Tiffany Porter ...
The adopted Briton from Michigan missed out on bronze in a blanket finish for third place after making a bit of a mess of the final hurdle and falling over the finish line. Nobody was expecting cindy Roleder or Alina Talay to get within an ass’s roar of the podium today, so that’s a huge opportunity lot for Porter. That’s all for today, we’ll be back with more hot, sweaty, gold, silver and bronze medal action tomorrow.
Women's 100m hurdles final result
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Gold: Danielle Williams (Jam) 12.57sec
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Silver: Cindy Roleder (Ger) 12.59sec
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Bronze: Alina Talay (BLR) 12.66sec
DANIELLE WILLIAMS WINS THE 100m HURDLES
She got off to a bad start, but the Jamaican came through to win in fine style in a time of 12.57sec. Cindy Roleder was second and Alina Talay was third. Tiffany Porter was leading and looking a good thing at the halfway point, but had to settle for fifth.
Women's 100m hurdles final ...
It’s our last event of the day and it features Britain’s Tiffany Porter, who runs out of lane 7. Jamaican sisters Danielle and Shermaine Williams run for Jamaica, while Brianna Rollins and Sharika Nelvis represent the USA. Alina Talay is in lane one for Belarus, Noemi Zbaren is in two for Switzerland and Cindy Roleder is in lane eight for Germany.
Shara Proctor pipped to long jump gold despite new British record. By @owen_g http://t.co/WpSUMIyDJ7 (Photo: PA) pic.twitter.com/Ls8Fn8aiaM
— Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) August 28, 2015
Men's 110m hurdles final result
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Gold: Sergey Shubenkov (Rus) 12.98sec
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Silver: Hansie Parchment (Jam) 13.03sec
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Bronze: Aries Merritt (USA) 13.04sec
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A miserable Games for the Russians so far, swamped by doping allegations, but Shubenkov wins 110m hurdles in new NR.
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) August 28, 2015
Men's 110m hurdles ...
Two times European champion Sergey Shubenkov wins for Russia in a time of 12.98sec. Hansie Parchment is second for Jamaica in 13.03sec and Aries Merritt comes third for the USA in 13.04sec.
Men's 110m hurdles final ...
Aries Merritt from the USA is running in this race, then going home to have a kidney transplant. What are you doing today, eh? Eh? The eight competitors are being introduced to the crowd and will be off very shortly.
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Women's 200m final result ...
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Gold: Dafne Schippers (Ned) 21.63sec
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Silver: Elaine Thompson (Jam) 21.66
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Bronze: Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jam) 21.97
Women's 200m final ...
That was a remarkable run from Dafne Schippers, formerly a heptathlete. Only two women in history have run a faster time than her: Marion Jones and Florence Griffith Joyner, one of whom is a self-confessed cheat and the other who died with question marks over her. Dina Asher Smith gave a fine account of herself in one of the fastest races in history, finishing fifth in a new British record time of 22.07sec.
Tianna Bartoletta wins the long jump ...
The American wins gold with her final jump, after Shara Proctor fails to post a distance with her final jump.
- Gold: Tianna Bartoletta (USA) 7m 14cm
- Silver: Shara Proctor (GB) 7m 07cm
- Bronze: Ivana Spanovic (Srb) 7m 01cm
Women's long jump ...
Ivana Spanovic stays in third, equalling her previous effort of 7m 01cm.
Women's long jump final ...
Tianna Bartoletta has just jumped 7m 14cm for the USA with her final jump! She leaps into the lead, relegating Shara Proctor to second place with one jump left with which to regain her lead.
Women's 200m final ...
Dafne Schippers wins in 21.63 seconds for the Netherlands to set a new championship record and move fourth on the all time list. Elaine Thompson of Jamaica was second. Veronica Campbell-Brown was third. More on that later ...
Meanwhile in the men's decathlon ...
Olympic champion Ashton Eaton is cock-a-hoop after recording a time of exactly 45 seconds for the 400m. It’s the best time in any decathlon anywhere, ever. There’ll be no catching him in these championships.
Lorraine Ugen takes her final jump ...
Sadly, she makes something of a dog’s breakfast of it with a big foul. The Briton remains in fifth.
They're almost ready to go in the women's 200m ...
It’s going to clash with the last round of the women’s long jump, which is a bit of a nuisance.
Women's long jump ...
We’re well into the penultimate round of jumps and Tianna Bartolett, currently in third place, jumps 6m 94sec. In second place, Ivana Spanovic jumps 6m 98cm - no improvement for her. Shara Proctor remains in the lead and is up next - It’s an enormous leap, but it’s a foul. She jumped from nine centimetres in front of the board.
Women's long jump ...
Shara Proctor breaks seven metres once again, recording 7m 01cm with her fourth jump. She remains in the lead with two to go. On BBC television, Katarina J-T seems in reasonably good spirits as she discusses “one of the worst weeks of my life”. She says she gave the long jump “my all” - I’m not so sure she did. She seemed to have the handbrake on.
Women's long jump current standings ...
