World Athletics Championships and TDK

・Cuba’s Ivan Pedroso won his fourth world long jump title.
・Jan Zelezny threw a championship record of 92.80m to earn his third world javelin title.
・Germany’s Lars Riedel won his fifth world discus title, setting a championship record of 69.72m.
・Ethiopia’s Gezahegne Abera, who had taken the Olympic title one year prior, won the marathon by one second from Kenya’s Simon Biwott.

・Two years after taking silver, Fiona May won the long jump gold by one centimetre to regain her world title from six years prior.
・Nine years after her historic Olympic triumph, Ethiopia’s Derartu Tulu won the 10,000m by 0.04.

・In a nail-biting showdown against 1500m winner Hicham El Guerrouj and 10,000m champion Kenenisa Bekele, an up-and-coming Eliud Kipchoge – aged 18 at the time – won the 5000m.
・USA’s Allen Johnson won his fourth world 110m hurdles title.
・Poland’s Robert Korzeniowski established the first official world record for the 50km race walk, winning his third world title at that discipline.

・Carolina Kluft, aged just 20, made a big breakthrough to win the heptathlon, adding more than 300 points to her PB to break the 7000-point barrier.
・Eunice Barber, having had to settle for silver in her specialist discipline, the heptathlon, bounced back from that disappointment to win the long jump, much to the delight of the home crowd.
・Anchored by Christine Arron, France won the 4x100m on home soil, sending the crowd into a frenzy.

・Presented to Jefferson Perez (Men's 20km Race Walk)
・Presented to Robert Korzeniowski (Men's 50km Race Walk)

・Lithuania’s Virgilijus Alekna threw a final-round effort of 70.17m in the discus to move into first place and break the championship record, earning his fourth global title in the process.
・Despite a torrential downpour, USA’s Bershawn Jackson won the 400m hurdles in a lifetime best of 47.30.

・Dorcus Inzikuru made history, not only just from winning the inaugural global title in the women’s steeplechase, but also by earning Uganda’s first ever world title in athletics.
・Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba became the first woman to achieve the 5000m and 10,000m double at the World Championships.
・Cuba’s Osleidys Menendez regained her world title from four years prior, breaking the world record in the process with 71.70m.

・In a thrilling long jump duel against Andrew Howe, Panama’s Irving Saladino regained the lead with the final jump of the competition.
・Ecuador’s Jefferson Perez won his third world 20km race walk title.
・USA’s Jeremy Wariner ran 43.45 – a time that places him fourth on the world all-time list – to win his second consecutive world 400m title.
・Racing from lane nine, China’s Liu Xiang won the 110m hurdles title.

・At the peak of her powers, Allyson Felix retained her world 200m title with one of the biggest winning margins ever at the World Championships. She added further golds in the 4x100m and 4x400m, the latter with a storming 48.01 split.
・Just nine months after giving birth, Australia’s Jana Pittman-Rawlinson won her second world 400m hurdles title.

・Usain Bolt followed up on his 2008 Olympic breakthrough by winning triple gold in Berlin, setting world records at 100m, 200m and 4x100m.
・Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele completed the 5000m and 10,000m distance double, setting a championship record in the latter.

・In a high jump final that captivated the entire stadium, Blanka Vlasic retained her world title in a thrilling duel with home crowd favourite Ariane Friedrich.
・In her final championships appearance, 37-year-old Steffi Nerius of Germany won the javelin on home soil.

・Presented to Usain Bolt (Men's 100m & 200m)

・In a close hammer contest, Japan’s Koji Murofushi won gold by just six centimetres.
・USA’s Dwight Phillips – fittingly given bib number ‘1111’ – won his fourth world long jump title.

・Throwing a championship record and lifetime best of 21.24m, New Zealand’s Valerie Adams won her third of four world shot put titles.
・In a week when many athletes succumbed to the ‘cover curse’, after being featured on the cover of daily programmes, Sally Pearson bucked the trend by blazing to glory in the 100m hurdles in a championship record time.

・Presented to Nesta Carter/Michael Frater/Yohan Blake/Usain Bolt (Men's 4×100m Relay)

・Germany’s Robert Harting won his third world discus title.
・One year after taking two gold medals at the Olympics, Britain’s Mo Farah won his first World Championships distance double.

・Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won triple gold, winning the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m.
・After six major championships silvers, Germany’s Christina Obergfoll won javelin gold at last.

・USA’s Christian Taylor produced the second-best leap in history, 18.21m, to win the triple jump.
・Ezekiel Kemboi won his fourth world steeplechase title, leading a Kenyan 1-2-3-4 in the process.
・Ashton Eaton broke his own world decathlon record with 9045. Within his series, he broke the world decathlon best for 400m with 45.00.

・Pushed all the way by Elaine Thompson, Dafne Schippers won the 200m in a championship and European record of 21.63.
・Winning her third of four world hammer titles, Anita Wlodarczyk produced a championship record of 80.85m – the first ever 80-metre throw in a global championships.

・Presented to Ashton Eaton (Men's Decathlon)

・Trinidad & Tobago – a population of 1.5million – defeated pre-race favourites USA to win the 4x400m.

・Ten years after her first global gold, Czechia’s Barbora Spotakova won her third world javelin title at the age of 36.
・US long jumper Brittney Reese won the long jump by just two centimetres, earning her fourth world title and her eighth global gold medal.

・In an extremely high-quality and close shot put contest, Tom Walsh took an early lead with a championship record of 22.90m, one of the best marks in history. That stood as the best mark of the final until Joe Kovacs went out to 22.91m in the final round. Ryan Crouser then responded with 22.90m to miss out on gold by one centimetre but take silver on countback.
・Returning from injury, Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto won the steeplechase by just 0.01.
・Competing on home soil, Mutaz Barshim returned from injury to win the high jump, much to the delight of the crowd.

・Dutch distance runner Sifan Hassan pulled off a unique double, winning the 1500m and 10,000m.
・In a close duel with US compatriot Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad won the 400m hurdles in a world record of 52.16.

・Presented to Courtney Okolo/Allyson Felix/Michael Cherry/Wilbert London (4x400m Mixed Relay)