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<\/a>to retake the lead and threaten the WR with the #2 throw of all time! Both women were well off their marks in the final round and the Russian had gold in perhaps the greatest javelin competition of all time. <\/p>\n71.99m \u2013 Maria Abakumova (RUS) <\/p>\n
71.58m \u2013 Baroboa Spotakova (CZE) <\/p>\n
68.38m \u2013 Sunette Viljoen (RSA) <\/p>\n
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The men\u2019s shot put proved to be just as exciting, but not with the expected players. Reese Hoffa (USA) lead the 1st<\/sup> round with 20.90m\/68\u2019 7\u201d. It was the last time during the competition that an American would lead as David Storl (GER) hit a huge 21.60M\/70\u2019 10.5\u201d in round two to take over the lead. In the 3rd<\/sup> round defending champ Christian Cantwell (USA) finally hit a decent throw with a 21.36m\/70\u2019 1\u201d to move into medal contention but had to watch as Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR) hit 21.40m\/70\u2019 2\u201d to move into 2nd<\/sup> place followed by Canada\u2019s Dylan Armstrong\u2019s 21.64m\/71\u2019 0\u201d that moved him into the gold medal position, pushing everyone down a spot. In the final round, however, Storl blasted a PR 21.78m\/71\u2019 5.5\u201d to retake the lead and win his first gold medal and end a very exciting competition. 21.78m \u2013 David Storl (GER) <\/p>\n 21.64m \u2013 Dylan Armstrong (CAN) <\/p>\n 21.40m \u2013 Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was no changing of the guard in the men\u2019s long jump however, as defending champion Dwight Phillips (USA)repeated his 1st<\/sup> round heroics of the qualifying round to hit exactly 8.31m\/27\u2019 3.25\u201d to put pressure on the field. Ngoni Makusha (ZIM) took up the challenge with a leap of 8.29m\/27\u2019 2.5\u201d. But in round 2 Phillips spanned 8.45m\/27\u2019 8.75\u201d and early favorite Mitchell Watt hit 8.33m\/27\u2019 4\u201d and things were pretty well set as the rest of 8.45m \u2013 Dwight Phillips (USA) <\/p>\n 8.33m \u2013 Mitchell Watt (AUS) <\/p>\n 8.29m \u2013 Ngoni Makusha (ZIM) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n All of the action didn\u2019t take place in the field as there were some running events taking place. The most exciting being the women\u2019s 200 and men\u2019s 4×4. <\/p>\n They lined up in the 200 meters with Allyson Felix (USA), Carmelita Jeter (USA), Veronica Campbell Brown (JAM) and Shalonda Solomon (USA) in lanes 3 through 6. Jeter, the winner of the 100 looking for a possible double while Felix (runner up in the 400) and Campbell Brown (runner up in the 100) looking for gold in Daegu \u2013 a classic matchup. I said from day one that with this group of women the turn would be crucial \u2013 and it was. At the gun Jeter and Campbell Brown were blazing \u2013 Jeter moving away from Felix and Campbell Brown running past Solomon to her outside. Off the bend Campbell Brown was off to the races, but Jeter hit what seemed to be another gear to move to her shoulder with 50 meters to go, VCB was NOT going to be denied however, as she made a move that looked like something out of \u201cThe Fast and the Furious: as she found one more gear to burst away from Jeter to run through the line clear of the field to gold. Jeter appeared spent but held off the closing rush of Felix on the inside to nip her for the silver. It was a 22.22 \u2013 Veronica Campbell Brown (JAM) <\/p>\n 22.37 \u2013 Carmelita Jeter (USA) <\/p>\n 22.42 \u2013 Allyson Felix (USA) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The final event of the day showed why it should always be the final event of the meet, as the men\u2019s 4×4 relay turned out to be as exciting as always. From the gun South African moved out quickly and held the lead after the first leg with Belgium close and the U.S. and Jamaica in pursuit. As they headed down the backstretch Bershawn Jackson (USA) made a move but it was Jamaica\u2019s Jermaine Gonzalez who shifted gears 200 meters in and coming around the bend took control of the race giving Jamaica the lead over South Africa with the U.S. falling back to fourth position. It was then a game of