After his facile pole vault qualification, Armand Duplantis spoke to the BBC, and he’s aiming high: “It’s not so fun, honestly, but it’s something you just got to get used to.It’s a waiting game.You have to just be patient, and you have to trust in yourself and be confident, you’re jumping.be ready to wait about an hour, hour and a half in between the jumps and whatnot.Yeah, really good, actually.

I felt really calm and just like, I didn’t really have to push it too hard.I was just like relaxing and it felt really nice, good.Yeah, like, where I wanted to be to try to give it a a really good go at a, you know, maybe something really hard, like a 6.30 for the final.”Ryan Crouser, shot put gold medallist, also spoke to the BBC: “Uh, since last September, uh I just had this ongoing elbow injury, and so really proud to just of the kind of way I endeavoured through this season and kept working when there was a lot.

So yeah, I’m just happy to be here, happy to compete.It wasn’t the competition I think that everyone thought it would be.But when you have qualifying in the morning, finals, same day, it’s always challenging, and it’s just a battle who can work with those conditions the best.So really proud at opening my season here, it’s a walk away with a gold.”The men’s pole vault finalists will be:1 Emmanouil Karalis GRE 5.

752 Sam Kendricks USA 5.753 Armand Duplantis SWE 5.754 Sondre Mogens Guttormsen NOR 5.755 Kurtis Marschall AUS 5.756 Bo Kanda Lita baehre GER 5.

757 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.758 Ersu Şaşma TUR 5.759 Ben Broeders BEL 5.7010 Hussain Asim Al hizam KSA 5.7011= Matěj Šcerba CZE 5.

5511 = Ernest John Obiena PHI 5.55The Dutch team are running well, but Team USA are blazing away.Toby Harries goes well for Team GB, before fading.Femke Bol is the last lap for the Dutch.Can she do it, in her usual style? Alexis Holmes is the leader for the USA on the last leg.

Can Bol do it? No, Holmes takes it, Bol’s run takes it for the Dutch ahead of the Belgians, Poland fourth.Nobody had an answer to the United States, with Britain in fifth.The biggest smiles? The Belgians.Here goes the mixed 4x400, with Team GB’s team of Lewis Davey, Emily Newnham, Tony Harries and Nicole Yeargin hoping to grab a medal.High drama in the field: Tommy Walsh launches a big one in the shot put, and goes into silver with 21.

94.Crouser clings on by 5cm.Fabbri follows up, and it is big, also 21.94 but he’s second on count-back.Here goes Crouser with his fifth attempt.

and it’s huge, beyond 22m.He knows it, too.That is massive.The final round: Uziel Munoz of Mexico celebrates a huge throw, and he’s thrown 21.97, which puts him in silver.

Walsh can’t respond with a big enough throw and will miss out on medals on count-back.Neither can Fabbri.Muniz takes silver.Crouser takes the gold with a mighty 22.34, to win his third world championship.

Chebet was just too good, and Battocletti ran a blinder in a truly elite final,Into the final lap,the bell sounds as runners are lapped,Tsegay goes, Chebet running well,We wait for the kick, and Chebet goes, with Battocletti giving vain chase, Tsegay coming in third.

The Olympic champion, the world record holder, wins it.Into the closing stages of the 10,000m, and it’s that same group of five, Battocletti among the African runners, with Tsegay starting the kick, and Battocletti staying with what is now a group of four.Taye has gone from the group.Into the fourth round of the shot put now, with Crouser, Fabbri and Walsh still in the podium positions.Ngetich and Chebet, the Kenyans, are pacing each other, with two Ethiopians in Gudaf Tsegay and Ejgayehu Taye in the group of five, with Battocletti biding her time.

The 10,000m has taken shape as they go past the 10-minute mark as Kenya’s pair of Agnes Jebet Ngetich and Beatrice Chebet set the pace.The European champion, Nadia Battocletti, is in fifth.sat off, watching and waiting.Can she find a finishing kick? There’s a 12-runner group taking control, and that group soon splits into six.Renaud Lavillenie, gold medallist at London 2012, has just cleared the 5.

75 height to make the pole vault final.Arnaud Duplantis has nailed every leap, with no fouls.Scott Lincoln spoke to the BBC ahead of the shot put final: “I’ll go all out in this final, what have I got to lose? This year in particular, I think the medal is anyone’s.There are definitely medals up for grabs, so why not me?”He’s in sixth place after three throws, with two of 21.00.

In gold, Ryan Crouser of the USA is leading on 21.99.Leandro Fabbri is second, on 21.83.Tommy Walsh of New Zealand is in third on 21.

58 but has just fouled.Here goes the women’s 10,000m, the first track final of the meet.Abdul Hakim Sani Brown goes in the last heat for Japan, with home fans biting their nails.He can only finish seventh, as Akani Simbine of South Africa, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu of Ghana and Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya go through.Romell Glave is through as a fastest loser.

That first heat was by far the quickest.Heat six and Zharnel Hughes goes for Team GB, where there’s a false start.And T’Mars McCallum, the American, just 21, is disqualified for being 0.01 ahead of the gun.Seems harsh…no, he’s been restored, clemency, and he thanks the heavens.

McCallum struggles in the race itself where Hughes takes second, behind Israel Okon of Nigeria, while Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs is third.McCallum looks to be hurt, and his time of 10.25 is too slow for the fastest losers.Glave is surely headed through.The shot put final is here.

Scott Lincoln is competing for Team GB.Heat five and Letsile Tebogo of Botswana jogs home in the style of Usain Bolt, to take the win in a slowish time.Andre de Grasse of Canada is in second, and Courtney Lindsey is third.The fourth heat of the men’s 100m is won by Kenneth Bednarek of the USA, with Jerome Blake in second, and Team GB’s Jeremiah Azu hanging on for third at 10.10.

His teammate, Glave, waits on 10.00, and is looking hood for the semis.Laura Muir spoke to the BBC after her exit from the 1500m: “I don’t know what happened and I think that’s the most upsetting thing.I feel like I’ve had a bit of a disrupted year but I was coming into form really well.I was excited with the shape that I was in so I was definitely aiming to make the final and be competitive in that final.

I’m not too sure what went wrong, to be honest, which is the most upsetting thing.“I did realise something wasn’t quite right with 500 metres to go, I tried to just put it to the back of my mind but it showed in that last 100 metres.”Here goes Noah Lyles, with Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake behind him, and the Bahamas’ Terence Jones in third.Again, the winning time is 9.95.

Lyles has quite the finishing kick,The second heat sees Kishane Thompson win with ease at 9,95, his best is 9,75 this year,Adjibi of Canada and Longa of Colombia is third.

That wasn’t as fast a heat, so good news for Romell Glave.Plenty of heats to come, though,Here we go, and it’s more worrying news for Team GB.Romell Glave, the first of three British runners taking part in the men’s 100 metre heat, will have to wait and see if he’s one of the three fastest non-automatic qualifiers.He ran 10.00 dead – a PB, so all not lost.

South Africa’s Gift Leotlela’s 9.87 was hugely impressive, followed by Kayinsola Ajayi of Nigeria, with a PB of 9.88.All PBs.This track is very quick