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STARS OF MOSCOW A RACE THROUGH THE 2013 IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

1. Usain Bolt 2. Robert Harting 3. Yelena Isinbayeva 4. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 5. Dmitry Tarabin 6. Anna Chicherova 7. LaShawn Merritt 8. Brigetta Barrett 9. Svetlana Shkolina 10. Edna Kiplagat 11. Mariya Abakumova 12. Valerie Adams 13. Meseret Defar 14. Zuzana Hejnovรก 15. Bohdan Bondarenko 16. David Oliver 17. Teddy Tamgho 18. Robert Heffernan 19. Hanna Melnychenko 20. Warren Weir 21. Aleksandr Menkov 22. Mo Farah 23. Darya Klishina 24. David Storl 25. Brittney Reese 26. Christine Ohuruogu

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MOSCOW 2013

Opening ceremony The spaceships are inated:d: it's take-off time 4-5 Day-by-day Re-live every single day of the 2013 013 IAAF World Championships 6-41 Goodnight Moscow More tears than a podium: odium: it's the closing ceremony 42-43 Moscow roll call Every medallist, allist, every result, every hero 44-45 Hello China Back to the Bird's rd s Nest in two years time...

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Editor Nikki Wicks Art director Tim Scott Designers Amy Hanbidge, Claire Punter, Adam Shorrock Writers James Charlton, Steve Landells Production editors Sarah Dyson, Steph Wilkinson Picture editors Jenny Quiggin, Dominique Campbell Digital management Wendy Southern Editorial director Simon Kanter Group art director Martin Tullett Director Cormac Bourne Managing director Andrew Taplin Chief executive Kevin Costello For IAAF Laura Arcoleo, Nick Davies Repro Haymarket Prepress, England Photography Getty Images, Jamie Squire, Shutterstock SPIKES email: editor@spikesmag.com Website www.spikesmag.com Twitter @spikesmag Produced for IAAF by Haymarket Network, Teddington Studios, Broom Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9BE, UK. Telephone +44 (0) 20 8267 5000. Reprinting in whole or in part is forbidden except with prior permission of the publisher. Due care is taken to ensure that the content of SPIKES is fully accurate, but the publisher cannot accept liability for errors and omissions.

THE SPARROW

It's the opening ceremony of the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, and no-one really has a clue what's going on...

Who needs the Queen skydiving when you’ve got a spaceship giving birth to a giant egg, from which a sparrow mascot hatches?

Danny Boyle’s London 2012 opening ceremony may have had royalty but Moscow 2013 has a man in a hat on a flying bike, tiny hurdles, the periodic table of elements via the medium of interpretive dance, ballet, street dance, suprematic art, montage cinema and FIVE space rockets.

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WELCOME TO MO-SCOW The stars of track and field serve up a treat on day one of the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, 30 years since the first ever edition. With the likes of Usain Bolt and Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie making it through their respective qualifying rounds unscathed, there are few surprises. On the track, although it first looks like the men's 10,000m is being set up by the East Africans to make it tough for Great Britain's Mo Farah, the race is won in familiar fashion: with Farah's trademark sprint finish.

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IN HER SIGHTS Edna Kiplagat (in third) keeps close to race leader Valeria Straneo as they pass St. Basil's Cathedral

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I dedicate my victory to my husband for letting me have enough time to train ” Kenya's Edna Kiplagat becomes the first woman to defend her world marathon title

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H C U O THE IRON LADY 1 During qualifying in the women’s discus, Polish athlete Zaneta Glanc accidentally hits the Ukraine’s Natalia Semenova (left) in the nose while miming a throw in the athlete’s area.

Despite a bout of concussion and a broken nose, Semenova still went on to throw, managing one valid effort of 55.79m. "I had to throw to show for my husband and parents, watching on TV in Donetsk, that I’m alive, feeling good, and I’m the Iron Lady as usual," says Semenova.

IRON LADY 2 Italian mother of two Valeria Straneo, who had her spleen and gall bladder removed in 2010, wins marathon silver aged 37

CAPTAIN CHRISSY

INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY

GB skipper Christine Ohuruogu runs a stunning 50.20, the quickest first round 400m ever at a world champs

The marathon is captured as race leaders Valeria Straneo and Edna Kiplagat run back to the Luzhniki Stadium along the Moskva River.

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LIGHTNING FOR BOLT The sport of athletics and the elements combine on day two, creating a perfect storm in Moscow.

