2017 IAAF World ChampionshipsAug 5, 2017 by Gordon Mack
LIVE UPDATES: 2017 IAAF World Championships Day 2
LIVE UPDATES: 2017 IAAF World Championships Day 2
Live updates from Day 2 of the 2017 IAAF World Championships.
We're here on day 2 of the IAAF World Championships, bringing you LIVE updates from the men's 100m semis, the women's 1500m semis, the heptathlon women's 200m, and the men's 100m final. Refresh the page below for the play-by-play!
Men's 100m Semifinal 1
Simbine and Gatlin highlight this heat, where only the top two will auto-qualify for the final, with just two total time qualifiers.
Gatlin gets booed by the crowd again at the start, but that doesn't stop him from nabbing the last auto-Q, behind Simbine. Meite will have to see if he gets a time qualifier in 10.17.
Men's 100m Semifinal 2
Yohan Blake gets the roars in this semi, though he didn't look great in the heats. Bingtian Su will also be hoping to make the final and Belcher may be one of those guys hoping for a time qualifier.
Blake wins it, looking a little better than yesterday. A big suprise with British hometown fave Reece Prescod making the final in 2nd, pushing Bingtian Su into hoping for a time qualifier. American Chris Belcher is out.
It's the big man, Usain Bolt! And he'll face NCAA champ Christian Coleman for the first time. Bolt has been undefeated in prelims (and finals) since June 2013. Can he keep that up today? With Ujah and Vicaut in this heat too, there's got to be some disappointment one way or another.
BOLT LOSES! Yes, it's a semi. But that's his first loss in any individual event since 2013! It looks like he takes second to Coleman. He had his typical bad start and caught up, but it just wasn't enough to overtake Coleman who already had a few steps on the field. This final will be very interesting...
These women will be looking for a top-five spot to auto-Q (there are two time-qualifiers), and it'll be a tough ask with Semenya, Dibaba, Kipyegon, Muir, and Kate Grace all fit and fighting for it.
Tsegay falls early and is jogging it in. At the bell lap, Kate Grace is falling off the pack and it looks like she's gone. Kipyegon wins it and Dibaba falls off the back in the last 100m for 6th! She'll have to pray that the next heat allows her to time-Q.
Chebet, Hassan, Klosterhalfen, and Americans Jenny Simpson and Sara Vaughn headline this last semi. Current time qualifiers are 4:05.33 and 4:05.75 -- the sixth and seventh place finishers will have to beat those to guarantee them spots in the final.
Weightman leads through 400m in 67, and Konstanze Klosterhalven makes a big push through 800m! She has almost 25m on the field at the bell.
Simpson and the field reels her in at the end -- Klosterhalfen, Winny Chebet, and Sara Vaughn all won't make the final.
This is it! It's Almaz Ayana's first race since September 2016. She's the world record holder in this event, and probably the sport's most mysterious figure at this moment. What can she do in this 10K final? And will her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba have anything to say about it?
The field is out clean and very slow as Rocha of Portugal takes the early lead -- through 400m in 81 seconds! 2:48 through 800m as Eshete of Bahrain leads the slow pace -- 3:30 through 1K -- as all the medal favorites are still content to sit in the middle of the huge pack.
The field has still done nothing to speed things up, splitting 5:29 through 1600m. This could play out like the 2015 WC 5K, where the pace was very slow early on but Ayana busted out an 8:19 last 3K. Sitora Khamidova of Uzbekistan leads now and people are just starting to stretch out their legs, but don't expect this pace to pick up any time soon. 6:48 through 2K with Ayana sitting in 2nd.
9:59 through 3K, 10:37 3200m as the entire field is still bunched up and in it. Dibaba inches up to 3rd behind Ayana, both prepared to strike when someone makes a move.
Ayana finally takes the lead, with Yasemin Can of Turkey trailing. We might finally start to see some speed here as she splits 4K in 13:02.
Ayana and Can are gapping the field, this could be the move. Already they've got ten meters on Agnes Tirop leading the chase pack of Kenyans -- No Americans in sight in the lead or chase packs.
That was a 67 second lap that Ayana just split along with Can of Turkey, but now even Can is struggling to keep up with this pace. Ayana is crushing it, splitting 15:17 through 4800m and already putting close to 50 meters on Can and the rest of the field.
