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On this final day of the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22, we must start at the end. The USA closed their most successful championships in history (33 medals) with a dream gold for both the men and the women in the 4x400m. The first World Athletics Championships on home soil couldn’t have ended in a more glorious way. We were ...

What a day! It was an action-packed day nine with six finals, including both women’s and men’s 4x100m relays that made the crowd roar and saw USA and Canada take gold, respectively. Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo won the men’s triple jump with an impressive 17.95m leap, and Kenya’s Emmanuel Korir shone in the men’s 800m to climb the highest step of the podium. The men’s javelin throw battle between India’s ...

Today’s early birds witnessed something that you don’t often see: two world race walking golds at the same championships, achieved by Kimberly Garcia Leon. The 4x100m qualifications had the whole stadium on edge, and saw USA come out on top in the women’s and men’s events, while Kelsey-Lee Barber became the first woman to win back-to-back world javelin titles.Shauna Miller-Uibo claimed her first world ...

As the last day without a morning session, day seven kick-started with the javelin throw qualifications, which saw Grenada’s defending world champion Anderson Peters throw 89.91m – a mark that would have been enough to win all but four world javelin titles. The 200m finals gifted us with a show impossible to forget. The women’s event saw Shericka Jackson lead a Jamaican 1-2 in ...

Norah Jeruto clocks the third fastest time ever to win the women’s 3000m steeplechase and Feng Bin from China becomes world champion in the women’s discus throw with an impressive 69.12m. One medal for Letesenbet Gidey doesn’t seem to be enough. The Ethiopian athlete, who was just crowned 10,000m world champion, is out for more and leads the women’s 5000m qualification. USA’s Michael Norman comes out on ...