As the fastest man in history reclaims his 100m world title: thunder rumbles, lightning strikes, and AFP photographer Olivier Morin captures the shot of the century. "If I tried again for a similar result for the next 50 years, it wouldn't happen again," says Morin. "I only really give myself credit for one percent of this picture."

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HAIR TODAY Hey, Martina ina Pretelli, were you standing anywhere e near that lightning bolt?

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WHAM BAM GRAND SLAM Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic becomes the first woman to complete the discus Grand Slam of world, Olympic and European titles

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BRITTNEY REESE PUTS BACK THE PIECES

Španovic leaps to a national record 6.82m for long jump bronze, Serbia’s first-ever world championship medal.

After making the final by a whisker, Reese bounces back to win her third consecutive LJ gold

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“My sister did her heats this morning and she wanted to watch me in the stadium tonight.

But I refused and told her to watch it in the hotel” World 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba

EATON WON'T BE BEATEN .The USA's Ashton Eaton becomes the first ever multi event athlete to have a full set of indoor and outdoor world titles, world records, and Olympic gold

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MARGINS Just four-thousandths of a second separate gold medal winner Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain and Botswana's Amantle Montsho in an epic women’s 400m final.

In contrast, the women’s 100m and men’s 110m hurdles finals witness record-breaking margins of victory. Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce takes 100m gold by 0.22 and the USA's David Oliver finishes 0.13 clear in the men’s sprint hurdles.

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HAIRDO OF THE DAY SHELLY-ANN'S PRYCE IS RIGHT The woman with four names wins her fourth major individual 100m gold medal: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce leaves a high-class field trailing behind her magnificent pink hair.

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FANS OF THE DAY NOW WHAT IT AH HA , YOU K E YELLOW, BLU D N A E U L B …

IS AND YELLOW Day after day, the Ukrainian fans continue to bring colour and atmosphere to the Luzhniki Stadium.

"IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GOLD MEDAL" One month after telling SPIKES that gold on August 12 is all that matters, the USA’s David Oliver storms to 110m hurdles gold in the quickest time of the year

German pole vaulter Raphael Holzdeppe shocks Olympic champ and hot favourite Renaud Lavillenie to become the world champion

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HOMETOWN GLORY This is the day the Luzhniki Stadium is waiting for. Elena Lashmanova leads a Russian one-two in the women's 20km race walk, followed

by Russian icon Yelena Isinbayeva claiming her third world pole vault gold medal, in front of the biggest crowd of the champs so far.

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BIG BAD BOB Another perfectly good Germany vest falls victim to Robert Harting’s trademark celebration as he wins his third straight discus title.

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HE'S AMAN Ethiopia's world indoor champ Mohammed Aman, 19, pips Nick Symmonds to 800m gold

“This is my third world title and I am very much happy.

How does one celebrate in Russia? Long and hard, I guess” World discus champion Robert Harting's post-competition tactics

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UP FRONT Much to the delight of the Ukrainians in the crowd, Hanna Melnychenko leads all day to win gold in the heptathlon

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ONE LAP WONDER The USA’s 2009 world champion LaShawn Merritt wins 400m gold in a personal best time, as team-mate Tony McQuay takes silver

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Russian and Ukranian gold medals help crank up the volume inside the Luzhniki Stadium.

DAY 5 #DOTHEHEFF Robert Heffernan becomes the first Irishman to win world championship gold since Eamonn Coghlan's 5000m triumph in Helsinki 30 years ago. Heff’s 50km race walk win also triggers this summer’s hottest YouTube craze: #DOTHEHEFF. Go on, Google it...

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DAY FIVE

THE LAST IE KIE CCOOOOK A HERO IN DEFEAT US race walker John Nunn finishes last in the men’s 50km walk, almost an hour behind the race winner.

Despite severe cramps he still finishes the race, and can console himself with the thought of homemade cookies when he g gets back to the USA. He and his wife run a gourmet cookie business.

ANITA’S HAMMER The 2009 world champion and London Olympic silver medallist Anita Włodarczyk of Poland throws 76.18m, the longest ever in qualifying in world championship history.

WHO'S A BUSY BOY THEN? A little over 12 hours after winning a bronze medal in the men’s 800m final for Djibouti, Ayanleh Souleiman is back in action, comfortably advancing through his first round heat in the men’s 1500m

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HAIRDO OF THE DAY

FLOWER POWER Well, it’s more of a hair air decoration today, and d Am Amanda manda Bingson’s lovely trademark emarrk flower brightens up the he women’s hammer throw.

