Wow. That was a classic race. Farah followed every move and left them all in the home straight. That is a fantastic performance in these conditions, with a 54-second final lap. The Kenyans put on an awesome show to finish second, third and fourth. Rupp just did not have enough left in the end and ended up fifth. It’s gold for Farah, silver for Kamworor and bronze for Tanui. Thanks for your time. We’ll have a report up shortly. Goodbye.
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Mo Farah wins 10,000m gold
On the bell Farah strikes out at the front. Kamworor fights back. Farah looks tired. Tanui is still there. Farah kicks again. The Kenyans cannot hang on. It’s gold for Britain!
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Two laps to go and Farah is prowling menacingly on the shoulder of the leader Kamworor. But the front five cannot be split, and the athletes they are lapping are causing some confusion. Farah is biding his time.
Farah and Rupp are now all alone with the Kenyan trio, and the Briton momentarily hits the front. Kamworor has none of it though, refusing to let Farah control the race, and swoops back into the lead with 3,000m to go. Now Muchiri tries to break his rivals but the five remain tight together.
The three Kenyans – Bedan Muchiri, Geoffrey Kamworor and Paul Tanui – are setting a relentless pace at the halfway point, but Farah and Rupp are on their tails. Imane Merga also looks dangerous but the Ethiopians are not working together like the Kenyans. Merga’s colleagues have been dropped. The race is beginning to hot up.
The early pace was pretty pedestrian and Farah settled into a comfortable position in the middle of the pack. But now the Kenyans have stepped on the gas. They know that Farah is impossible to beat if the race is slow. He has an extra gear that no one can live with but the only hope is to wear him down by piling on the pressure in this searing heat and humidity.
Mo Farah is out on the track for the 10,000m and there is some debate in the studio about whether he is a nailed on winner. Gabby Logan reckons no one can come close to the Briton but Brendan Foster and Steve Cram think he’s in a race here. Farah’s controversial team-mate Galen Rupp is among his rivals and there are some top Kenyans running but the Olympic champions looks relaxed on the start line and is already doing the Mobot.
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Heptathlon standings (end of day one)
At the end of a fanatastic day for Great Britian Ennis-Hill lies first and Johnson-Thompson second:
1) Jessica Ennis-Hill 4005
2) Katarina Johnson-Thompson 3925
3) Nadine Visser 3871
4) Brianne Theisen-Eaton 3865
Heptathlon 200m results
Johnson-Thompson storms to victory ahead of Ennis-Hill in the final heat of the heptathlon 200m to finish the first day in style. That’s a fine run by the young Liverpudlian and catapults her back into medal contention, especially as Visser was some way behind Ennis-Hill in third with Theisen-Eaton even further back in fourth.
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Great Britain’s Steven Lewis has had three failures at 5.55m in the pole vault and unfortunately he will be going home. He looked good early on but eventually fell some way short of his personal best of 5.82.
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Drugs are never far away from any athletics talk at the moment, and Raubil Gariba feels it is casting a shadow over the world championships’ blue riband event:
I am very much worried by the participation of confirmed dopers like Justlin Gatlin and Tyson Gay in the 100m dash this year...It means the sport is not clean and when this happens, analysts and fans passion for the game are made nonsense because someone used illegal medicine to enhance their performance to excite us. The IAAF should put in place an automatic life ban for all proven drug users. I think this will help sanitize the sport we all love most especially the 100 m dash. Having said this I think Gatlin cannot disappoint with his 2015 best of 9.74 better than that of Bolt (9.87)....It should be a Gatlin win.
