World Athletics Championships 2023 Day 8, HIGHLIGHTS: Noah Lyles becomes first man since Usain Bolt to complete sprint treble; India qualifies for men’s 4x400m relay final with Asian Record; Duplantis retains pole vault gold

10:30AM - Men’s Marathon

11:30PM - Women’s High Jump Final

11:45PM - Men’s Javelin Throw Final

11:50PM - Men’s 5000m Final

12:15AM - Women’s 800m Final

12:35AM - Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final

1:07AM - Men’s 4x400m Relay Final

1:20AM - Women’s 4x400m Relay Final

Well, what an end to the penultimate day of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023.

Here are you gold medallists from day eight

Women’s Marathon - Amane Beriso Shankule (Ethiopia)

Men’s Pole Vault - Armand Duplantis (Sweden)

Men’s 800m - Marco Arop (Canada)

Women’s 5000m - Faith Kipyegon (Kenya)

Decathlon - Pierce LePage (Canada)

Men’s 4x100m relay - USA

Women’s 4x100m relay - USA

It could never become a close competition as going into the anchor leg, Sha’Carri Richardson, the 100m champion, had a significant advantage over Shericka Jackson, 200m champion. USA wins the titles in both 4x100m relays! Brilliant stuff from the Americans.

Top three:

USA - 41.03s - Gold

Jamaica - 41.21s - Silver

Great Britain - 41.97s - Bronze

It is expected to be a battle between Jamaica and USA for the gold medal.

USA was brilliant from start to finish and when it came to Lyles in the anchor leg, he delivered with absolute authority. USA regains the title and Lyles becomes the first man since Usain Bolt (2015) to complete the treble of 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay gold.

Top three:

USA - 37.38s - Gold

Italy - 37.62s - Silver

Jamaica - 37.76s - Bronze

Lyles is looking to become the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to win gold medals in 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at the same world championships.

300m update - Warner is 10th and LePage is 11th.

Damian Warner is trying his best to stretch the gap between him and LePage, Victor following him. We are more than halfway through the race.

Into the final lap and Warner is giving it everything he has to fight Victor for the silver medal as LePage has sealed the gold.

Norway’s Sander Skotheim wins the race with Estonia’s Karel Tilga and Johannes Erm in second and third but that does not matter.

Damian Warner finishes seventh in 4:27.73s, Lindon Victor is 12th with 4:39.67s and LePage is 13th with 4:39.88s.

Final standings:

Pierce LePage (Canada) - 8909 points - Gold

Damian Warner (Canada) - 8804 points - Silver

Lindon Victor (Grenada) - 8756 points - Bronze

Karel Tilga (Estonia) - 8681 points

Leo Neugebauer (Germany) - 8645 points

Pierce LePage is the first-ever athlete from Canada to win the gold medal in decathlon at World Championships with the sixth-best performance of all time!

Third and final attempt at 6.23m for Duplantis. The crowd cheers him on and the Swede comes ever so close to clearing it!!!!

Nevertheless, it is a second straight gold medal at world championships for the man from Sweden.

Dongmo seemed to have gone past China’s Lijiao Gong with her final throw but a foul has been called. Will the Portuguese athlete challenge the decision?

Meanwhile, Gong throws 19.35m in her final attempt and as things stand, this will be her eighth straight medal at world championships.

Sarah Mitton with one final throw, attempting to go past Ealey, but it is a foul.

Chase Ealey remains the world champion in women’s shot put!

Top three:

Chase Ealey (USA) - 20.43m - Gold

Sarah Mitton (Canada) - 20.08m - Silver

Gong Lijiao (China) - 19.69m - Bronze

The Swede does much better than his previous attempt but still, the 6.23m mark proves to be a bit too much even for him.

Pierce LePage is comfortably in the gold medal position with 8228 points followed by Lindon Victor (8074 points) in second and Damian Warner (8044 points) in third. Germany’s Leo Neugebauer is fourth with 7989 points.

This lead should be good enough for LePage to become the first-ever Decathlon champion from Canada.

After five rounds, it is USA’s Ealey who extends her lead at the top with a superb throw of 20.43m. Mitton too crosses the 20m mark - it is 20.08m for her and she stays in the silver medal position. China’s Gong Lijiao is ahead of Dongmo for the bronze medal just on the basis of her second best throw being better than that of the Portuguese athlete after both are tied at 19.69m.

