Faith Cherotich and Isaac Nader strode into the international spotlight, while Katie Moon and Mattia Furlani added to their global gold medal hauls on day five of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kenya\u2019s Cherotich, bronze medallist at the last World Championships and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, ran a championship record to get 3000m steeplechase gold this time, while Portugal\u2019s Nader secured a surprise victory in the 1500m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USA\u2019s Moon retained her pole vault title with a last-gasp clearance and Italy\u2019s Furlani became the youngest ever men\u2019s world long jump champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cherotich upstaged world and Olympic champion Winfred Yavi to win the women’s 3000m steeplechase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 21-year-old, already a two-time global bronze medallist, tracked Yavi for most of the race, but started to kick with half a lap to go. Flying over the final water jump, she propelled herself into the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cherotich sprinted away to win in a championship record of 8:51.59, finishing almost five seconds clear of Yavi (8:56.46). Ethiopia’s Sembo Almayew took bronze in a PB of 8:58.86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nader also timed his finish to perfection to take a surprise men’s 1500m win.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All eyes were on the past two world champions \u2013 Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman \u2013 and medal hope Niels Laros in the early stages. But on the penultimate lap, Kerr was struck by a leg injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wightman took the lead with 200m to go and appeared to be on his way to victory, just about holding off the rest of the pack. But Nader emerged from the group in the closing stages to take victory by 0.02 in 3:34.10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wightman secured silver in 3:34.12 and Kenya\u2019s Reynold Cheruiyot got bronze in 3:34.25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moon clinched her third consecutive world pole vault title with a last-gasp clearance of 4.90m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had been locked in battle with her US compatriot Sandi Morris up to that point. After Moon managed that season’s best height on her third and final attempt, Morris took a chance and moved the bar to 4.95m, with one attempt remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it was a bar too far and so Morris secured a fourth World Championships silver medal since her first in 2017. Moon went on to have one attempt at 5.01m and then called it a day, her crown secured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bronze went to Slovenia’s Tina Sutej on 4.80m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furlani added the outdoor world long jump crown to the world indoor title he claimed in Nanjing in March, soaring 8.39m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In doing so, he became the youngest winner of this event at the World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 20-year-old managed his eventual winning mark in the fifth round to leap ahead of Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle, who had jumped 8.34m to equal his season’s best in the fourth round. That remained his best of the competition and so Gayle secured silver with a distance just a single centimetre farther than Shi Yuhao of China’s leap from the second round for bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer was just three centimetres off that to narrowly miss out on a medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bryan Levell stormed to the fastest ever 200m heat at a global championships, clocking 19.84 to lead the list of qualifiers for the semifinals on Thursday. Noah Lyles remains on track for his title defence, while Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo and Kenny Bednarek also progressed along with Zimbabwe\u2019s Olympic finalists Tapiwanashe Makarawu and Makanakaishe Charamba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
USA\u2019s Anavia Battle and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden topped the 200m heats, respectively clocking 22.07 and 22.24, keeping Jefferson-Wooden\u2019s dreams of a sprint double alive. Defending champion Shericka Jackson also cruised through the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the favourites safely booked their places in the 400m hurdles finals. Femke Bol and Dalilah Muhammad took the top two spots in their heat, while Anna Cockrell won hers. The third heat winner was Panama\u2019s Gianna Woodruff, who took more than a second off her own South American record with 52.66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men\u2019s final will feature the three fastest 400m hurdlers of all time: Karsten Warholm, Rai Benjamin and Alison dos Santos, plus Ezekiel Nathaniel and Abderrahman Samba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men’s javelin final will have 12 athletes from 11 different nationalities, covering five continental areas. Two-time world champion Anderson Peters launched 89.53m to top the qualification round as all the leading contenders made it through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yasser Mohammed Triki and Jordan Scott were the two athletes to reach the automatic qualification mark of 17.10m in triple jump qualification. They\u2019ll be joined in the final by Pedro Pichardo, Hugues Fabrice Zango and Andy Diaz Hernandez, but Jordan Diaz and Wu Ruiting \u2013 the latter who is second on this season\u2019s top list \u2013 won\u2019t feature as they respectively failed to record a mark and had a best of 16.74m, which was not enough to advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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