Heptathlon update
After three events Jessica Ennis-Hill lies in gold medal position in the heptathlon on 2,968 points, 34 clear of Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam. Her GB team-mate Katarina Johnson-Thompson has dropped down to ninth despite throwing a personal best in the shot put, her weakest event. The world No1 and favourite, Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton, is fifth overall on 2,879 points. Next up is the 200m, the final event of day one but the current standings are:
1) Jessica Ennis-Hill 2,968 points
2) Nafissatou Thiam 2,934,
3) Nadine Visser 2,930
Usain Bolt better have a lot more in the tank than that. Unsurprisingly he started badly but even when he got into his stride he never really pulled away from the American Mike Rodgers. Bolt won the heat in 9.96sec but he looked incredibly rusty. Hopefully he is pulling the wool over our eyes with that display. He is the people’s champion, he is still such an imposing figure on the track and no one will ever match his elegance, but he is not flowing like he used to. In better news Kilty is through to the semi-finals as a fastest loser but Dasaolu is out.
Usain Bolt looks very rusty, there is no fluidity in his running style. He looks very laboured, especially at the start. #bbcathletics
— Andrew Priestley (@A_Priestley89) August 22, 2015
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Justin Gatlin’s times this season have been extraordinary, and if Usain Bolt was not worried before, he may be now. Another devastating run from the American sees him record a time of 9.83 in effortless style. He looked relaxed and composed in victory. “I just want to set the tone,” he says afterwards. “With Usain Bolt, it’s on.” How will the Jamaican respond?
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It’s been a couple of years since James Dasaolu set his personal best of 9.91 and that form seems some way off at the moment. The Croydon harrier flew out of the blocks but fell back to fourth as the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut and the Canadian Andre de Grasse eased past him. Vicaut’s time of 9.92 is impressive, but Dasaolu was slower than Kilty and must wait to see if a fastest loser spot comes his way.
Trayvon Bromell, the teenage star of the US trials, storms to victory in 9.91sec in heat four of the 100m ahead of Britain’s CJ Ujah. Bromell looked mightily impressive there but Ujah is safely through in 10.05 and promises to sharpen up for the semi-finals tomorrow. Kilty remains the fastest loser with three spots available and three heats to go.
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Richard Kilty surges into the lead off the blocks in heat three but fades in the final 40 metres to finish fourth. Only the first three qualify automatically for the next round and afterwards the Britain admits he didn’t run very well. At present he is the fastest loser in a time of 10.12 and it would be a real boost if he could scape through after a difficult season.
Heat two includes Tyson Gay, who like Powell has been banned over drugs, and the former world champion suggests he can still be a medal contender at the age of 33 with a controlled victory in a time of 10.11.
Men's 100m heats
The world will be behind Usain Bolt in his battle against Justin Gatlin for the gold in the 100m, and the heats will provide a chance to assess their condition. But Asafa Powell offers an early reminder that the pair may not have it all their own way in Beijing, sauntering to victory in 9.95sec in the opening heat after promising to run under 10 seconds in every round.
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Disappointing throws from Ennis-Hill and Johnson-Thompson in the final round of the shot put mean there is no change to their points totals.
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Ennis-Hill throws 13.73m in the second round of the heptathlon shot put to ensure she will get some points on the board after falling over first time around. She really is looking determined and composed after all that time out. Theisen-Eaton throws 13.70m while KJT cannot improve on her PB of 12.47m in the opening round.
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Britain’s Niall Flannery produces a season’s best time to qualify second in the third heat of the 400m hurdles behind the American Kerron Clement. A confidence-boosting performance that from Flannery, who was up against five men who had run faster than him this season. In heat four the previously dominant American Bershawn Jackson stuns everyone by finishing last and crashing out of the championships. A truly awful display of hurdling that.
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In the heptathlon shot put Jessica Ennis-Hill opens with a solid throw of just over 14 metres in an event where she will hope to extend her overall lead, but it is called a foul. Johnson-Thompson follows that with a personal best but it is well short of her rival’s mark and Theisen-Eaton goes just past 13 metres.
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Out on the track now are the men’s 400m hurdlers and the first heat was dominated by Kenya’s Nicholas Bett. Heat two offered more of the same, with Bett’s compatriot Boniface Tumuti winning in a new personal best ahead of the big American hope Michael Tinsley. This is interesting. Could Kenya’s dominance of the middle-distance events be extended to the 400m hurdles? They’ve certainly announced themselves in style.