Mondo Duplantis, having already secured the gold, is now going for a new world record mark of 6.23m. The Swede does not come anywhere close to clearing it on his first attempt.

Going into the final lap, it is Kipyegon in front followed by Hassan and Chebet. We are in for a thrilling finish. Hassan looks to pass Kipyegon at the half way mark of the final lap but the Kenyan stays in front to take the gold medal and achieve the 1500m-5000m double, which no one has done before!!!!!

Hassan takes silver and Chebet wins bronze.

Top three:

Faith Kipyegon (Kenya) - 14:53.88s - Gold

Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) - 14:54.11s - Silver

Beatrice Chebet (Kenya) - 14:54.33s - Bronze

Mondo Duplantis is set to retain his world championship title as Obiena fails to clear 6.10m in his final attempt. The question now is whether Mondo will try to break his own world record of 6.22m.

Top three:

Armand Duplantis (Sweden) - 6.10m - Gold

Ernest John Obiena (Philippines) - 6.00m - Silver

Chris Nilsen (USA) - 5.95m - Bronze

Kurtis Marschall (Australia) - 5.95m - Bronze

At the 3000m mark, it is the Kenyan duo of Rengeruk and Chebet leading the pack with Tsegay in third and Kipyegon in fourth. Hassan is still outside the top 10.

With a little over a 1000m to go, Tsegay makes her move and takes the lead. Meanwhile, Hassan ups her pace and moves into the top 10.

Obiena does not clear 6.10m in his first try. The man from Philippines has one more attempt. On the other hand, Duplantis has cleared 6.10m too!!! The gold medal is surely his now!

Faith Kipyegon, the 1500m champion, decides enough is enough and ups the pace of a relatively slow race at the 1500m mark. Chebet, however, moves past her 500m later. In case you are wondering where Sifan Hassan is, the Dutchwoman is happily sitting at the back of the pack for the time being.

It comes down to Duplantis vs Obiena as Marschall, Nilsen and Collet fail to clear the 6m mark. Bar raised to 6:05m. Obiena does not manage to clear 6.05m in his first attempt. Meanwhile, Duplantis, reigning world champion, keeps his card clean as he does clear 6.05m at the first time of asking. Obiena decides to skip his two attempts at 6.05m and have a go directly at 6.10m.

All eyes on Faith Kipyegon, Sifan Hassan, Gudaf Tsegay, Ejgayehu Taye and Beatrice Chebet in this one.

After three rounds, it is USA’s Chase Ealey who leads with 20.35m followed by Canada’s Sarah Mitton (19.90m) and Portugal’s Auriol Dongmo (19.63m) in second and third.

Collet, Duplantis, Obiena, Nilsen and Marschall are the last five with the bar raised to 6.00m. Obiena and Marschall fail to clear it in their first attempt but nothing seems to be troubling the Swede at this point.

Duplantis clears 6.00m without much fuss in his very first attempt. Obiena joins him as he too clears the 6m mark on his second attempt!

Pattison decides to take the lead while Arop hangs at the back of the pack. Wanyonyi moves past Pattison just before the final lap begins. And now Arop makes his move! The Canadian comes from outside and storms past the rest of the field. This is a massive lead and no one comes close to challenging him in the end. Wanyonyi takes silves and Pattison wins bronze.

Final result -

Marco Arop (Canada) - 1:44.24s

Emmanuel Wanyonyi (Kenya) - 1:44.53s

Ben Pattison (Great Britain) - 1:44.83s

Adrian Ben (Spain) - 1:44.91s

Slimane Moula (Algeria) - 1:44.95s

Djamel Sedjati (Algeria) - 1:45.08s

Tshepiso Masalela (Botswana) - 1:45.57s

Bryce Hoppel (USA) - 1:46.02s

Start List

Pattison in Lane 2

Masalela in Lane 3

Hoppel in Lane 4

Wanyonyi in Lane 5

Moula in Lane 6

Arop in Lane 7

Sedjati in Lane 8

Ben in Lane 9

This could be a great battle.

Collet, Obiena and Nilsen clear 5.90m in their first attempts! Remember, Duplantis decided to pass this height.

