World Athletics Championships, Day Nine - Men's and Women's GB Teams take 4x100m Silver, Muir misses medal in 1500m

Dina Asher-Smith won her third medal of the championships with silver in the 4x100m relay. The men's team also took silver, while Laura Muir missed out on a medal in the 1500m final.

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Dina Asher-Smith made British Athletics history, becoming the first Brit to win three medals at a major global athletics champions as the 4x100m relay team won silver in Doha.
The 200m champion and 100m runner-up moved from the anchor leg to the second leg in a late change as Great Britain came second to Jamaica.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who beat Asher-Smith to the 100m title, starred for the Jamaica team to win her second gold medal of the championships, with United States taking bronze.
Fraser-Pryce's second leg made the difference for the eventual winners, giving Jamaica a big lead over the chasing pack.
Jonielle Smith maintained the lead in the bend before Shericka Jackson finished with a time of 41.44 seconds.
Imani-Lara Lansiquot was replaced by Asha Philip late on, after sustaining an injury in the warm-up, with Asher-Smith and Ashleigh Nelson performing faultless handovers before Daryll Neita held off Kiara Parker of the USA.
GB finished in 41.85 - a season's best - while the USA also ran their best time of the year with 42.10.
Asher-Smith revealed after the race that the British quartet had not practised the baton changes in their warm-up after Neita was moved from opening to the anchor leg.
In addition to the three medals for Asher-Smith, the men's 4x100m relay team took silver for Great Britain, amounting to five medals in total, with more British medal chances coming in the final day of the competition, with events such as the men's 1500m and women's 4x400m.

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Great Britain's new European record time of 37.36 was enough to take silver in the men's 4x100m relay, despite a hamstring injury to Zharnel Hughes.
The gold medal went to USA, with their 37.10 becoming the second fastest in history, behind Jamaica's world record from the 2012 Olympics.
Adam Gemili, Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake pushed the Americans close, with Japan taking bronze on 37.43.
Despite struggling with the changeovers, Team USA had an all-star team including 100m gold and silver medallists Christian Coleman and Justin Gatlin and 200m gold medallist Noah Lyles.
Michael Rodgers ran a solid third leg around the bend, with Lyles' raw speed bringing home the title on the anchor leg.
The British team will be happy with their result, matching the corresponding women's team in this event, taking a 10th of a second off their gold-winning time from 2017 despite Hughes injury and two minor fumbles at baton changes.

Britons Shara Proctor and Abigail Irozuru had earlier qualified for the women's long jump final, jumping 6.63m and 6.70m respectively.
29-year-old Irozuru qualified in sixth, while former world silver medallist Proctor, 31, was eighth in qualification.

Both the British men's and women's teams qualified for the 4x400m relay finals, with the male quartet of Cameron Chambers, Rabah Yousif, Martyn Rooney and Lee Thompson just scraping through after a disqualification for Botswana.
Zoey Clark, Jodie Williams, Jessica Turner and Laviai Nielsen finished in 3:24.99, the third fastest time in qualifying.

25-year-old Cindy Ofili finished third in her 100m hurdles heat to progress to the semi-finals, the Brit agonisingly missed out on an Olympic medal in Rio, finishing fourth.
The woman who won that Olympic final, Brianna McNeal, was a hot favourite to take gold in Doha, but the American was disqualified for a false start in the heats.
McNeal was visibly upset leaving the track, with this being her first global championships since the 2016 Olympics after missing London 2017 while banned for missing three drugs tests.

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The United States added to their medal haul at the top of the table, with the 11th gold coming from Joe Kovacs in the men's shot put.
His winning throw of 22.91m is the joint third best of all time, with his compatriot and pre-event favourite Ryan Crouser taking silver.
The Olympic champion threw 22.90, matched by New Zealand's Tom Walsh, but the American claimed second place due to his second best throw beating Walsh's second best.

Yulimar Rojas successfully defended her women's triple jump, with the Venezuelan jumping 15.37m.
Jamaica's Shanieka Ricketts took silver and bronze went to Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia.
The men's javelin saw Johannes Vetter qualify best, with a throw of 89.35m for the German.
His compatriots - Olympic champion Thomas Rohler and 2018 Diamond League winner Andreas Hoffman - could not progress alongside Vetter though.

The organisers had earlier announced that fan attendance on Friday was over 40,000 for the first time in the championships.
Local favourite Mutaz Barshim was competing in the men's high jump, with 42,180 people in attendance to see the Qatari in action - more than five times as many at the attendance on Sunday night for the women's 100m final.

