Women's Marathon: Ethiopian Mare Dibaba won the women's marathon at the World Championships by one second from Kenya's Helah Kiprop after a thrilling finish in Beijing.
The 25-year-old outsprinted her rival, 30, on the home straight to win in two hours, 27 minutes and 35 seconds and give Ethiopia their second gold.
Bronze went to Bahrain's Kenya-born Eunice Kirwa, 31.
"When we came into the stadium, I just tried my best. I took off and I won the marathon," said Dibaba.
"Since I arrived in Beijing the weather was very hot and I was scared about that for the marathon. But this morning the weather changed. It is very similar to our country and easy for us to run our own race.
"From now on I will concentrate on the Rio Olympics in my training."
Kenya's Edna Kiplagat, who won the last two World Championships marathons, came fifth, having dropped off the leading group about 2,000 metres from the finish.
men's high jump final
Drouin wins high jump gold
The bar has been lowered to 2.34m in the high jump jump-off and Canada's Derek Drouin is the only man to clear the height, and he did so comfortably.
The 2013 world champion Bohdan Bondarenko and China's Zhang Guowei will share silver.
women's javelin final
Javelin gold for Germany's Molitor 67.69m
women's 5,000m final
Almaz Ayana's winning time was 14:26.83 - a championship record which breaks Tirunesh Dibaba's previous championship best. It's not been a great 15 minutes for the Dibaba family.
men's 1500m final
Kiprop defends 1500m title
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. With 1200m the finalists step ion the accelerator... the Kenyantrio are behind coming into the final bend - but Asbel Kiprop extends his stride down the home straight, pushing compatriot Elijah Motonei Manangoi into second in an excitingly close finish.
women's 4x400m relay
Jamaica win 4x400m relay gold, Britain bronze
men's 4x400m relay
USA win 4x400m gold, Britain take bronze
Oh my word! Jamaica's Javon Francis presses some sort of booster button with 250m remaining, overtaking LaShawn Merrit to take the lead with the speed of a 200m runner... Astonishing. Foolish? Yep. By the time it comes to the final 10m the Jamaican runs out of steam, which allows Martyn Rooney to pip him to win bronze for Britain.
LaShawn Merritt guides America to gold in 2:57.82, while Trinidad and Tobago claim silver in a national record 2:58.20.
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