Reigning world champion Chase Ealey takes the lead with a massive opening throw of 20.35m. That could be enough for a successful title defense for the American.

Huang, McWhorter, Yao, Stecchi and Broeders are out of the competition after failing to clear 5.85m. Nilsen clears it in his final attempt while Obiena does it in his second. After two failed attempts, Lisek decides to skip his third one at 5.85m and while directly have a ‘do-or-die’ attempt at 5.90m which is the next height.

Duplantis has decided to skip 5.90m.

Great Britain & NI, USA and Belgium grab the three automatic qualification spots but the USA might be disqualified for the last changeover between Quanera Hayes and Alexis Holmes.

Top three:

Great Britain & NI - 3:23.33s

USA - 3:23.35s

Belgium - 3:23.63s

Poland and Italy are through as the non-automatic qualifiers.

USA indeed has been disqualified. Its spot goes to Ireland.

Duplantis clears 5.85m at the first time of asking. Marschall and Collet join him in doing so but the rest of the field will have to go again.

Jamaica and Canada comfortably clinch the top two spots. However, it is a tight finish between Poland’s Kaczmarek and Netherlands’ Femke Bol for the third and final automatic berth for the final. Bol finishes in front.

Top three:

Jamaica - 3:22.74s

Canada - 3:23.29s

Netherlands - 3:23.75s

Poland and France, fourth and fifth, will have to wait for the second heat to see if they can grab the non-automatic spots for the final.

Sobera and Sasma are out of the competition after failing to clear 5.75m. The bar has now been raised to 5.85m.

USA - 2:58.47s

India - 2:59.05s

Great Britain - 2:59.42s

Botswana - 2:59.42s

Jamaica - 2:59.82s

France - 3:00.05s

Italy - 3:00.14s

Netherlands - 3:00.23s

Jamaica, France and Italy make it from the second heat. As fas as the non-automatic spots are concerned, those have been booked by Botswana (4th in first heat) and Netherlands (4th in second heat).

India was sixth after the first leg but it was Amoj’s scintillating run that moved it up to second. Ajmal and Rajesh Ramesh not only did well to hold that advantage but they ended up helping the team set up a new Asian record of 2:59.05s. In fact, for a few seconds, Rajesh actually led USA’s Justin Robinson in the anchor leg. Stunning effort from the Indians.

Top three automatic qualifiers from Heat 1

USA - 2:58.47s

India - 2:59.05s

Great Britain & NI - 2:59.42s

Botswana and Japan, who finished fourth and fifth, will have to wait and see if they can make it to the final as non-automatic qualifiers.

For India, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal and Rajesh Ramesh will take part.

The new height for the pole vaulters to clear is 5.75m. Duplantis has chosen to skip this round.

Huang and Marschall clear this one easily but many others fail to do so. Sobero, Yao, Obiena, Sasma, McWhorter, Stecchi will have to go again at 5.75m.

McWhorter, Marschall and Broeders join the rest of the field as they too clear 5.55m, albeit on their second attempts.

The competition begins with the bar set at the height of 5.55m. China’s Bokai Huang clears it in his first attempt. So does Robert Sobera of Poland. But Zach McWhorter does not. Everyone except McWhorter, Marschall and Broeders clear 5.55m in their first attempt. These three will have two more chances.

Start List

Bokai Huang (China)

Robert Sobera (Poland)

Zach McWhorter (USA)

Jie Yao (China)

Ernest John Obiena (Philippines)

Kurtis Marschall (Australia)

Ersu Sasma (Turkey)

Claudio Michel Stecchi (Italy)

Armand Duplantis (Sweden)

Christopher Nilsen (USA)

Piotr Lisek (Poland)

Ben Broeders (Belgium)

Thibaut Collet (France)

This edition of the World Athletics Championships has been one of the most exciting ones in recent times with people clinching gold medals with their last throws or jumps.

Can’t rule the possibility of the same happening during today’s men’s pole vault or women’s shot put final!

Amongst the nine entries, India’s personal best - 3:00.25s - is sixth best. Five teams - Botswana, Japan, Great Britain & NI, USA and Trininad and Tobago - have sub-3 minute PBs.

In terms of season’s best, however, India has the second best time.