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Despite not finishing in a medal position, Laura Muir was happy with her performance in the 1500m final.
The 26-year-old Scot finished just outside her personal best time in fifth place as Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan took gold in a championship record time of 3:51.95.
A calf problem meant that before coming to Doha, Muir had not raced since July.
The silver medal went to the defending champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, and Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay took bronze.
The ease by which Muir made it to the final suggested her training camp in South Africa was paying off, but she couldn't stop an imperious Hassan from taking her second gold of the championships.
Muir has now finished in the top seven at the Olympics or World Championships five times.
At London 2017 she came fourth and sixth in the 1500m and 5,000m respectively, before taking her first major outdoor title with European 1500m gold in Berlin.
Injury hampered her preparations for these championships, and if she had been fully fit, Muir might have crept into a medal position.
With one eye on a potential first major global medal next year at the Olympics, she could be denied by Ethiopian world record holder Genzebe Dibaba who is expected to have recovered from her injury.

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The were no British medals in the women's 5,000m as Laura Weightman and Eilish McColgan finished in seventh and 10th respectively.
Both ran personal bests but were unable to keep up with the pace set by defending champion and Olympic silver medallist Hellen Obiri.
11 of the top 14 finishers set lifetime bests, with Weightman taking seven seconds of her previous best set in London in July, finishing in 14:44.57.
McColgan knocked two seconds off, setting a new Scottish record of 14:46.17.
These two times are the third and fourth best by British women in this event behind Paula Radcliffe and Jo Pavey.
Neither were able to influence the leading group, with Kenyan Obiri putting on a late spurt to take gold ahead of compatriot Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi in second and Germany's Konstanze Klosterhalfen in third.

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Another near miss for Britain came in the men's marathon as Callum Hawkins finished in fourth, six seconds off the podium places, as Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa took gold.
The 27-year-old, who was also fourth at London 2017, caught the leading trio with less than a mile to go, before they broke away to take the medal positions.
Desisa won in 2:10.40, ahead of his compatriot Mosinet Geremew and Kenyan Amos Kipruto.
This is a brilliant return to for for Hawkins, who collapsed while leading the marathon at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
That being said, the conditions here were much more tolerable than those in Australia and those during the women's marathon at the start of the championships.
Hawkins looked out of contention around the halfway point when a group of five - including eventual champion Desisa - broke away from the rest.
However, the Scot's preparation of heaters in his garden shed paid dividend, and he got a second wind to catch up to the leaders.
Just as he looked likely to take the lead, the three upped the pace again, with a thrilling sprint between the Ethiopians for gold eventually being won by the 2013 silver medallist.

RESULTS
Day Nine - 5 October
Men's Shot Put
1. Joe Kovacs (USA) 22.91m CR
2. Ryan Crouser (USA) 22.90m PB
3. Thomas Walsh (NZL) 22.90m AR

Women's Triple Jump
1. Yulimar Rojas (VEN) 15.37m 

2. Shanieka Ricketts (JAM) 14.92m

3. Caterine Ibarguen (COL) 14.73m

Women's 1500m
1. Sifan Hassan (NED) 3:51.95 CR, AR

2. Faith Kipyegon (KEN) 3:54.22 NR
3. Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) 3:54.38 PB

Women's 5000m
1. Hellen Obiri (KEN) 14:26.72 

2. Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi (KEN) 14:27.49 PB 

3. Konstanze Klosterhalfen (GER) 14:28.43

Women's 4x100m Relay
1. Jamaica (JAM) Natalliah Whyte/Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce/Jonielle Smith/Shericka Jackson/Natasha Morrison* 41.44 WL 

2. United Kingdom (UK) Asha Philip/Dina Asher-Smith/Ashleigh Nelson/Daryll Neita/Imani-Lara Lansiquot* 41.85 SB 

3. United States (USA) Dezerea Bryant/Teahna Daniels/Morolake Akinosun/Kiara Parker 42.10 SB
* Athletes only competed in the heats but received medals

Men's 4x100m Relay
1. United States (USA) Christian Coleman/Justin Gatlin/Mike Rodgers/Noah Lyles/Cravon Gillespie* 37.10 WL 

2. United Kingdom (UK) Adam Gemili/Zharnel Hughes/Richard Kilty/Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 37.36 AR 

3. Japan (JPN) Shuhei Tada/Kirara Shiraishi/Yoshihide Kiryū/Abdul Hakim Sani Brown/Yuki Koike* 37.43 AR
* Athletes only competed in the heats but received medals

Men's Marathon
1. Lelisa Desisa (ETH) 2:10:40 SB 

2. Mosinet Geremew (ETH) 2:10:44 

3. Amos Kipruto (KEN) 2:10:51

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

SCHEDULE
Day 10 - 6 October
17:05 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Semi-Final
17:15 - Women's Long Jump - Final
17:40 - Men's 1500m - Final
17:55 - Men's Javelin Throw - Final
18:00 - Men's 10,000m - Final
18:50 - Women's 100m Hurdles - Final
19:15 - Women's 4x400m Relay - Final
19:30 - Men's 4x400m Relay - Final

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