Some reports from the evening’s action:
And with that, I’m gone. I leave you with this video of the moment of the night. Bye!
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“All this hoo-hah about Lynsey Sharpe – no-one has mentioned that she has her eyes closed for the last 10-15 metres – no wonder she bumped Lipsey,” writes Tony Wawryk. “Still, quite right that she’s been reinstated, since it was so clearly accidental and didn’t prevent Lipsey from qualifying for the final.” Yes, running with your eyes closed is questionable, technically.
A preview of tomorrow’s 5,000m final:
I’ve not heard any more, and certainly nothing official, about a counterappeal against Lynsey Sharp’s reinstatement, so maybe it was just a rumour.
Marie-Josée Ta Lou missed out on gold by 0.03sec – Miller-Uibo was a way further back. In the 100m she missed out on gold by 0.01sec. That’s got to hurt.
Britain now have FIVE fourth-placed finishes in these championships ... they've definitely underperformed but margins so tight as well
— Sean Ingle (@seaningle) August 11, 2017
The delightful Dina Asher-Smith talks after her race and though she says she’s frustrated, she’s also obviously buzzing:
I’m quite frustrated, but at the same time I’m really happy run 22.22 with hardly any training. I was just thinking, focus on your lane, focus on your race, and just go for it. Coming down the home straight the crowd were getting louder and louder, and I thought, this probably means it’s going quite well. I’m so happy. I was really happy with 22.7, so honestly I’m over the moon. We’ve had a lot of fourth places but at the same time loads have been by people who are so young they have another decade in them. They’re definitely going to be ones to watch in champs to come.
Dafne Schippers takes gold for Holland in the 200m!
Ta Lou comes second, Miller-Uibo takes bronze, but Dina Asher-Smith ran brilliantly, and came fourth in a season’s-best time of 22.22.
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The athletes are on the track for the women’s 200m final. Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Dafne Schippers are in lanes four, five and six and are widely expected to snaffle the medals. You never know, though, even if, unlike the steeplechase, they can’t take any wrong turns.
So there is only one race still to run: the women’s 200m final. But there’s still drama off the track, where a counterappeal has apparently been submitted against Lynsey Sharp’s reinstatement.
Pawel Fajdek wins hammer gold for Poland!
And Wojciech Nowicki takes bronze for the Poles as well! Valeriy Pronkin gives the neutral athletes a silver medal, with Britain’s Nick Miller ending up sixth.
🇵🇱‼️🏅MEDALE 🏅‼️🇵🇱#London2017: HT 1. Paweł Fajdek 79.81 3. Wojciech Nowicki 78.03#PolishTeam | #AthleticsLive | #IAAFWorlds pic.twitter.com/6dFr2j1O9A
— PZLA (@PZLANews) August 11, 2017
Nick Miller gives everything to his final throw, spinning wildly, picking up speed. It would, for sure, have been an utterly fabulous throw – had it not flown straight into the cage. He finishes sixth.
Red flag on final throw from @NickMillerhamer. Amazing effort from the young man who will finish 6th 👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧#REPRESENT #London2017 pic.twitter.com/ICMHpNxdEF
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 11, 2017
Coburn hacked five seconds off her personal best to take gold there, setting the first championship record of the championships in the process. That’s nothing compared with Frerichs – until tonight her personal best was 9:19.09. Now it’s 9:03.77!
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USA take gold and silver in the women's steeplechase!
Emma Coburn takes gold, Courtney Frerichs takes second! Jepkemoi wins bronze for Kenya, and Chepkoech comes fourth despite falling over and missing a jump! That was a brilliantly dramatic race!
THIS STEEPLECHASE!! C'MON USA!!!! #london2017
— Eilish Mccolgan (@EilishMccolgan) August 11, 2017
Coburn takes the final water jump brilliantly, and she’s going to win this!
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The bell rings out, and America’s Emma Coburn is up with the leaders, as is Courtney Frerichs. There are five athletes, and three medals to be won!
Lynsey Sharp has won her appeal and will be in the 800m final!
Appeal upheld!@LynseySharp is into the final!!! 👊#REPRESENT https://t.co/NAd05MBxbT
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 11, 2017
That’s Beatrice Chepkoech, one of the favourites. She had to check back to go over the water jump. There’s also been a fall that brought a few competitors down. In the men’s steeplechase on Tuesday someone’s shoe fell off, and someone else ran chest-first into a hurdle. It’s a great event for random drama.