7-UP Three-time former hammer champion ampion Yipsi Moreno o of Cuba advances ces to an unprecedented dented seventh world rld final.

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ALL-TIME-GREAT Four-time world champion Dwight Phillips of the USA makes a record-breaking seventh world long jump final

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DAY 6 SSSSSHH! I'M TRYING TO HIGH JUMP HERE Despite raucous Ukrainian support throughout the champs, the Luzhniki Stadium falls silent for Bohdan Bondarenko, who likes it like that. It works, too: Ukraine's high jumper wins gold with a championship record 2.41m.

Has anyone told Bohdan that he’s wearing odd shoes?

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G N I N N I W STREAK CAN'T TOUCH THIS Zuzana Hejnová maintains her perfect unbeaten season to win the 400m hurdles title by more than a second.

DEEPLY DIPPY Jehue Gordon (lane 6) produces an incredible dip finish to beat Michael Tinsley by 0.01 for 400m hurdles gold

ABLE CAIN As Abeba Aregawi wins 1500m gold for Sweden, American 17-year-old Mary Cain, the event's youngest ever finalist, finishes tenth

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GREAT CATERINE Caterine Ibargüen wins Colombia’s first ever gold medal at a world championships with the furthest women's triple jump of the year

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THE GENERATION GAME The ever-cheerful Ezekiel Kemboi (left) becomes the oldest ever men's steeplechase world champion, aged 31. With silver, Conseslus Kipruto, 18, (right) is the event's youngest ever medallist.

He seems less cheerful.

DAY 7 RUSSIA STRIKES BACK

The ďŹ eld events take centre stage inside a rocking Luzhniki Stadium and Tatyana Lysenko takes hammer throw gold with 78.80m: a world championship record. Each of her attempts is met with a huge roar from the home crowd.

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a fie ield day for ia Reussia MAgic menkov Aleksandr Menkov also delights the home crowd, bouncing his way to long jump gold with a 8.56m winning mark. It's a national record and the world's longest jump for four years.

A RARE GEM Britain's 19-year-old sprinter Adam Gemili sets two 200m PB’s in one day, and his 19.98 semi-final victory is the fastest ever by a European teenager

GETTY TO THE RESCUE David Storl, initially red flagged for his fourth round effort, wins shot put gold after an official consulted a nearby photographer

TRACK DANCE The American 4x400m quartet, anchored by LaShawn Merritt, win gold comfortably

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SEEING DOUBLE Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wins the 200m by a clear .15 and becomes the first woman for 22 years to win the women’s 100m and 200m sprint double at a world championships

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SPEAR WE GO Mariya Abakumova hurls the javelin out to 69.09m, the furthest ever throw in world champs qualifying

STRANGERS IN MOSCOW For only the second time in world championship history, the USA fail to win a medal in the men’s long jump, and for the first time in 16 years they do not fill a podium spot in the women’s 200m. Three-time 200m champion Allyson Felix (above) is carried from the track with a hamstring tear by her brother, Wes.

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SUPER SATURDAY A great night for Russian sport sees Svetlana Shkolina win a surprise high jump gold as their women’s 4x400m team beat the USA to top the gold medal table on the penultimate day of action.

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DEFAR AND AAW WAY QUEEN OF THE 5000M Meseret Defarr of Ethiopia wins her second world 5000m title to add to herr 2004 and 2012 Olympic gold d medals.

LOOK OVER THERE! Usain Bolt continues to dominate men’s sprinting with a third consecutive world 200m title, and his mate Warren Weir takes silver. The young Jamaican then proves more than a match for Bolt when it comes to celebrating

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SEALED WITH A KISS nd Tatyana Firova and Kseniya Ryzhova, two 0m of Russia’s 4x400m relay team, celebrate rate a dramatic victory over the United States

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HEADBAND OF THE DAY CZECH GREAT AND A YOUTUBE FIRST The Czech Republic's Vítezslav Veselý becomes world champion with a throw of 87. 17m, but it's heartbreak for fourth-placed Julius Yego of Kenya. Despite a national record 85.40m, the man who taught himself javelin from YouTube videos, is denied bronze by the final throw of Dmitriy Tarabin.

Brianna Rollins of the USA suffers a nightmare start in the women’s 100m hurdles but somehow recovers to hunt down Australia’s defending champion Sally Pearson.

