WORLD ATHLETICS

World Athletics: day two round-up by BBC SPORTS NEWS.

Justin Gatlin beat Michael Frater into silverOlympic champion Justin Gatlin grabbed the world 100m title with a brilliant run of 9.88 seconds in Helsinki.
Gatlin had a poor start but came through at 60m to beat Michael Frater and reigning champion Kim Collins. Jamaica's Trecia Smith nailed a huge 15.11 metres to take a surprise gold in the women's triple jump. Carolina Kluft retained her world heptathlon title by a fraction after out-sprinting Eunice Barber on the home straight of the final 800m event.

DAY TWO DETAILS -

Men's 100m
Olympic champion Justin Gatlin powered to the world title with a brilliant run of 9.88 secs.
Gatlin was down after 20 metres but came through with a fantastic burst at 50m to take gold.
Jamaica's Michael Frater took silver from former champion Kim Collins, despite both clocking 10.05secs.
Gatlin said: "It feels great - adding another medal to my Olympic title. I had to make sure I got myself one. "When I felt I was in the lead, I didn't coast, but I knew I had enough to win it."
Collins, who struggled in the heats and semi-finals, said: "This is what the championships are about - coming in and performing when you have to. "I came in as a fastest loser - but once I'm in the finals, watch out for me!"
There was heartbreak for Jason Gardener, who missed out on a place in the final by just one one-hundredth of a second after finishing fifth in his heat. Gardener's time of 10.08 secs would have won him the first semi and was his fastest for five years.
Britain's Marlon Devonish went out after he could finish only sixth in the first semi in 10.24secs.
He said afterwards: "That was not good enough. "I was too tense - I was trying to hard. But I'm better than that - I haven't done myself justice."

Heptathlon
Reigning world and Olympic champion Carolina Kluft retained her title after sensationally out-kicking her arch-rival Eunice Barber in the final 50m of the last event, the 800m.
Barber needed to beat Kluft by a second and a half to take gold and led for 700m, but Kluft showed her pedigree to run a personal best just when she needed it.
Britain's Kelly Sotherton smashed her own personal 800m best but a terrible effort in the javelin cost her dear and she had to settle for fifth, 50 points off a medal. Sotherton said: "I haven't performed particularly well and know that, but you have to keep going right to the end." Ghana's Margaret Simpson took bronze after launching a massive 56.36m in the javelin to leap-frog Sotherton.
Kluft initially moved into gold medal position after producing a wonderful effort to edge overnight leader Barber in the long jump.
Barber, the reigning world long jump champion, could only produce a jump of 6.75m in reply to Kluft's first round leap of 6.87m.
Sotherton held on to her overnight position of third with an opening round jump of 6.41m, but failed to improve on that in her later attempts and at the end was left rueing her woeful javelin.

Women's 100m
Christine Arron of France again looked very impressive as she ran 11.03 seconds in winning her quarter-final.
Olympic champion Yuliya Nesterenko, who has been a shadow of her former self this season, went through in second a season's best of 11.17secs.
The 2001 world champion Zhanna Block qualified in third in a race packed with talent.
Chandra Sturrup, fastest woman in the world this year, ran 11.10secs as she won the third of the quarter-finals, with Jamaica's Veronica Campbell the winner of the first.
Britain's Emma Ania went out after coming home last in her quarter in a disappointing 11.57.

Women's 400m
World number one Sanya Richards eased to victory in her heat in a time of 51.00 secs.
Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu reached round two as she came home in second place behind DeeDee Trotter in her heat.
Lee McConnell and Donna Fraser joined her, both coming fourth in their respective heats.

Women's 20km walk
Olimpiada Ivanova wrapped herself in a Russian flag as she entered the stadium, having led from start to finish to take the 20km walk gold medal in a new world record time of one hour 25 minutes 41 seconds.
Ryta Turava of Belarus came home in second, with Susana Feitor of Portugal taking the bronze medal.

Men's 400m hurdles
USA's James Carter ran a beautifully-judged race to win the first semi in a rapid 47.78secs.
Reigning champion Felix Sanchez could finish only third in his semi-final, but qualified as a fastest loser.
Britain's Rhys Williams, in his first major championships, found the pace tough and finished sixth in the second semi. Williams said: "I'm very happy - I really went for it, but it was a tough heat. "I was lucky I could run my own race, but these guys were a different level."

Women's 800m
Cuba's Zulia Calatayud sprinted away from Russia's Svetlana Cherkasova in the second semi-final to claim her place in the final.
Reigning champion Maria Mutola only qualified as a fastest loser after coming third in the first semi behind Hazel Clark and Larisa Chzhao.
Britain's Susan Scott gave it her best shot but tired in the last 200m to finish eighth.

Women's triple jump
Jamaica's Trecia Smith leapt to gold with a superb 14.91m.
Anna Pyatykh was leading after two rounds with 14.75m, but Cuba's Yargelis Savigne jumped a personal best of 14.82m to take over in silver.
Sudan's Yamile Aldama was back in fourth.

Men's 3000m steeplechase
World champion Saif Saaeed Shaheen looked in imperious form as he won the first heat in 8 mins 11.79 secs from Kenyan rival Ezekiel Kemboi.
Paul Kipsiele Koech took the second heat, but Britain's Andrew Lemoncello did not go through after running well outside his personal best.

Men's discus
Virgilijus Alekna threw a championship record of 70.17m just when it was needed to snatch gold with the last throw of the competition.
Alekna led with a big effort of 68.10m in the early stages.
But Estonia's Gerd Kanter responded brilliantly with a fourth-round 68.57m to move into the gold medal position.

Women's discus
The Czech Republic's Vera Pospisilova-Cechlova led the qualifiers with a throw of 64.65m to ease into the final.
China's Aimin Song also looked good with 64.15, with Russia's Natalya Sadova coming through from pool B
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Women's pole vault
Britain's Janine Whitlock, back after serving a two-year drugs ban, went out of the Worlds after failing to clear the 4.45m needed to make it through qualifying.
Former Olympic champion Stacey Dragila, fighting to rediscover her old form, also failed to make the cut.
But red-hot favourite, world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, is safely into the final.
Whitlock said: "It was a tough competition and everyone was struggling with the conditions. "I am happy just to have got here. It has been tough this last couple of years, so it's good to be at a major championships."