Marathon result
There was a surprise winner of the first gold at Beijing 2015, when 19-year-old Ghirmay Ghebreslassie became the youngest winner of the marathon at the World Championships. The Eritrean finished in a time of 2hr 12min 27sec to secure his country’s first ever World Championship gold medal. Yemane Tsegay of Ethiopia won silver and Munyo Solomon Mutai of Uganda bronze. London 2012 champion Stephen Kiprotich was sixth.
One of the most intriguing head-to-heads of these championships will come in the men’s 800m, where the world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya must try to overcome the season’s-long dominance of Botswana’s Nijel Amos to take gold. Both athletes cruised through the heats, along with Ethiopia’s defending champion Mohammed Aman. Rudisha sounds confident: “I have qualified and now I am looking forward to the final. I know it is going to be hard. I know my power is back. My problem before was my finishing speed.”
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Remember Super Saturday, when Mo Farah capped a remarkable day for British Athletics with gold in the 10,000m at London 2012? Well it’s saturday again, GB’s golden boy is running in the 10,000m in two-and-a-half hours and he is ready to own the start line – and the finish line – once more...
All set for tonight....!!! Come on TeamGBR...!!! #onemomile #Beijing2015 https://t.co/7wtQFHlGqo
— Mo Farah (@Mo_Farah) August 22, 2015
Heptathlon update
The first piece of news from the Bird’s Nest is a good one if you’re a Great Britain fan, as Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson are leading the field after the first two events in the heptathlon. Ennis-Hill, in her first major championship since London 2012 and 13 months after the birth of her son Reggie, clocked 12.91 seconds over the 100m hurdles and then equalled her season’s best of 1.86m in the high jump to lead the way on 2192 points. Johnson-Thompson is currently second, 30 points behind after setting a personal best of 13.37sec in the hurdles before clearing 1.89m in the high jump, becoming the only athlete to do so. The morning session got even better for the British pair when the world No1 and favourite, Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton, endured a poor high jump, managing only 1.80m, to lie in fifth place, 87 points behind Ennis-Hill.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson fails 3rd attempt at 1.92m. Jess Ennis-Hill leads the heptathlon after two events with 2192, with KJT 2nd on 2162
— Sean Ingle (@seaningle) August 22, 2015
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Laura Muir, a GB medal contender in the 1500m, cruised through her heat, finishing second to Ethiopia’s Besu Sado in 4:05.53sec. Laura Weightman, the silver medallist at last summer’s Commonwealth Games, also did enough to progress, coming home sixth in her heat in 4:06.13 and fortunately appearing to emerge relatively unscathed from a heavy fall just after crossing the line.
Muir said: “I stayed at the back out of trouble to let things settle down and then came through when it started to speed up a bit. I’m really pleased with the way I did it.”
The news from the 800m was less positive, though, as Michael Rimmer and Kyle Langford both crashed out, but Ireland’s Mark English scraped through as a fastest loser.
Nick Miller qualified second for the final of the hammer, but Mark Dry went out.
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Preamble
Hello. Seven years after we were blown away by the Bird’s Nest Stadium we are back at this wondrous feat of Chinese craftsmanship for the World Championships. As is always the case with these major athletics events, the action hots up straight away and day one features Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt in the 100m heats, as well as Mo Farah and Galen Rupp in the 10,000m final.
Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson have already completed two events in the heptathlon and I will update you shortly, but in the meantime here is a full schedule of today’s events from the evening session in Beijing (times in British Summer Time).
11:30 Women’s Shot Put (Heptathlon)
11:35 Men’s 400m Hurdles Heats
11:40 Men’s Pole Vault Qualification
12:10 Women’s Triple Jump Qualification
12:20 Men’s 100m Heats
13:05 Women’s Shot Put Final
13:15 Women’s 200m (Heptathlon)
13:50 Men’s 10,000m final
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