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With 1300m to go, Hironaka still leads, the gap 31.1m. The pack are closing but I think she’ll be OK; meantime, Kipyegon goes to the front of the leading pack, Tsegay behind her.
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In 1987, Fatima Whitbread won Sports Personality of the Year on account of her gold medal in this meeting. There’s a fair chance she’s the last javeliner so to do.
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Hironaka is now way out in front after 1800m, her lead towards 100m. Behind her, everyone is in touch, Van Lent of Belgium and Garcia of Spain in second and third.
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So far, Kipyegon is letting the race go and the others do the work – I think she’ll be ok – then Yadav of India goes second in the javelin with 86.27. So far, the favourites aren’t justifying their status, but there’s a long way to go
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The second heat in the women’s 5000m is under way; Hironaka of Japan leads in the early stages. Meantime, Thompson of USA throws 86.67 to lead that javelin event.
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The men’s javelin final is under way, but I’m afraid it’s not the same without Steve Backley, Mick Hill and Jan Zelezny – or maybe I’m just lamenting my distant youth. The best in the world this year is Julian Weber of Germany with 91.51, but Anderson Peters of Grenada has the best PB, 93.07, while Neeraj Chopra of India and Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan are also threats.
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Nuttall looks warm but delighted and tells BBC that the start was hot but she thought she could catch up and, when it slowed down, she did. She knew some of the girls like to take it out, but her plan was just to stay calm and she did.
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Killers are killers, so obviously Chebet kicks to make sure she wins – in 14.45.59and the others know how much she has left. Following her home and into the final are Battocletti of Italy, Houlihan of USA, Koster of Netherlands, Tanaka of Japan, Belayneh of Ethiopia, Nuttall of GB and Cheptoyek of Uganda.
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Tanaka slows it down again, Koster of the Netherlands coming alongside. Nuttall has caught the pack, so it’s eight from nine … and Haylom of Ethiopia drops off. The pack is down to eight, Tanaka leading them around and qualifying is resolved. They could walk the final 300m and still make the final
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The pace slows again, Tanaka still in front, and the leading group comprises four, with two behind and two more behind them – unless Hannah Nuttall, ninth, closes the gap, those will be the qualifiers, and she picks it up with 1000m to go.
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We’re almost halfway, Tanaka now in front and without a sprint finish, upping the pace. Chebet, who won this event and the 10 in Paris, goes with her, and the field is now pretty stretched. Those who want to qualify will have to work: there’ll be no free riding followed by a dash.
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Updated at 12.16 CEST
Back on the track, Yamamoto leads from Tanaka, with Battocletti of Italy third and Chebet fourth.
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Oli Goldman reminds me that, when reminiscing about the 1991 worlds, I neglected to mention the GB 4x400m quarter changing up their order and Kriss Akabusi taking out Antonio Pettigrew, the individual champion, in the final few strides. I was actually looking for and failing to find photos of the t-shirts made thereafter, featuring Roger Black’s post-race line, “We kicked their butts”, then got distracted.
Here’s the race, though – and if you’re not familiar, it’s a belter.
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Off we go in the first heat of the women’s 5000m. Tanaka of Japan, who didn’t make the 1500m final, goes to the front, her teammate Yamamoto behind her.
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Jake Wightman had a good night last evening, a bit of karaoke and sake, he confesses to BBC. He’s checked the last lap to make sure he did all he could to win; someone else was better on the day, he says.
I guess he might wonder if he’d waited just five more metres before kicking, because he was so close to seeing it out. But, as he explains, he’s come back from so many injuries and stayed near the front the whole race in the knowledge he’d eventually strike; he did, and he got his silver.
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Updated at 12.05 CEST
The women’s 5000m heats will soon be upon us. Final qualification is generous – the first eight in each heat go through – with Beatrice Chebet in the first and Faith Kipyegon in the second. For GB, Melissa Courtney-Bryant and Hannah Nuttall go in the first and Innes Fitzgerald the second.
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Updated at 12.06 CEST
The more I think about it, the more the 1991 worlds are up there as the best meet of my lifetime. The greatest men’s 100m and long jump ever, a great finish in the men’s 400m, Michael Johnson and Noureddine Morceli also taking golds; then Katrin Krabbe doing the sprint double and the great Marie-Jose Perec taking the 400m. Then, three weeks later, Nevermind was released.
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Steve Cram just joked that it’s freezing tonight, only 28 degrees, so many the athletes will run in tracksuits. That put me in mind of Derartu Tulu, who won the 10,000m at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with a t-shirt under her vest, as others – Liz McColgan in particular – wilted in the heat.
And that put me in mind of the women’s 10,000 at the 1991 Tokyo world championships, Liz McColgan destroying the field in the heat.
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The best thing I’ve seen today – so far.
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こんにちは – kon’nichiwa – and welcome to the World Athletics Championships – night six!
And it’s another stacked session. We’ve various qualifying to enjoy – women’s 5000m featuring Faith Kipyegon, plus high jump and 800m, featuring Kelly Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell – along with a pair of field finals – men’s javelin, women’s triple jump. But it’s the sprints that’ll really get us going.
First, we’ve the semi-finals of the women’s 2o0m, as Sherickah Jackson of Jamaica takes on a powerful American contingent led by Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the surging 100m champion. Meantime, in the men’s competition, we get another look at Gout Gout, while Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo and Kenny Bednarek, the medal favourites, jostle for position. So far, so tantalising.
Then, after the semis of what promises to be an extremely stressful set of men’s 800m semis, just two from each heat to qualify, we’ve both 400m finals. First go the men, with Botswana’s Collen Kebinatshipi having set down a marker out of nowhere, running a world-leading time in the previous round. He had plenty left at the end, too, while South Africa’s Zakithi Nene looks equal parts graceful and strong.
But it’s the women’s 400m for which we’re really waiting, the big three way front of the rest. Mariledy Paulino, the Dominican Olympic champion, fancies herself and rightly so, but Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain have been more impressive so far, her PB of 48.14 also the fastest in the field.
Problem being, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is a genius, having moved across from the 400m hurdles for the challenge and looking like she’s been running flat all her life. She was spectacularly good in the semis, devastating her personal best by half a second while barely seeming to make contact with the track, and if she gets it going today, Marita Koch’s world record of 47.60 – one of the oldest in the book, set in 1985 – is under threat. The race may be her against the others, but it may also be her against the clock.
Action: 7.05pm local, 11.05am BST.
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Updated at 11.45 CEST