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Madness in the women’s steeplechase:
Oops! #London2017 pic.twitter.com/BnAylXF82u
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) August 11, 2017
The women’s 3,000m steeplechase finalists are on the track and waiting to start. Which Kenyan will win?
The decathlon standings after the 400m:
- Kevin Mayer (France) 4,478
- Kai Kazmirek (Germany) 4,421
- Rico Freimuth (Germany) 4,361
- Damian Warner (Canada) 4,347
- Trey Hardee (USA) 4,313
Britain’s Ashley Bryant is sitting in 16th on 4,101 points.
And now Miller’s in fifth, after Pawel Fajdek ended the third round of throws with a massive 79.73m, 1.7m ahead of second and over 2.5m ahead of third.
Here’s a big story I missed: Ivana Spanovic missed out on long jump bronze by 1cm. This is why:
#London2017 #spanovic pic.twitter.com/sSK5CULNwz
— Željko Subašić (@PoslednjiSkaut) August 11, 2017
That’s her number label which has come loose off her back, and which touched the sand before any of her body. And as a result, she has no medal.
In fact Miller’s out of the medals, sitting fourth behind Nowicki, Sokyrskii and Bigot.
Um, now he’s third again! Quentin Bigot of France has gone and thrown 77.46! Humbug.
Nick Miller is in second place in the hammer throw! Lying in seventh place after two attempts, his third is measured at 77.31 and he’s behind only Wojciech Nowicki of Poland!
Long jump gold-medalist Brittney Reese talks to the Beeb:
I came here, I’ve had a tough couple of weeks with the death of my grandfather. He was the reason I got onto the track, and I knew I had to come here and win a fourth gold medal for him, not just for me. I know he’s in heaven smiling right now. I’ve been through a lot but I know I can’t quit. I’m still in top shape, I’m still a contender in this event, and I’m going to keep going.
The second decathlon 400m heat ends with Trey Hardee being overhauled in the home straight and finishing fourth, with Australia’s Cedric Dubler winning it.
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Though I can tell you that Aleksei Sokyrskii, competing as a neutral athlete, leads the hammer field with only Pawel Fajdek still to take a second throw.
We’ve not seen a lot of the men’s hammer final on the telly yet. Which is to say, none at all.
Mihail Dudas wins the heat, with Mayer just behind, and then space, a bit more space, some extra space, and then the rest.
There are four decathlon 400m heats, but Kevin Mayer is in the first, which has just started.
Brittney Reese wins long jump gold
That’s the first gold medal of the evening, and it goes to America – it’s Reese’s fourth world championship medal, and they’ve all be gold. The neutral athlete Darya Klishina wins silver, and Tianna Bartoletta adds a bronze to the US medal count.
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… which is just as well, because her last jump is a foul.
Ivana Spanovic goes into her final jump in fourth place, but it’s a good one! Oooh, but not good enough. It’s 6.91, and she’ll finish fourth – and Brittney Reese wins gold, with a jump to spare!
Darya Klishina’s last jump is good, but not good enough to take the lead from Brittney Reese. It’s measured at 6.83m, so she’s in silver with two women to jump.
Lorraine Ugen’s final jump of 6.40 isn’t enough to lift her from fifth place.
Margaret Wambui’s undone shoelaces in full:
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O’Hare crosses the line in fourth, and qualifies for the final! He slowed up a lot in the final paces, though, and almost got caught on the line as a result. Jakub Holusa of the Czech Republic wins it.
O’Hare is basically following New Zealand’s Nick Willis, like he’s on some particularly speedy kind of work experience.
The second 1500m semi-final is under way, with Chris O’Hare carrying home hopes in this one.
Now it's @chrisohare1500's turn in the 1500m semi finals #SALSuper16 #REPRESENT #London2017
— scottishathletics (@scotathletics) August 11, 2017
Women’s long jump latest: Darya Klishina’s penultimate jump is measured at 7m on the nose, putting her in second place behind Brittney Reese.
Another red flag for Lorraine Ugen, who has landed one of her five jumps and has one more chance to improve on her current fifth position.
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That 1500m heat was pretty filthy, incidentally. A lot of bumping and jostling.
Meanwhile, Team GB are appealing against Lynsey Sharp’s disqualification.