DAY 9 QUEENS OF THE RELAY Jamaica's 4x100m quartet of (clockwise from top left) ShellyAnn Fraser-Pryce, Carrie Russell, Kerron Stewart and Schillonie Calvert set a championship record with the second-fastest time in history. SAFP is the ďŹ rst woman ever to win the sprint treble at a world championships.

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ANCHORS AWAY Usain Bolt anchors Jamaica to 4x100m gold, his eighth world championship gold.

With ten medals in total, only Jamaica's former sprinter Merlene Ottey has more, with 14

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I cannot describe my feelings. I have been waiting for this moment for eight years. This is the most beautiful moment in my sporting career” Germany's Christina Obergföll makes her fifth podium at a major champs, but this time she wins gold

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SUPER TED France's Teddy Tamgho produces the longest triple jump for 17 years to win gold, and becomes the third man in history to clear 18 metres

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Kenya’s Asbel Kiprop is the third man in history to mount a successful defence of the men’s 1500m title, after Noureddine Morceli and Hicham El Guerrouj.

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CLOSING CEREMONY

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GOODNIGHT MOSCOW Over nine days in the Russian capital, 396,548 evening session spectators see the world's best athletes run, jump and throw their way into the history books.

All there is left to do now, is ďŹ ll the air with silly string.

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THE MEDALLISTS

W O C O S O C M S O M L L L L A A C C L L O RROLL 13 IAA Every single medal awarded at the 20

SPRINTS MEN'S 100m Usain Bolt (JAM) 9.77 Justin Gatlin (USA) 9.85 Nesta Carter (JAM) 9.95 200m Usain Bolt (JAM) 19.66 Warren Weir (JAM) 19.79 Curtis Mitchell (USA) 20.04 400m LaShawn Merritt (USA) 43.74 Tony McQuay (USA) 44.40 Luguelín Santos (DOM) 44.52

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5000m Mo Farah (GBR) 13:26.98 Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH) 13:27.26 :27.26 Isiah Koech (KEN) 13:27.26 6 10,000m Mo Farah (GBR) 27:21.71 Ibrahim Jeilan (ETH) 27:22.23 2.23 Paul Tanui (KEN) 27:22.61 3000m steeplechase Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN) 8:06.01 06.01 Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 8:06.37 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad bbad (FRA) 8:07.86

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Usain Bolt is the most successful athlete ever, so what now for the big man?

Answers on a postcard, please

WOMEN'S

800m Eunice Sum (KEN) 1:57.38 Mariya Savinova (RUS) 1:57.80 Brenda Martinez (USA) 1:57.91

400m hurdles Jehue Gordon (TRI) 47.69 Michael Tinsley (USA) 47.70 Emir Bekric (SRB) 48.05

100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 10.71 Murielle Ahouré (CIV) 10.93 Carmelita Jeter (USA) 10.94

1500m Abeba Aregawi (SWE) 4:02.67 Jenny Simpson (USA) 4:02.99 Hellen Obiri (KEN) 4:03.86

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200m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 22.17 Murielle Ahouré (CIV) 22.32 Blessing Okagbare (NGR) 22.32

5000m Meseret Defar (ETH) 14:50.19 Mercy Cherono (KEN) 14:51.22 Almaz Ayana (ETH) 14:51.33

400m Christine Ohuruogu (GBR) 49.41 Amantle Montsho (BOT) 49.41 Antonina Krivoshapka (RUS) 49.78

10,000m Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH) 30:43.35 Gladys Cherono (KEN) 30:45.17 Belaynesh Oljira (ETH) 30:46.98

MIDDLE/LONG MEN'S

3000m steeplechase Milcah Chemos (KEN) 9:11.65 Lidya Chepkurui (KEN) 9:12.55 Sofia Assefa (ETH) 9:12.84

HURDLES

100m hurdles Brianna Rollins (USA) 12.44 Sally Pearson (AUS) 12.50 Tiffany Porter (GBR) 12.55 400m hurdles Zuzana Hejnová (CZE) 52.83 Dalilah Muhammad (USA) 54.09 Lashinda Demus (USA) 54.27

ROADRUNNING MEN'S Marathon Stephen Kiprotich (UGA) 2:09:51 Lelisa Desisa (ETH) 2:10:12 Tadese Tola (ETH) 2:10:23

800m Mohammed Aman (ETH) 1:43.31 Nick Symmonds (USA) 1:43.55 Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI) 1:43.76

