World Athletics Championships, Day Four - Asher-Smith and Gemili proceed in 200m, Warholm defends 400m Hurdles crown

Dina Asher-Smith and Adam Gemili both progressed to the respective next rounds in the 200m sprints, while Norway's Karsten Warholm defended his 400m hurdles title.

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Dina Asher-Smith continued her purple patch of form, winning her 200m heat in 22.32 seconds, after winning her first major global medal on Monday.
The 23-year-old claimed 100m silver in Doha, and ran the fastest time of the day in the 200m, with compatriots Jodie Williams and Beth Dobbin also progressing.
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson advanced but former bronze medallist Blessing Okagbare was disqualifed.
The withdrawal of 100m bronze medallist Marie-Josee Ta Lou and the disqualification of Okagbare have boosted Asher-Smith's medal hopes, in an event that was already without Dutch defending champions Dafne Schippers and 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica.
Asher-Smith is this season's number one in this event, she is a firm favourite to go one better than her 100m silver in this one, and it will take something special from one of her competitors to take the gold from her.
The Brit is the only constant from the top four of this event two years ago in London, with Bahamian Shaunau Miller-Uibo choosing to run in the 400m due to the schedule of these championships.
Of those still in contention, only Thompson has run a faster 200m that Asher-Smith this year, but the Jamaican came fourth in the 100m and was seventh fastest in the 200m heats.

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Adam Gemili progressed to the final in the men's 200m, but Zharnel Hughes missed out.
He ran another season's best, but the wait for a British medallist in this evnt may go past 26 years, with John Regis the last to do so in 1993.
Gemili's 20.03 - improvement by three hundredths of a second from his time in the heat - proves he is in peak condition after hamstring problems in recent years.
World 100m finalist Hughes ran 20.30 to finish third in his semi-final, not fast enough for one of the two fastest losers' places.
Miguel Francis - who was the fastest Briton this season - withdrew after his heat with a hamstring injury.
American Noah Lyles is still the favourite, winning his heat in 19.86.
The 22-year-old from Florida ran the fourth fastest time ever at Lausanne this year with 19.50.
Alex Quinonez narrowly missed out on a personal best, he ran 19.87 earlier this year, and came second to Lyles in 19.95.
Andrew Pozzi reached the semi-finals of the 100m hurdles, the Brit came through third in his heat running 13.53 seconds.
Laviai Nielsen and Emily Diamond both progressed to Tuesday's semi-finals of the women's 400m.
The former finished third in her heat, while the latter ran a season's best of 51.66 to qualify as a fastest loser.

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Karsten Warholm held off close rival Rai Benjamin to defend his 400m hurdles world title.
The Norwegian took the lead just before the home straight, and stayed just ahead of the American to win in 47.42 seconds.
Qatar's Abderrahman Samba came third, but it is 23-year-old Warholm who will take the headlines, who timed his form to perfection ahead of the championships two year ago in London, and has done similarly before travelling to Doha.
He recorded a 46.92 - the second fastest of all time - earlier this year, behind only Kevin Young of the USA whose record of 46.78 has stood for 27 years.
22-year-old Benjamin, had also gone under 47 seconds this season, and the battle between the top two of this discipline certainly lived up to the expectation

Photo from IAAF

Another thrilling final took place in the men's 5000m, with Muktar Edris defending his title by holding off compatriot Selemon Barega in the home straight to finish in 12:58.85.
The last lap saw European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway take the front, only to be reeled in by the Ethiopian duo, supported by a large section of travelling fans.
Mohammed Ahmed of Canada claimed bronze, while the youngest Ingebrigtsen brother came fourth.
Henrik Ingebrigtsen finished 13th while the third sibling, Filip, did not finish.

Uganda's Halimah Nakaayi shocked the world in the women's 800m, taking gold in 1:58.04 with world number one Ajee Wilson of the USA failing to hold on to the lead she had going into the home straight.
Raevyn Rogers produced a great finish to overtake her compatriot Wilson, all in a competition without reigning world and Olympic Champion Caster Semenya.
The IAAF introduced a new rule before the championships stating that athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - which applies to the South African - wishing to compete in distances on the track between 400m and the mile, must take testosterone reducing medicine or choose another event.

Mariya Lasitskene won a successive third title in the women's high jump.
The Russian - competing under the Authorised Neutral Athletes flag - cleared 2.04m, which was matched by Ukraine's Mahuchikh, but the teenager declined the chance to try and improve, as she had already become the youngest field medallist ever at the World Championships, just 11 days after her 18th birthday.
Former world indoor champion Vashti Cunningham of the USA took bronze.

Beatrice Chepkoech led for nearly the whole race in the women's 3,000m steeplechase, starting at a world record pace.
The Kenyan set a World Championship record of 8:57.84, with defending champion Emma Coburn of the USA in second, and Germany's Gesa Krause taking bronze.

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Daniel Stahl went one better than his world silver medal two years ago by claiming his first world title in the discus.
The Swede threw 67.59m in the third round to win, with Jamaica's Fedrick Dacres taking silver and Austria's Lukas Weisshaidinger bronze.
The 27-year-old ran down the length of the discus field before clearing one of the hurdles set up on the track.

RESULTS
Day Four - 30 September
Women's High Jump
1. Mariya Lasitskene (ANA) 2.04m

2. Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) 2.04m World under-20 record

3. Vashti Cunningham (USA) 2.00m PB

Men's 5000m
1. Muktar Edris (ETH) 12:58.85 SB 
2. Selemon Barega (ETH) 12:59.70 
3. Mohammed Ahmed (CAN) 13:01.11

Men's Discus Throw
1. Daniel Ståhl (SWE) 67.59m
2. Fedrick Dacres (JAM) 66.94m
3. Lukas Weißhaidinger (AUT) 66.82m

Women's 3000m Steeplechase
1. Beatrice Chepkoech (KEN) 8:57.84 CR
2. Emma Coburn (USA) 9:02.35 PB

3. Gesa Felicitas Krause (GER) 9:03.30 NR

Women's 800m
1. Halimah Nakaayi (UGA) 1:58.04 NR 

2. Raevyn Rogers (USA) 1:58.18 SB 

3. Ajee Wilson (USA) 1:58.84

Men's 400m Hurdles
1. Karsten Warholm (NOR) 47.42s 

2. Rai Benjamin (USA) 47.66s

3. Abderrahman Samba (QAT) 47.90s

Key
CR - championship record
NR - national record
PB - personal best
SB - season best

SCHEDULE
Day Five - 1 October
14:30 - Men's Hammer Throw - Qualification Group A
14:35 - Men's 400m Heats
14:50 - Men's High Jump - Qualification
15:30 - Women's 400m Hurdles - Heats
16:00 - Men's Hammer Throw - Qualification Group B
16:15 - Men's 3000m Steeplechase - Heats
18:05 - Men's Pole Vault - Final 
18:50 - Women's 400m - Semi-Final
19:20 - Women's Javelin Throw - Final 
19:35 - Women's 200m - Semi-Final
20:10 - Men's 800m - Final
20:40 - Men's 200m - Final

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