15:51 through 5K, but expect that second 5K split to be much faster as Ayana is showing no signs of slowing down and only adding to her gap with every step. Can still has 2nd as the chase pack has caught up to her now, Nawowuna 3rd.
Ayana is keeping up the 67-68 second circuits. 18:42 through 6K. Should we just hand her the gold medal in the 10K now? Might as well give her the 5K while we're at it...
19:52 through 6400m and it seems like Ayana has this race already wrapped up barring something extraordinary. More interesting is the race for silver, with a pack of all the Kenyans plus Can and Dibaba tight in the chase pack.
21:35 through 7K, Ayana has been slowing down a little to 69-second laps (from 67s and 68s) but not nearly enough to allow a catchup from the chase pack, which seems to be fighting for silver now.
The chase pack is down to just four, but ahead Ayana just split 24:30 through 8K, a tremendous speedup from the previous pace. 25:40 with 1600m to go.
Ayana is lapping people left and right -- not just the stragglers, she's already lapping some very decent runners, slowing down a little to a 71 pace but again still miles ahead of the field.
It's a 27:26 through 9K for Ayana. Tirop, Nawowuna, and Dibaba look like your other medalists, but there are only two medals left to give among the three of them. 29:10 with a lap to go!
Ayana just lapped the entire US team en route to her 30:16 finish. Wow! That was a 14:25 last 5K, 4:37 last mile. Tirunesh Dibaba looks strong coming in for silver, Kenya's Agnes Tirop puts up a fight but she'll hold on for bronze. Infeld gets top American honors in 6th.
Heptathlon Women's 200m Heats
There are four heats of 200s here, and American hope Sharon Day-Monroe headlines the first heat. Day-Monroe takes the W in H1 with 24.97, scoring 890 points.
Katerina Cachova wins heat 2 in 24.56 (928 points), with Thiam of Belguim a hundredth of a second behind in 2nd (927 points).
Odile Ahouanwanou of Benin surprises with a PB to take heat 3 in 24.09, taking 972 points.
Two Americans, Kendell Williams and Erica Bougard, headline the final heat, along with British hometown fave Katerina Johnson-Thompson who gets roars from the huge crowd.
Johnson-Thompson wins in 22.86! That's the fastest time of the day by a good bit, scoring her 1093 solid points to the delight of the stadium.
This is it. The last race of the day, and the most anticipated one of the champs. Usain Bolt will soon up in the blocks for the last time in his life. His four year win streak was already broken in the semis to Christian Coleman, but if he wins here that will put all worries to rest and he'll step down as a champion. But will it happen?
It's time! The crowd is getting fired up, and it looks like a heavy Jamaican crowd, perfect for Bolt. Alright the field is out on the track doing some strides and setting their blocks. Bolt complained about the blocks after the first round, and it looks like he is thoroughly checking these ones out before he begins.
INTROS!!!!! Oh man, the FloTrack team is getting really nervous over here.
OH MY GOSH JUSTIN GATLIN WINS THE 100m TITLE, CHRISTIAN COLEMAN GETS SILVER, AND BOLT FINISHES THIRD!!!! WOW 9.92 for Gatlin, who had an incredible close. Coleman finished in 9.94, and Bolt barely misses him in 9.95! WHAT A CRAZY RACE!
According to the IAAF, at 35, Gatlin is the oldest winner of the men's 100m title at the World Championships. The performance took place 12 years after he won his first world championship title in Helsinki.
Bolt's third-place finish is his first non-gold medal since 2007 when he earned silver in the 200m and 4x100m relay. In total, Bolt has earned eight Olympic gold medals and 11 world championship titles. This race marked his final individual championship of his career. He still has the 4x100m relay coming up at the end of next week. Even after beating him, Gatlin had to respect the storied career of his longtime rival.
Coleman earned silver in his first global championship competing as an individual. The 21-year-old just highlighted a breakthrough year which already included four NCAA championships for Tennessee and a collegiate record in the 100m. His 9.82 100m performance at NCAAs made him the fourth fastest American in the history of the event. He can now call himself a world silver medalist and one of the few competitors to have beaten Bolt. He also made history by going 1-2 with Gatlin.
Men's 100m Semifinal 1
Simbine and Gatlin highlight this heat, where only the top two will auto-qualify for the final, with just two total time qualifiers.
