Day Three Preview: The IAAF World Athletics Championships would like to move past Saturday’s Usain Bolt heartbreak and pull the focus back on the on-field action on Day 3. Sunday is lined up with the finals of Men’s and women’s marathons, heptathlon, women’s pole vault, men’s shot put, women’s 100 metres and a host of other qualifying events. South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk will also be in action on Day 3 of the World Athletics Championships and his performance will be looked keenly to see if he can indeed fill Usain Bolt’s big shoes. Despite losing the lead to Carolin Schafer after three events of the heptathlon, Belgian Nafissatou Thiam is still the favourite. Olympic champion Elaine Thompson would start as the firm favourite in the women’s 100 metres event which would bring Day 3 to a close. India’s Swapna Barman would like to improve her standings in the heptathlon while Siddhanth Thingalaya in 110 metres hurdles, Nirmala Sheoran in Women’s 400 metres, Gopi Thonakal and Monika Athare in marathon are the other Indian in action on Sunday.
Highlights, IAAF World Athletics Championships 2017, Results, Day 3 in London: Tori Bowie claims gold, Thiam wins heptathlon
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And that brings down the curtain on Day 3 of the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London. Tori Bowie becomes the 100m world champion out of nowhere. Jamaica was denied a gold medal in the 100m again. Walsh had a brilliant day and so did Nafissatou Thiam by winning gold in the heptathlon.
That’s all from us but we’ll be back tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed our live coverage. Good night!
Wait, there’s something else too.
The USA have won both the men’s (Justin Gatlin) and women’s (Tori Bowie) 100m for the fourth time at the World Athletics Championships after 1997, 1999 & 2005. Gatlin and Bowie have definitely shocked the spectators at the London Stadium with wins in their respective 100m event.
Here’s an interesting stat!
Jamaica have failed to bag either the men’s or women’s 100m title at the World Athletics Championships for the first time since 2005. BOOM!
Torie Bowie dips. World Champion in 10.85 sec. Silver to Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Dafne Schippers bronze.
Torie Bowie is the fastest woman in the world!
This is a shocker from Elaine Thompson of Jamaica as she fails to match up to Tori Bowie’s speed. The American sprinter turns her Olympic silver to world gold victory by one hundredth of a second from Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Cote d’Ivoire, 10.85 to 10.86.
Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, who finished third in 10.96, will take the bronze medal. Murielle Ahoure of the Cote d’Ivoire fourth in 10.98, the same time registered by Thompson.
And it has come down to one race, one final competition. It’s the women’s 100m final race as Elaine Thompson aims to add to her Olympic gold
Can Dafne Schippers or Tori Bowie stop Elaine Thompson from winning the women’s 100m final?
Tomas Walsh wins the men’s shot put for New Zealand!
Time for the last three throws in the shot put now. Zunic begins with an average throw, he’d be happy with a bronze medal. USA’s Joe Kovacs is given a red flag for a foot fault in his final throw and the big man is furious right now! So, the gold belongs to Walsh. Walsh with one final throw………. and he makes 22.03m! Walsh, adds an outdoor global title to the World Indoor gold.
In the second men’s 800m semi-final, 21-year-old crowd favourite Kyle Langford has produced his best performance so far. The Briton clocked 1:45.81 behind the front-running Brandon McBride of Canada, who won in 1:45.53.
Furthermore, Kenya’s Kipyegon Bett wins third semi-final, while Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman finishes second.
Well, it’s the World Championships and as spectators, you hop from one event to another. There is absolutely no time for nonsense!
In the first men’s 800m semi-final, Poland’s Adam Kszczot wins the race in a 1 minute and 46.24 seconds, while Botswana’s Nijel Amos finishes second in 1 minute and 46.29 seconds. Kenya’s Ferguson Rotcih was third in 1 minute and 46.49 seconds.
Ekaterini Stefanidi bags gold!
Stefanadi has already won the women’s pole vault ahead of USA’s Sandi Morris who fails with her final attempt to match her clearance of 4.82. Now the Olympic champion has cleared 4.91sec! W.O.W
The Greek pole vaulter successfully adds world championship title to her Olympic gold.
Thiam does it, wins her second global title!
Belgium’s Thiam finished last behind of Germany’s Claudia Salman-Rath and Johnson-Thompson but does enough to earn another global gold as she finishes with 6784 points, ahead of Carolin Schafer, who totals 6696, with Anouk Vetter of the Netherlands taking bronze with 6636.
With that win, Thiam becomes the first gold medallist from Belgium in the history of World Athletics Championships!
Belgium’s Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam has one of the toughest tasks but not the impossible one. She can pick her second global gold at the age of just 23.
Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, has increased the noise levels inside the London Stadium.
Meanwhile, some important results.
Swapna Barman…lane 6…800m…Heptathlon
Packed in every light.
Interestingly, four men are up against each other in the Heat 2 of men’s hurdles. Pozzi started smoothly but faded when it mattered the most as former world champion Shane Brathwaite won the race in a season’s best of 13.26, with Jamaica’s Hansle Parchment second in 13.27, with US hurdler Devon Allen third in the same time. Pozzi was fourth, just 0.01 further back…
Heat 3 up in a few minutes
Time to shift our focus to the men’s 110m hurdles semi-finals.
Omar McLeod powers through to win in 13.10 to qualify for the final, while France’s Garfield Darien takes the lucky automatic qualifying position in 13.17. Defending champion Sergey Shubenkov is waiting to see if his time of 13.22 in third place is good enough.
The men’s 400m final complete list:
Steven Gardiner
Nathon Allen
Wayde van Niekerk
Isaac Makwala
Demish Gaye
Baboloki Thebe
Abdalelah Haroun
Fred Kerley
Told you! Botswana’s Isaac Makwala finishes first in the men’s 400m semi-final in 44.30 seconds. Jamaica’s Demish Gaye follows in 44.55 seconds.
Moreover, Fred Kerley, whose 44.51 and Abalelah Haroun of Qatar’s clocking of 44.64 have sealed the two extra places in Tuesday’s final.
This is how the women’s 100m final will look like. It’s going to be an exciting final!
Ta Lou
Schippers
Thompson
Santos
Bowie
Ahoure
Ahye
Baptiste