World Athletics Championships, Day Eight - British Men's and Women's teams through to 4x100m finals, Muhammad breaks own world record

Dalilah Muhammad broke her own world record in the 400m hurdles final, while both the men and women British teams in the 4x100m relay qualified for their finals.

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Dina Asher-Smith's hopes of a third medal at the championships remain intact as both her British women's team and the men's team qualified for the 4x100m relay finals.
Defending champions in the men's event, the British team won their hear with a world leading time of 37.56 seconds in Doha.
All three of the British men in the 1500m semi-finals progressed to the final, with Neil Gourley, Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman all looking in good form.
Dalilah Muhammad set a second world record of the year as the American won women's 400m hurdles gold.
With the attendances at the Khalifa Stadium coming under scrutiny at the championships, home favourite Mutaz Essa Barshim had a large crowd cheering him on as he defended his men's high jump title.

200m champion and 100m silver medallist Asher-Smith sat out of Friday's relay heat, but will be brought into the quartet for the final.
Asha Philip, Imani-Lara Lansiquot, Ashleigh Nelson and Daryll Neita kept their composure to run a season's best time of 42.25. 
Nelson was involved in a baton-exchange error at the World Relay Championships earlier in the year, but her changeover to Neita for the anchor leg was faultless.
The heat was won by Jamaica - whose team included 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce - in 42.11, while defending champions USA won their heat.
Adam Gemili, Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake impressed in the British men's team, winning their heat by a distance.
Brazil came second and the American team including 100m champion Christian Coleman finished third.

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The Scottish trio of Gourley, Kerr and Wightman made history - it is the first time three British men have qualified for a 1500m world championship final.
24-year-old Gourley came third in the first semi-final, 21-year-old Kerr was fourth in the second and Commonwealth bronze medallist Wightman was one of two fastest losers, finishing in 3:36.85.
Poland's Marcin Lewandowski qualified fastest, just 0.35 seconds faster than 25-year-old Wightman.
Norwegian European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen came third in the second semi-final, with his brother Filip - 2017 world bronze medallist - missed out on the final after coming seventh in the first semi-final.

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Muhammad held off compatriot Sydney McLaughlin to win the women's 400m hurdles final in 52.16, shaving 0.04 seconds off the world record time she set in July.
The 29-year-old was pushed all the way by her 20-year-old compatriot, with McLaughlin clocking the third fastest time ever of 52.23.
Rushell Clayton of Jamaica claimed bronze in 53.74, while there was an even closer finish between the top two in the men's 3,000m steeplechase.
A photo finish declared that Conseslus Kipruto defended his title, the Kenyan pipping Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma to the gold medal.
24-year-old Olympic champion Kipruto recovered from a stress fracture in his foot before travelling to Doha, to run 8:01.35 - 0.01 seconds ahead of his 18-year-old rival, while Britain's Zak Seddon came 15th.

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Barshim won the host Qatar's first gold of the championships as he defended his men's high jump title, clearing 2.37m.
Just over a year ago, the 28-year-old suffered ankle ligament damage, so his fitness and form were in question before Doha.
The rupture was sustained in July 2018 as he tried to break Javier Sotomayor's world record of 2.45m.
Those questions were put to bed when he cleared a season's best of 2.29m to qualify, before his competitors could only manage 2.35m.
That was the height that both the silver and bronze medallist cleared - Mikhail Akimenko and Ilya Ivanyuk, both Russian competing as Authorised Neutral Athletes.

Steven Gardiner won the men's 400m title, stunning the favourite Fred Kerley with the sixth fastest time in history.
The Bahamian ran 43.48 seconds, with Colombia's Anthony Jose Zambrano a surprise second in 44.15, with American Kerley 0.02 seconds further back.
Kerley had run 43.64 in the summer, so will be disappointed not to have pushed Gardiner more.
The men's 20km walk race was won in 1:26:34 by Japanese Toshikazu Yamanishi, Russia's Vasily Mizinov - another Authorised Neutral Athlete - came second in 1:26:49 and Perseus Karlstrom of Sweden took bronze in 1:27:00.
In temperatures around 31°C, It was a disappointing event for both Brits in the race, with Tom Bosworth finishing seventh in 1:29:34, but Callum Wilkinsin was disqualified in the closing stages of the race.
He had led the race around the 6km mark, but a fourth red card towards the end left him in tears.
Cuba took gold and silver in the women's discus, Yaime Perez won with 69.17m, followed by Denia Caballero with 68.44m.
Two-time Olympic and world champion Sandra Perkovic took bronze for Croatia, with 66.72m.

RESULTS
Day Eight - 4 October
Men's High Jump
1. Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) 2.37m WL 

2. Mikhail Akimenko (ANA) 2.35m PB 

3. Ilya Ivanyuk (ANA) 2.35m PB

Women's Discus Throw
1. Yaime Pérez (CUB) 69.17m
2. Denia Caballero (CUB) 68.44m
3. Sandra Perković (CRO) 66.72m

Women's 400m Hurdles
1. Dalilah Muhammad (USA) 52.16s WR 

2. Sydney McLaughlin (USA) 52.23s 

3. Rushell Clayton (JAM) 53.74s

Men's 3000m Steeplechase
1. Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 8:01.35 WL 

2. Lamecha Girma (ETH) 8:01.36 NR 

3. Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR) 8:03.76 SB

Men's 400m
1. Steven Gardiner (BAH) 43.48s NR

2. Anthony Zambrano (COL) 44.15s AR

3. Fred Kerley (USA) 44.17s PB

Men's 20km Race Walk
1. Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 1:26:34
2. Vasiliy Mizinov (ANA) 1:26:49
3. Perseus Karlström (SWE) 1:27:00

Key
WR - world record
AR - area record
NR - national record
PB - personal best
SB - season best
WL - world leading (in a given season)

SCHEDULE
Day Nine - 5 October
14:30 - Men's Javelin Throw - Qualification Group A
15:15 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Heats
15:50 - Women's Long Jump - Qualification
16:00 - Men's Javelin Throw - Qualification Group B
17:55 - Women's 4x400m Relay - Heats
18:05 - Men's Shot Put - Final 

18:25 - Men's 4x400m Relay - Heats
18:35 - Women's Triple Jump - Final
18:55 - Women's 1500m - Final
19:25 - Women's 5000m - Final
20:05 - Women's 4x100m Relay - Final
20:15 - Men's 4x100m Relay - Final
21:59 - Men's Marathon - Final

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