Kiprop sits at the back of the pack until the final 250m, when he speeds up and moves towards the lead. He ends up second, with Sadik Mikhou, Elijah Manangoi and Adel Mechaal also qualifying. But Jake Whitman is well off the pace, and that’s the end of his championship.
And on to the first semi-final of the men’s 1500m. Jake Wightman goes in the first, and needs to be among the first five to be sure of a place in the final (with another two places up for grabs for those who miss out on automatic spots).
👉 Men's 1500m semi-finals now!
— British Athletics (@BritAthletics) August 11, 2017
SF 1️⃣ @JakeSWightman 🇬🇧
SF 2️⃣ @chrisohare1500 🇬🇧#REPRESENT #London2017 pic.twitter.com/K0xAkOccU5
There was nothing to suggest that Lipsey was actually slowed by the impact. I think you can’t really disqualify an athlete on such scant evidence.
Harshest DQ ever for @LynseySharp This is competitive 800m running on the world stage!!Barely even touched and non intentional! #London2017
— Guy Learmonth (@GuyLearmonth) August 11, 2017
A tearful Lynsey Sharp talks to the BBC after learning of her disqualification. Though the arms clearly linked briefly, Sharp had her eyes closed as she strained to reach the line and clearly there was no intent. It seems extremely harsh to me.
As far as I’m concerned I can’t remember anything different to any other race I’ve been in. I can’t remember doing anything. I’ll definitely go back and look at it, with British Athletics. I’ve been in a lot of scrappy races this year and I’d put my hands up and say I did something, but I can’t remember doing anything.
Brittney Reese jumps 7.02m in the women’s long jump, and she takes the lead!
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Wambui ran almost the entire race with the laces of her left shoe totally undone.
Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui, the two favourites from that heat, came first and second. Oskan-Clarke came a distant sixth.
The final 800m semi-final is under way, and Francine Niyonsaba is in the lead, with Shelayne Oskan-Clarke on her shoulder. It is, however, very slow.
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Lynsey Sharp has been disqualified from the women’s 800m! In the final metres her swinging arm interlocked with Charlene Lipsey’s, just for a moment, but though it seemed accidental it could feasible be interpreted as an attempt to pull her back, and the IAAF clearly didn’t much like it.
Lorraine Ugen lands her third jump, and 6.73m is probably enough to give her a few more goes!
The second lap was however a very quick one, so Sharp and Lipsey are, with one semi-final to go, in qualifying positions.
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Semenya wins! Lipsey is second for most of the last lap, with Sharp fighting to catch up, but over the last 40 yards Angelika Cichocka creeps through on the inside to steal second!
The first lap is over a second slower than it was in the first semi-final, so only the first two over the line are likely to go through from here.
Heat two of the women’s 800m semi-final features Caster Semenya, America’s Charlene Lipsey and Britain’s Lynsey Sharp.
Excellent photograph, this.
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Wilson takes total charge of that race, and looks like she’s out for a Sunday stroll as she crosses the line in first place. Melissa Bishop of Canada takes the other guaranteed place int he final, with Adelle Tracey some way back.
And so to the women’s 800m semi-finals. In the first race, America’s Ajee Wilson has a personal best that leaves everyone else in the shade. Britain’s Adelle Tracey goes against her, having set a personal best in qualifying.
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Lorraine Ugen sees another red flag after her second jump, and is now in the last chance saloon.
Nadine Visser, who came third in the first semi-final, claims the other spare place in the final.
Dawn Harper Nelson and Pamela Dutkiewicz took the two automatic qualifying spots in that third semi-final.
She’s not! She’s still through! By two hundredths of a second! “I think that first little hiccup threw me off, but I just tried to make it through,” she grins. “I’m excited for the final, and ready to come out here and really get the job done.”
Harrison could be out here! She hits the first hurdle and at halfway she’s nowhere, but she fights back to finish, by a nose, third!
There’s a false start here, and it looks like bad news for Germany’s Pamela Dutkiewicz, who didn’t do much more than flex a leg but apparently it all counts. But when a card is shown it’s only a green, and she’s still in the race!
And now for the third semi-final. Kendra Harrison goes in this one and is expected to win it.
Williams has an absolute disaster! She hits the first hurdle, then hits the second hurdle for good measure, and it doesn’t much improve from there. She hits the last one to boot, and once she crosses the line she collapses to the ground, beaten. America’s Christina Manning leads from first to last, with Alina Talay coming second, just ahead of Yanique Thompson. Williams trails in fifth.