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1500m Asbel Kiprop (KEN) 3:36.28 Matthew Centrowitz (USA) 3:36.78 Johan Cronje (RSA) 3:36.83

110m hurdles David Oliver (USA) 13.00 Ryan Wilson (USA) 13.13 Sergey Shubenkov (RUS) 13.24

Marathon Edna Kiplagat (KEN) 2:25:44 Valeria Straneo (ITA) 2:25:58 Kayoko Fukushi (JPN) 2:27:45

SPIKES It wouldn't be a major champs without Robert Harting's torso

JUMPS MEN'S High jump Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR) 2.41m Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) 2.38m Derek Drouin (CAN) 2.38m

Triple jump Teddy Tamgho (FRA) 18.04m Pedro Pablo Pichardo (CUB) 17.68m Will Claye (USA) 17.52m

WOMEN'S High jump Svetlana Shkolina (RUS) 2.03m Brigetta Barrett (USA) 2.00m Ruth Beitia (ESP) 1.97m Anna Chicherova (RUS) 1.97m Pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) 4.89m Jenn Suhr (USA) 4.82m Yarisley Silva (CUB) 4.82m Long jump Brittney Reese (USA) 7.01m Blessing Okagbare (NGR) 6.99m Ivana Španovic (SRB) 6.82m Triple jump Caterine Ibargüen (COL) 14.85m Ekaterina Koneva (RUS) 14.81m Olha Saladuha (UKR) 14.65m

Isinbayeva reclaimed the world pole vault title she last won six years ago in Osaka

MEN'S 20km race walk Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS) 1:20:58 Chen Ding (CHN) 1:21:09 Miguel Ángel López (ESP) 1:21:21 50km race walk Robert Heffernan (IRL) 3:37:56 Mikhail Ryzhov (RUS) 3:38:58 Jared Tallent (AUS) 3:40:03

Pole vault Raphael Holzdeppe (GER) 5.89m Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) 5.89m Björn Otto (GER) 5.82m Long jump Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) 8.56m Ignisious Gaisah (NED) 8.29m Luis Rivera (MEX) 8.27m

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THROWS MEN'S Shot put David Storl (GER) 21.73m Ryan Whiting (USA) 21.57m Dylan Armstrong (CAN) 21.34m Discus throw Robert Harting (GER) 69.11m Piotr Małachowski (POL) 68.36m Gerd Kanter (EST) 65.19m Hammer throw Paweł Fajdek (POL) 81.97m Krisztián Pars (HUN) 80.30m Lukáš Melich (CZE) 79.36m Javelin throw Vítezslav Veselý (CZE) 87.17m Tero Pitkämäki (FIN) 87.07m Dmitriy Tarabin (RUS) 86.23m

WOMEN'S Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL) 20.88m Christina Schwanitz (GER) 20.41m Gong Lijiao (CHN) 19.95m Discus throw D Sandra Perkovic (CRO) 67.99m Mélina Robert-Michon (FRA) 66.28m Yarelys Barrios (CUB) 64.96m Hammer throw H Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) 78.80m Anita Włodarczyk (POL) 78.46m Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) 75.58m Javelin throw J Christina Obergföll (GER) 69.05m Kimberley Mickle (AUS) 66.60m Mariya Abakumova (RUS) 65.09m

RACE WALKS

20km race walk Elena Lashmanova (RUS) 1:27:08 Anisya Kirdyapkina (RUS) 1:27:11 Liu Hong (CHN) 1:28:10

RELAYS MEN'S 4x100m relay Jamaica 37.36 USA 37.66 Canada 37.92 4x400m relay USA 2:58.71 Jamaica 2:59.88 Russia 2:59.90

WOMEN'S 4x100m relay Jamaica 41.29 USA 42.75 Great Britain 42.87 4x400m relay Russia 3:20.19 USA 3:20.41 Great Britain 3:22.61

COMBINED MEN'S Decathlon Ashton Eaton (USA) 8809 Michael Schrader (GER) 8670 Damian Warner (CAN) 8512

WOMEN'S Heptathlon Hanna Melnychenko (UKR) 6586 Brianne Theisen-Eaton (CAN) 6530 Dafne Schippers (NED) 6477

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BEIJING 2015

NEXT STOP BEIJING 2015 Seven years after the incredible 2008 Olympic Games, the world's best athletes will return to Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2015 IAAF World Championships.

See you there!

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