- Shara Proctor (GB) 7m 07cm
- Ivana Spanovic (Srb) 7m 01cm
- TIanna Bartoletta (USA) 6m 95cm
- Christabel Nettey (Can) 6m 95cm
- Lorraine Ugen (GB) 6m 85cm
- Malaika Mihambo (Ger) 6m 79cm
- Khadi Sagnia (GB) 6m 78cm
- Janay Deloach Soukup (USA) 6m 67cm
Women's long jump: round four
Lorraine Ugen fouls on her fourth attempt after jumping from beyond the board and stays in fourth place. Canada’s Christabel Nettey gets no height in her fourth jump and fails to improve on her first round distance of 6m 95sec. She’s currently in fifth.
Women's long jump ...
Shara Proctor’s just put in an enormous jump for Great Britain: 7m 07cm!!! The white flag goes up and she’s in the lead at the end of the third round. She doesn’t look delighted, so much as stunned. She leads going into round four, from Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic in second with 7m 01ccm. Because she’s out in front after three rounds, she’ll get the final jump of the competition. Lorraine Ugen will join her in the final three rounds.
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson
After ruining her chances in the heptathlon with three no-jumps, Katarina Johnson-Thompson appeared to approach this competition with far too much caution, which is a terrible shame, because those who know more about the sport than I do (ie pretty much everybody) say her potential to be a good long jumper is enormous.
Women's long jump: third round
Lorraine Ugen takes her third jump, but fails to match or beat her first effort of 6m 85cm. Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes her third jump, but it’s a poor 6m 63cm. Katarina Johnson is out of the long jump.
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Women's long jump ...
Shara Proctor fouled in the first round, but rectifies the situation in the second. It was a close one, but she jumps into fourth place with a jump of 6m 87sec.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson takes her second jump ...
Having leaped from way behind the board in her first jump, the Scouser takes off from way behind it with her second. That’s a shame: no jump. Event leader Ivana Spanovic takes her second jump and it’s a no jump for her either. KJT is ninth after two rounds, but only eight athletes will make it through to round four - her next effort will need to be decent.
A couple more Brit updates ...
Charlie Grice booked his place in the final of the 1500m, coming fourth in his semi in 3:35.58, but Chris O’Hare went out, while Goldie Sayers failed to qualify for the javelin final.
Chris O'Hare out of the 1,500m
With the second semi-final being far quicker than the first, any faint hope O’Hare had of scraping into the final as one of the fastest losers has evaporated. He’s not happy either.
“I felt good at the bell, felt fine until 100m to go but my last 50m was rubbish,” he told the BBC. “I am really disappointed, I wanted to do a lot better than that. It’s horrible to come here and run like a donkey. It is a big year next year and hopefully I can run better than that.”
Women's long jump ...
Lorraine Ugen records her first score of the competition in the second round, jumping 6m 85cm.
Men's 1,500m semi-final II
Charlie Grice of Great Britain finishes in fourth place to book his place in the final.
Some news from earlier ...
Tiffany Porter stormed into the final of the 100 metres hurdles at the World Championships in Beijing as two of her medal rivals crashed out. The American-born 28-year-old won her semi-final convincingly in 12.62 seconds after American medal hope Kendra Harrison was disqualified for a false start.
The Briton’s podium chances had already improved with Harrison’s team-mate Dawn Harper Nelson, one of the contenders for gold, crashing out in the first semi, falling to the track after clattering the second hurdle. But Porter’s younger sister Cindy Ofili, 21, went out, finishing sixth in her race in 12.91secs.
Women's long jump ...
Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic leaps a massive 7m 01cm, the first woman to break seven metres in this final. That’s a personal best by three centimetres.
Men's 1,500m final
Tough luck for Chris O’Hare, who looks a good 1,470m prospect, should such an event be introduced. He was in second place coming around the final bend, but got swallowed up by four or five members of the chasing posse in the final few metres. He looks disgusted, falling to his knees as he crossed the line before punching the track.
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Men's 1,500m semi-final
Chris O’Hare runs for Great Britain in this, so we’ll keep an eye on how he gets on. He needs a very big race today, as six athletes in the field have run faster than him.
Women's long jump ...
Canada’s Christabel Nettey posts a big jump of 6m 95cm with her first jump, just four centimetres shy of her personal best. Katarina Johnson-Thompson is next up and posts an extremely cautious 6m 63cm.
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Women's long jump final ...
The competitors are being introduced to the crowd in the Bird’s Nest stadium, withy Katarina Johnson-Thompson looking nice and relaxed. Lorraine Ugen is first up for Great Britain and smiles ruefully as she climbs out of the pit after a foul jump. It was a big jump but she hit the board.
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Greetings sports fans ...
After yesterday’s Segway propelled tomfoolery, today’s action from Beijing will need to be a bit special if it is to create a similar media storm. Here’s today’s order of business ...
- 12.50 (BST): Women’s long jump final
- 12.55 (BST): Men’s 1,500 semi-final
- 13.20 (BST): Men’s 400m decathlon
- 13.25 (BST): Women’s javelin qualifier
- 14.00 (BST) Women’s 200m final
- 14.20 (BST) Men’s 110m hurdle final
- 14.35 (BST) Women’s 100m hurdles final
Brit-watch: Great Britain has three finalists in the women’s long jump: Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor. In the 200m final, 19-year-old Londoner Dina Asher-Smith runs from lane four. Tiffasny Porter will run in the women’s 100m final, while Charlie Grice and Chris O’Hare participate in different men’s 1,500m semi-finals.
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