Gatlin gets booed by the crowd again at the start, but that doesn't stop him from nabbing the last auto-Q, behind Simbine. Meite will have to see if he gets a time qualifier in 10.17.
Men's 100m Semifinal 2
Yohan Blake gets the roars in this semi, though he didn't look great in the heats. Bingtian Su will also be hoping to make the final and Belcher may be one of those guys hoping for a time qualifier.
Blake wins it, looking a little better than yesterday. A big suprise with British hometown fave Reece Prescod making the final in 2nd, pushing Bingtian Su into hoping for a time qualifier. American Chris Belcher is out.
Men's 100m Semifinal 3
It's the big man, Usain Bolt! And he'll face NCAA champ Christian Coleman for the first time. Bolt has been undefeated in prelims (and finals) since June 2013. Can he keep that up today? With Ujah and Vicaut in this heat too, there's got to be some disappointment one way or another.
BOLT LOSES! Yes, it's a semi. But that's his first loss in any individual event since 2013! It looks like he takes second to Coleman. He had his typical bad start and caught up, but it just wasn't enough to overtake Coleman who already had a few steps on the field. This final will be very interesting...
Bolt's 45 race win streak broken! #London2017 pic.twitter.com/ZHtfI8s9b0
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) August 5, 2017
Women's 1500m Semifinal 1
These women will be looking for a top-five spot to auto-Q (there are two time-qualifiers), and it'll be a tough ask with Semenya, Dibaba, Kipyegon, Muir, and Kate Grace all fit and fighting for it.
Tsegay falls early and is jogging it in. At the bell lap, Kate Grace is falling off the pack and it looks like she's gone. Kipyegon wins it and Dibaba falls off the back in the last 100m for 6th! She'll have to pray that the next heat allows her to time-Q.
Women's 1500m Semifinal 2
Chebet, Hassan, Klosterhalfen, and Americans Jenny Simpson and Sara Vaughn headline this last semi. Current time qualifiers are 4:05.33 and 4:05.75 -- the sixth and seventh place finishers will have to beat those to guarantee them spots in the final.
Weightman leads through 400m in 67, and Konstanze Klosterhalven makes a big push through 800m! She has almost 25m on the field at the bell.
Simpson and the field reels her in at the end -- Klosterhalfen, Winny Chebet, and Sara Vaughn all won't make the final.
Women's 10,000m Final
This is it! It's Almaz Ayana's first race since September 2016. She's the world record holder in this event, and probably the sport's most mysterious figure at this moment. What can she do in this 10K final? And will her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba have anything to say about it?
The field is out clean and very slow as Rocha of Portugal takes the early lead -- through 400m in 81 seconds! 2:48 through 800m as Eshete of Bahrain leads the slow pace -- 3:30 through 1K -- as all the medal favorites are still content to sit in the middle of the huge pack.
The field has still done nothing to speed things up, splitting 5:29 through 1600m. This could play out like the 2015 WC 5K, where the pace was very slow early on but Ayana busted out an 8:19 last 3K. Sitora Khamidova of Uzbekistan leads now and people are just starting to stretch out their legs, but don't expect this pace to pick up any time soon. 6:48 through 2K with Ayana sitting in 2nd.
9:59 through 3K, 10:37 3200m as the entire field is still bunched up and in it. Dibaba inches up to 3rd behind Ayana, both prepared to strike when someone makes a move.
Ayana finally takes the lead, with Yasemin Can of Turkey trailing. We might finally start to see some speed here as she splits 4K in 13:02.
Ayana and Can are gapping the field, this could be the move. Already they've got ten meters on Agnes Tirop leading the chase pack of Kenyans -- No Americans in sight in the lead or chase packs.
That was a 67 second lap that Ayana just split along with Can of Turkey, but now even Can is struggling to keep up with this pace. Ayana is crushing it, splitting 15:17 through 4800m and already putting close to 50 meters on Can and the rest of the field.
15:51 through 5K, but expect that second 5K split to be much faster as Ayana is showing no signs of slowing down and only adding to her gap with every step. Can still has 2nd as the chase pack has caught up to her now, Nawowuna 3rd.
Ayana is keeping up the 67-68 second circuits. 18:42 through 6K. Should we just hand her the gold medal in the 10K now? Might as well give her the 5K while we're at it...