Having clinched gold medals in 100m and 200m, Noah Lyles could become the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to achieve the rare treble if USA’s wins 4x100m relay tonight.

Amoj, Jacob, Muhammed Anas, Muhammed Ajmal, Rajesh Ramesh, Arul Rajalingam, Mijo Chacko Kurian will represent India in men’s 4x400m relay Heat 1 which also features USA, Japan, Great Britain and NI, Trinidad and Tobago, Botswana, Spain, Czech Republic and Hungary.

The Swede will be in action in the men’s pole vault final from 10:35PM IST.

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Eight athletes will battle it out in the women’s shot put final.

Qualification Marks:

Jessica Schilder - 19.64m

Maggie Ewen - 19.42m

Sarah Mitton - 19.37m

Danniel Thomas-Dodd - 19.36m

Auriol Dongmo - 19.59m

Yemisi Ogunleye - 19.44m (PB)

Chase Ealey - 19.27m

Gong Lijiao - 19.16m.

10:35PM - Men’s Javelin Throw (Decathlon Group A)

10:55PM - Men’s Pole Vault Final

11PM - Men’s 4x400m Relay Heats

11:25PM - Women’s 4x400m Relay Heats

11:40PM - Men’s Javelin Throw (Decathlon Group B)

11:45PM - Women’s Shot Put Final

12AM - Men’s 800m Final

12:20AM - Women’s 5000m Final

12:55AM - Men’s 1500m (Decathlon)

1:10AM - Men’s 4x100m Relay Final

1:23AM - Women’s 4x100m Relay Final

Check out the Day 7 highlights at the World Athletics Championship!

Jessica Schilder (NED) - 19.64m SB

Auriol Dongmo (POR) - 19.59

Yemisi Ogunleye (GER) - 19.44 PB

Maggie Ewen (USA) - 19.42

Sarah Mitton (CAN) - 19.37

Danniel Thomas-Dodd (JAM) - 19.36

Chase Ealey (USA) - 19.27

Lijao Gong (CHN) - 19.16

Sara Gambetta (GER) - 18.70

Jorinde Van Klinken (NED) - 18.66

Jiayuan Song (CHN) - 18.64

Maddison-Lee Wesche (NZL) - 18.59

Three athletes secure automatic qualification in the first attempt.

Jessica Schilder (NED, 19.64m SB), Maggie Ewen (USA, 19.42m) and Sarah Mitton (CAN, 19.37) have breached the qualification mark of 19.10m.

1. Damian Warner (CAN) - 13.67s

2. Pierce Lepage (CAN) - 13.77s PB

3. Kyle Garland (USA) - 13.93s

4. Ayden Owens-Delerme (PUR) - 14.04s

5. Harrison Williams (USA) - 14.33s

6. Sander Skotheim (NOR) - 14.96s

1. Jose Fernando Santana (BRA) - 13.94s PB

2. Daniel Golubovic (AUS) - 14.18s

3. Yuma Maruyama (JPN) - 14.18s SB

4. Manuel Eitel (GER) - 14.39s

5. Markus Rooth (DEN) - 14.47s

6. Leo Neugebauer (GER) - 14.75s

1 . Lindon Victor (GRN) - 14.47s

2. Janek Oiglane (EST) - 14.51s

3. Karel Tilga (EST) - 14.68s

4. Rik Taam (NED) - 14.80s

5. Johannes Erm (EST) - 14.90s

6. Marcus Nilsson (SWE) - 15.06s

The 110-m hurdles event will commence shortly with three heats splitting the participants.

1. Amane Beriso Shankule (Ethiopia) - 2:24:23 SB

2. Gotytom Gebreslase (Ethiopia) - 2:24:34 SB

3. Fatima Gardadi (Morocco) - 2:25:17

The World Athletics Championships 2023 is being live-streamed in India on Jio Cinema from August 19 to 27.

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MORNING SESSION

10:30AM - Women’s Marathon

1:35PM - Men’s 110m Hurdles (Decathlon)

1:55PM - Women’s Shot Put Qualification

2:30PM - Men’s Discus Throw (Decathlon Group A)

3:35PM - Men’s Discus Throw (Decathlon Group B)

4:30PM - Men’s Pole Vault (Decathlon Group A)

5:30PM - Men’s Pole Vault (Decathlon Group B)