catch up for Angelo Taylor who was able to move into third but was held off by Willem de Beer (RSA) and Ryker Hylton (JAM) as he handed the baton to LaShawn Merritt in the unusual position of being behind coming into the anchor. Leford Green (JAM) led the contingent of L.J. van Zyl (RSA) and Merritt through 230 meters when the other anchors began to make a move. Van Zyl went by Green coming off the bend as Taylor swung wide and took off after the South African \u2013 corralling him some 50 meters out as he ran to victory 2:59.31 \u2013 United States <\/p>\n 2:59.87 \u2013 South Africa <\/p>\n 3:00.10 \u2013 Jamaica <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tomorrow will be a day full of finals. The most anticipated being the men\u2019s 200 which is shaping up as a three man race between Usain Bolt (JAM), Walter Dix (USA) and Christophe Lemaitre (FRA). All three won today\u2019s semis, and are clearly the class of the field. As with the women\u2019s race the turn will be again be key, especially for Dix and Lemaitre if they hold out any hope of challenging Bolt for the gold. I know many are looking at Bolt, Dix for gold and silver, but Lemaitre seems to grow with every race and he will challenge. <\/p>\n The other key semis that were held today were in the women\u2019s 800 meters and I have to say after watching the ease with which Caster Semenya (RSA) ran 1:58.07 to win the final semi that perhaps a bit of sandbagging has been going on this summer. I had watched Semenya hanging in the back of races all summer only to ease up near the front by the finish. And I have to wonder if the goal has been not to appear superior \u2013 because that semi was just too easy. The rest of the field is going to have a hard time resting away that gold on Sunday. <\/p>\n Tomorrow will also feature the other 4×4 as the women will take to the track. With deep squads from the U.S., Russia, and Jamaica it too promises to be a real barn burner. And we get the women\u2019s short hurdle semifinals and final. Keep an eye on Sally Pearson (AUS) who came out with guns blazing in the opening round! Two more final filled days of action left. <\/p>\n Tomorrow\u2019s Finals:<\/strong> <\/p>\n There were a couple of great races on the track but the real action took place on the field today. In the women\u2019s javelin, Maria Abakumova (RUS) heaved a tremendous 71.25m\/233\u2019 9\u201d in the 2nd round to take a stranglehold on the competition. The mark took over the yearly lead, was a national record, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,106,12,23,172,174,22,33,74],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abakumova","tag-felix","tag-jeter","tag-phillips","tag-relays","tag-storl","tag-vcb","tag-watt","tag-world-championships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-9c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>With defending champion Cantwell just outside the medals in 4th<\/sup> and a slew of former champions unable to respond, this meet could represent a changing of the guard in this event as the sport\u2019s youth movement continues. <\/p>\n<\/a>the competition was filled with passes and scratches. I had given Phillips up for dead this season, but he proved to be a true champion as he showed up here ready to compete. Watt has been the man all season, and with his silver here proved to be a worthy competitor, but Phillips added yet another notch on his belt to go with titles in Berlin, Helsinki, Athens, and Paris and now moves into the conversation as one of the best all time in the event. <\/p>\n<\/a> great race, among three tremendous sprinters \u2013 Campbell Brown just clearly wanted this title today as she proved that she could win World gold just as she has Olympic gold. <\/p>\n<\/a> for the U.S, with van Zyl coming home silver. The time was an almost pedestrian (for world class racing) 2:59.31 possibly showing the effects of having this race too close to the 400 hurdles (as several of the competitors were 400 hurdlers). But the excitement that this race generates demonstrated for me just why it should retain its position as THE closing event of the meet, as it certainly closed out the day in fine fashion. <\/p>\n\n