 8.14m to take an early lead.
And Young has had a mare here! The only man to have run under 20 seconds in the race leads off the bend but goes backwards and finishes sixth. Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev powers through to win, with Kenji Fujimitsu of Japan second.
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The first heat of the men’s 200m then. The first three from each heat go through, plus three fastest losers. Isiah Young of the USA should win this one at a canter.
Next on the track are the men’s 200m heats, Bolt, Gatlin et al. And at the long jump pit we’ve got, yes, the men’s long jump final. Jeff Henderson puts in a huge jump with his first effort … but gets the red flag.
The qualifiers for the women’s 400m final:
Britain’s Anyika Onuora ran a personal best of 50.87sec in lane two there but it’s not quite enough to get her through to the final. The fastest losers to get through are Novlene Williams-Mills in that final semi with a time of 50.47sec and the USA’s Phyllis Francis, who ran 50.50sec in the second semi.
Felix purrs through the first 200m like a Rolls Royce and holds off the rest on the home straight. Her time: 49.89sec. Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson is right on her shoulder at the line and those two are definitely in the final.
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Next up, it’s the favourite. Allyson Felix used to dominate the 200m, now she’s the best in the world at this distance. Time to prove it. The best name in the race, though, is provided by Bianca Razor of Romania.
George gets off to a flier, giving Ohuruogu a target to chase. As they come off the final bend that pair and McPherson are clear and Ohuruogu calmly powers through to beat the Jamaican by a stride in a season’s best time of 50.16sec. Francis finishes strongly to pip George for third. Ohuruogu and McPherson reach the final.
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In the next heat, Christine Ohuruogu starts in lane seven, with McPherson in lane six. USA’s Phyllis Francis, Nigeria’s Patience George and France’s Marie Gayot could all be in the mix.
Italy’s Libania Grenot was in fact third in that heat, with Guei fourth. They’ll both have their fingers crossed.
While we wait for Ohuruogu in the next semi, here’s something to keep you occupied. You may remember Greg Rutherford getting rather irked by the British kit for these championships. We invited readers to suggest their own alternatives. Here are the results:
Day has Miller under a bit of pressure 100m out, but Miller cruises through to win oh-so-comfortably in 50.12sec. Day is second. They both go through to the final. France Floria Guei is third and will have to wait for the results from the next two semis.
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First then, to the women’s 400m semi-finals. Heat one is, as is traditional, up first. Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas and Jamaica’s Christine Day are the likely two to go through, with Natasha Hastings pushing them.
Preamble
Hello all. Here’s what is on the agenda in the Bird’s Nest Stadium today.
(All times BST)
12noon Women’s discus final
The reigning Olympic, world and European champion Sandra Perkovic of Croatia starts as favourite, although Cuba’s Denia Caballero has thrown the furthest this year. The gold is between those two, with Yaime Perez is best shape for the bronze.
12.05pm Women’s 400m semi-finals
Three heats, with the first two in each certain of a place in the final plus the fastest two losers. Allyson Felix of the USA, the red hot favourite, goes in the third semi, while Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu should make it through in the second race despite being drawn alongside the fastest qualifier, Jamaica’s Stephenie Ann McPherson. The fastest woman over 400m in the world this year, though, is Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas – she runs in the first heat.
12.25pm Men’s long jump final
This should be a shootout between Britain’s Greg Rutherford and USA’s Jeff Henderson. Henderson is the favourite and in better form than the Olympic champion but it should be a decent battle. The fight for bronze, assuming that pair are out in front, should be interesting too with half a dozen athletes all evenly matched. China’s Li Jinzhe carries home hopes.
12.30pm Men’s 200m heats
Usain Bolt v Justin Gatlin, round two. Well, sort of. There are seven heats with the first three in each going through (plus three fastest losers) so this should be a walk in the park for Bolt, the fastest of all time at this distance who runs in heat three, and his American rival, the fastest this year who is in heat four. For Britain, Zharnel Hughes should make it through in heat five fairly comfortably, while Daniel Talbot faces a tougher test in heat six. In the first two heats, USA’s Isiah Young (heat one) and Panama’s Alonso Edward (heat two) have both run under 20 seconds this year.
1.25pm Men’s 400m hurdles final
Perhaps the most wide open event of the championships on the track. Russia’s Denis Kudryavtsev has run quickest in 2015, but Kenya’s Boniface Tumuti and USA’s Michael Tinsley are right on his heels. Both Kudryavtsev and Tumuti set PBs in the semi-finals. Kerron Clement, the 2007 and 2009 champion, has his best days behind him but could be in the mix. It’s anyone’s race.
1.35pm Women’s 1500m final
If Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia doesn’t win this one, it’ll rank as one of the shocks of the championships. She’s comfortably the class of the field. Britain’s Laura Muir could be in the hunt for the minor medals.
1.55pm Men’s 800m final
David Rudisha produced one of the performances of the London Games in 2012 but injuries since have blunted his dominance. He cruised through the semi-final, though, eliminating the man who beat him to Commonwealth gold in Glasgow last year, Nijel Amos, in the process. Competition will instead come from Amel Tuka, the Bosnian runner who is the fastest in the world this year, and Adam Kszczot, the reigning European champion. Ferguson Rotich of Kenya should also be in the mix.
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