Track and Field

Kirani James of Grenada (R) lunges at the finish line ahead of LaShawn Merritt of the U.S. to win the men’s 400 metres final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu yesterday. James chased down defending champion Merritt on the home straight to win 400 metres gold and Grenada’s first medal at the world championships  yesterday. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Kirani James of Grenada (R) lunges at the finish line ahead of LaShawn Merritt of the U.S. to win the men’s 400 metres final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu yesterday. James chased down defending champion Merritt on the home straight to win 400 metres gold and Grenada’s first medal at the world championships yesterday. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Teenager James wins thrilling gold for Grenada

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Teenager Kirani James  exploded on to the world stage with a thrilling victory in the  400 metres final to give the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada  its first world championships medal yesterday.

David Rudisha
David Rudisha

Dominant Rudisha wins 800 metres gold

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – World record holder  David Rudisha won gold in the men’s 800 metres at the world  championships yesterday with a dominant display of front  running.

USA QUEEN! Carmelita Jeter wins the 100m yesterday beating Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell Brown and Trinidad’s Kelly Ann Baptiste into second and third respectively. (Photos IAAF website)
USA QUEEN! Carmelita Jeter wins the 100m yesterday beating Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell Brown and Trinidad’s Kelly Ann Baptiste into second and third respectively. (Photos IAAF website)

Daegu drama!

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Cuban hurdler Dayron  Robles was stripped of gold and glory at the world athletics  championships yesterday in a twist every bit as dramatic as  Usain Bolt’s disqualification from the blue riband 100 metres  sprint the night before.

Yelena Isinbayeva

Top names flirt with curse of the cover

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Pole vault queen  Yelena Isinbayeva and 800m world record holder David Rudisha  take centre stage at the world athletics championships today — and both could be forgiven for hoping they do not  appear on the cover of the official programme for the Daegu  event.

Kenyan athletes celebrate sweeping the first four positions in the women’s 10,000 metres which was won by Vivian Cheruiyot. (IAAF website)

Kenyan policewoman survives fall to win first gold

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt brought  world-class pizzazz to the athletics world championships yesterday where one Olympic champion ducked out without  completing even a single pole vault and another was in tears  after false starting in her 400 metres heat.

Usain Bolt

Bolt confident for world 100 metres

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, the  world’s fastest man, predicted yesterday he would retain his  world 100 metres title in Daegu, South Korea, easily this month  provided he gets a decent start.

Injured Vlasic will defend world high jump title

SPLIT, Croatia, (Reuters) – World high jump champion  Blanka Vlasic will defend her title despite a hamstring injury  which nearly forced her to pull out of the upcoming world  championships in the South Korean city of Daegu, she said yesterday.

Usain Bolt

Bolt leads star-studded line up to Daegu

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – World sprint champion Usain Bolt leads an array of stars in a Jamaica 50-member contingent named Monday for the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea starting month end.

Kenenisa Bekele

Bekele to defend world title despite year out

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Ethiopian  Olympic and world champion Kenenisa Bekele will defend his  10,000 metres world title later this month despite not having  raced since early 2010, his manager said yesterday.

 Winston George in mid stride on his way to his 400m victory yesterday.

HQ run out champs

Headquarters yesterday ran out champions at the 57th edition of the Guyana Police Force Inter Unit Championships at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Rolyce Boston (right) in receipt of his bronze medal on the podium last Saturday.

Boston bags bronze

Guyana’s Rolyce Boston jumped his way to a bronze medal last Friday evening at the Junior Pan American Championships in Miami, Florida.

Lionel D’andrade

Alika Morgan wins 5K race in T/dad

Distance queen, Alika Morgan comfortably won the first of three marathon events when she defeated all and sundry in the Westshore sponsored 5K event last Saturday in Trinidad.

Stephan James places 6th in Pan Am 400m finals

National 400 metres junior champion Stephan James placed sixth in the 400-metre final at the ongoing Pan American Junior Championships yesterday in Miami, Florida while Iana Amsterdam failed to show up to participate in her events.

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