19:52 through 6400m and it seems like Ayana has this race already wrapped up barring something extraordinary. More interesting is the race for silver, with a pack of all the Kenyans plus Can and Dibaba tight in the chase pack.
21:35 through 7K, Ayana has been slowing down a little to 69-second laps (from 67s and 68s) but not nearly enough to allow a catchup from the chase pack, which seems to be fighting for silver now.
The chase pack is down to just four, but ahead Ayana just split 24:30 through 8K, a tremendous speedup from the previous pace. 25:40 with 1600m to go.
Ayana is lapping people left and right -- not just the stragglers, she's already lapping some very decent runners, slowing down a little to a 71 pace but again still miles ahead of the field.
It's a 27:26 through 9K for Ayana. Tirop, Nawowuna, and Dibaba look like your other medalists, but there are only two medals left to give among the three of them. 29:10 with a lap to go!
Ayana just lapped the entire US team en route to her 30:16 finish. Wow! That was a 14:25 last 5K, 4:37 last mile. Tirunesh Dibaba looks strong coming in for silver, Kenya's Agnes Tirop puts up a fight but she'll hold on for bronze. Infeld gets top American honors in 6th.
Heptathlon Women's 200m Heats
There are four heats of 200s here, and American hope Sharon Day-Monroe headlines the first heat. Day-Monroe takes the W in H1 with 24.97, scoring 890 points.
Katerina Cachova wins heat 2 in 24.56 (928 points), with Thiam of Belguim a hundredth of a second behind in 2nd (927 points).
Odile Ahouanwanou of Benin surprises with a PB to take heat 3 in 24.09, taking 972 points.
Two Americans, Kendell Williams and Erica Bougard, headline the final heat, along with British hometown fave Katerina Johnson-Thompson who gets roars from the huge crowd.
Johnson-Thompson wins in 22.86! That's the fastest time of the day by a good bit, scoring her 1093 solid points to the delight of the stadium.
Men's 100m Final
This is it. The last race of the day, and the most anticipated one of the champs. Usain Bolt will soon up in the blocks for the last time in his life. His four year win streak was already broken in the semis to Christian Coleman, but if he wins here that will put all worries to rest and he'll step down as a champion. But will it happen?
It's time! The crowd is getting fired up, and it looks like a heavy Jamaican crowd, perfect for Bolt. Alright the field is out on the track doing some strides and setting their blocks. Bolt complained about the blocks after the first round, and it looks like he is thoroughly checking these ones out before he begins.
INTROS!!!!! Oh man, the FloTrack team is getting really nervous over here.
OH MY GOSH JUSTIN GATLIN WINS THE 100m TITLE, CHRISTIAN COLEMAN GETS SILVER, AND BOLT FINISHES THIRD!!!! WOW 9.92 for Gatlin, who had an incredible close. Coleman finished in 9.94, and Bolt barely misses him in 9.95! WHAT A CRAZY RACE!
According to the IAAF, at 35, Gatlin is the oldest winner of the men's 100m title at the World Championships. The performance took place 12 years after he won his first world championship title in Helsinki.
Bolt's third-place finish is his first non-gold medal since 2007 when he earned silver in the 200m and 4x100m relay. In total, Bolt has earned eight Olympic gold medals and 11 world championship titles. This race marked his final individual championship of his career. He still has the 4x100m relay coming up at the end of next week. Even after beating him, Gatlin had to respect the storied career of his longtime rival.
Photo of the night... Justin Gatlin & Usain Bolt #IAAFWorldChampionships pic.twitter.com/8hVgiNrENB
— George Orfanakis (@G_Orfan) August 5, 2017
Coleman earned silver in his first global championship competing as an individual. The 21-year-old just highlighted a breakthrough year which already included four NCAA championships for Tennessee and a collegiate record in the 100m. His 9.82 100m performance at NCAAs made him the fourth fastest American in the history of the event. He can now call himself a world silver medalist and one of the few competitors to have beaten Bolt. He also made history by going 1-2 with Gatlin.
Last time USA went 1-2 in a championship 100m was at the worlds in 2001:
— Tim Layden (@SITimLayden) August 5, 2017
1) Maurice Greene
2) Tim Montgomery (oops)
2) Bernard Williams
