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Olympic champs rule the roost
Two-time Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic lifted her second world javelin throw title at the IAAF World Championships here, South African Wayde Van Niekerk was in a class of his own to claim the 400m title while Poland\'s Anita Wlodarczyk completed a hat trick of women\'s hammer throw world titles.
IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
London: Two-time Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic lifted her second world javelin throw title at the IAAF World Championships here, South African Wayde Van Niekerk was in a class of his own to claim the 400m title while Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk completed a hat trick of women's hammer throw world titles.
World and Olympic champion Van Niekerk finished well clear in 43.98 seconds on Tuesday night, reports Xinhua news agency.
"It is amazing to win the world title. I hope the fans enjoyed that," the South African said.
Steven Gardiner of Bahamas clocked 44.41 for the silver and was followed by Abdalelah Haroun of Qatar in 44.48.
The 36-year-old Spotakova, who won her last world title in 2007 in Osaka, won the gold medal with an effort of 66.76 metres in her second attempt.
China's Li Lingwei, a two-time Asian champion, produced a lifetime best of 66.25 to take the silver and her teammate Lyu Huihui settled for the bronze at 65.26.
In the women's hammer throw, Wlodarczyk, who won the event in 2009 and 2015, bagged the gold medal with a throw of 77.90 meters in her fifth attempt, adding the title to her two Olympic titles in 2012 and 2016.
China's Wang Zheng brought China its first medal at the world championships here in 75.98m. The Asian record holder was jubilant after securing the silver.
Another Polish Malwina Kopron took bronze in 74.76 meters and Beijing worlds silver medalist Zhang Wenxiu from China finished a disappointing fourth in 74.53.
The 110m hurdles saw McLeod, gold medalist in the Rio Olympics, clock 13.04 seconds to rank first ahead of Russia's defending champion Sergey Shubenkov, who was given green-light for the championships as an authorized neutral athlete by the IAAF.
Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya turned her 1500m silver at Beijing two years ago to a gold medal as the 23-year-old pulled away in the last 50 meters to clock 4:02.59 to win.
Reigning world indoor champion Yulimar Rojas made history by claiming the women's triple jump gold medal in 14.91m.
"I am so proud about this gold medal. This is a great victory for my country," the 21-year-old said.
Xue Changrui had looked he could make an amazing breakthrough by winning China's first ever men's pole vault medal.
However, he failed to clear 5.89m and American Sam Kendricks claimed the title with 5.95m and Polish Piotr Lisek bagged a silver at 5.89m.
Olympic gold medallist Conseslus Kipruto finally came to a golden finish in the men's 3,000m steeplechase at the world championships after two runner-up finishes at previous worlds as the Kenyan clocked 8:14.12 min.
Pierre-Ambroise Bosse of France lifted his first world title in men's 800m as the he clocked a season best of 1:44.67. The silver and bronze medals belonged to Adam Kszczot of Poland and Kipyegon Bett of Kenya respectively.