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Now for the second 100m hurdles semi-final. Danielle Williams, the defending champion, is in this one.
Lorraine Ugen is first to jump in the women’s long jump final, and thus only had to land a legal jump to be, at least briefly, at the head of the field. She doesn’t.
Pearson absolutely destroys her rivals! Nia Alli of America runs straight into the first hurdle but overtakes Megan Simmonds to take the second automatic qualifying spot, while Holland’s Nadine Visser comes third but will have to wait to see if she’s one of the two fastest others.
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The women’s 100m semi-finals are upon us. Sally Pearson is the big name in the first run.
Only Kai Kazmirek – who was eighth after three events – jumped higher than Kevin Mayer in the decathlon high jump, so the Frenchman will still be in the lead when they add all the points up, which they should hopefully do very soon.
I don’t know what Ilya Shkurenev puts in his hair, but I want some. In 2015 the Russian decathlete – one of the Authorised Neutral Athletes this year – looked like this:
And now he looks like this:
He really is luxuriantly coiffed.
They’re already having a lot of fun in the stadium, where they’re an hour into the decathlon high jump.
Hello world!
So, you will be wanting to know what you’ve got in store this evening. Happily, I have the answer (with all times in BST):
7.05pm: Women’s 100m hurdles semi-finals
There’ll be three of these, at 7.05pm, 7.14pm and 7.23pm. Of the three favourites, the overwhelming No1 Kendra Harrison goes in the third; Australia’s Sally Pearson is in the first and Danielle Williams of Jamaica in the second. There is no home interest in this one.
7.10pm: Women’s long jump final
Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic is favourite to take her first world title, after bronze medals in 2013 and 2015, as well as in Rio last year, having jumped 7.24 indoors in March. Tianna Bartoletta, the latest Olympic gold-medalist, and Brittney Reese, who won gold in London and silver in Rio, are expected to challenge. Londoner Lorraine Ugen is a 25-1 outsider.
7.35pm: Women’s 800m semi-finals
Again, there will be three of them, held at 10-minute intervals. Caster Semenya is odds-on favourite to take gold and goes in the second heat, but both America’s Ajee Wilson (in the first race) and Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba (in the third) have, like her, set very similar personal bests this year – only 0.35sec separates them. Britain’s Lynsey Sharp runs in lane five, just inside Semenya, in the second race, and Shelayne Oskan-Clarke runs in the third.
8.10pm: Men’s 1500m semi-finals
Just the two of these, again to be held at 10-minute intervals. Only three men here have run below 3min 31sec this year: Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot (3:29.10) and Ronald Kwemoi (3:30.89) are in race two, while the favourite, Elijah Manangoi – another Kenyan – is in race one. There’s one Briton in each race: Jake Wightman in the first and Chris O’Hare in the second.
8.30pm: Men’s hammer final
The bookmakers seem pretty convinced that Poland’s Pawel Fajdek will run away with this one, though at nearly 19 stone he’s unlikely to actually run anywhere. Nick Miller provides the home interest.
8.45pm: Men’s decathlon 400m
The decathlon is currently auditioning for a replacement for the recently-retired Ashton Eaton, who had won the last two Olympic and last two world championship titles. After three events (the high jump started at 5.30pm, so that’s a fourth) France’s Kevin Mayer – who won silver in Rio, and is now the 1/8 favourite – led the field. Damian Warner, who took bronze last year, was sixth.
9.25pm: Women’s 3,000m steeplechase final
Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech is favourite to win, but her compatriot Celliphine Chespol is the only woman to run sub-9mins this year. The only non-Kenyan given any serious chance of winning is the 2016 Olympic champion Ruth Jebet, who in fact is Kenyan, but competes for Bahrain.
9.50pm: Women’s 200m final
I was in the stadium to see the semi-finals, and can report that both Dafne Schippers, the Dutch favourite, and Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the Bahamian who would already have 400m gold in her pocket had she not got distracted while watching television in the home straight and forgotten how to run, looked in great shape. They occupy lanes five and six, with Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith in lane eight. Her personal best is actually the third-best in the field, though her season’s best is the worst.
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Simon will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s Andy Bull reflecting on day seven’s dramatic men’s 200m final:
