Men’s 110m hurdles: In the fourth heat Spain’s Llopis dominated, winning comfortably.He will be joined in the next round by China’s Xu in second, and Prince of Jamaica in fourth.Tinch of the US, who holds this year’s world-leading time of 12.87sec, finished in third.Tinch seemed to be holding back as he easily cruised into the next round.

In the fifth heat, Holloway of the US – probably the most recognisable hurdler at this championships – shakes his head after finishing fourth.Jamaica’s Mason won the final heat with a season-best time of 13.17sec, which was the fastest qualifying time overall.Holloway says in his interview that he is not injured he just has to “figure some things out”.Men’s pole vault final: Duplantis and Kendricks clear 5.

85m with ease.Still a long way to go in this final.Men’s 110m hurdles: Bennett, the Jamaican champion and Olympic finalist, won the third heat but the Tokyo crowd are on their feet for Japan’s Nomoto, secured the final qualifying spot behind Kwaou-Mathey of France and Simonelli of Italy.Men’s 110m hurdles: Joseph of Switzerland, a European indoor champion, took first place in a tight second heat, finishing just two-thousandths of a second ahead of France’s Belocian and the US’s Tharp.Mendy of Senegal took the final automatic qualifying spot, while GB’s Ojora finished in eighth place.

Men’s pole vault final: Big jump from Qatar’s Heneida Abdesalam.The 20-year-old just cleared the national record of 5.75m in his second attempt.His brother Abderrahman Samba won his 400m hurdles heat earlier today.Men’s 110m hurdles: In the first heat Dylan Beard of the US took first with a time of 13.

28.China’s Chen in second and France’s Zhoya in third.Brazil have done well in hurdles today as Dos Santos secured the final automatic qualifying spot, despite losing momentum in the latter part of the race.Beard, while winning his heat, will need to improve his start, as his setup was noticeably late.His timing and rhythm over the hurdles were strong, but a faster start is crucial for him to shave off time in the semi-finals.

Men’s long jump: Lescay of Spain with a very impressive jump of 8,21m – his season’s best,He joins Greece’s Tentoglou who jumped 8,17m to qualify,Men’s pole vault final: Duplantis cleared his opening height of 5.

55m with ease, but has passed on the next height of 5,75m,His top competitors – Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis, the US’s Sam Kendricks, and Australia’s Kurtis Marschall – have all successfully made it over 5,75m,Men’s 400m hurdles: Warholm also confirms that he was just trying to get through the heat “as easily as possible”.

It certainly wasn’t like when he broke the world record in this stadium back in 2021 but he is clearly is saving his energy for the finals.Men’s 400m hurdles: Final heat sees Nathaniel from Nigeria take top spot.Alastair Chalmers gets into the top four which means he joins Donovan in the next round as the two racers from GB.Clarke from the previous heat gets through on qualifiers by the skin of his teeth.Men’s 400m hurdles: Olympic champion Benjamin finishes first in his heat.

Clarke from Jamaica was looking to finish in fourth, but Costa Rica’s Drummond snuck ahead of him.Clarke will now have to keep an eye on the next heat to see if he can qualify.GB’s Derbyshire struggled with a shake of a head at the end of the race, finishing in seventh.It is not my best.It is not the time to mess up.

I would be lying to say if I was happy with my performance.I didn’t think I would be in the sport 12 months ago so this will be a good platform.Men’s 400m hurdles: Warholm started strong but failed to hit his stride, finishing third.The commentators are theorising he was told to take it easy just get through due to the conditions.It was Brazil’s Lima who impressed to get top spot ahead of Qatar’s Abakar.

Turkey’s Akcam nabs the fourth spot with a season best.Men’s 400m hurdles: The second heat saw hurdles great and the 2022 champion Dos Santos come in second behind Qatar’s Bassem Hemeida.Dos Santos told BBC after that the track “felt amazing,” and that he is “here to fight for the gold”.The third heat is just about to start which contains one of the favourites for the title, Norway’s Karsten Warholm.Men’s pole vault final: Our first final of the day and it is a star-studded field, led by Armand ‘Mundo’ Duplantis.

The Swede is the current world record-holder at 6.29m and is a two-time Olympic (2020 and 2024) champion, a two-time world outdoor (2022 and 2023) champion and a three-time world indoor (2022, 2024 and 2025) champion.Let’s see what he can conjure up today.Men’s 400m hurdles: Tyri Donovan speaks after his second-place finish in the first heat.The GB support has been incredible.

I tried to be patient and I am glad I finished strong.To come out here and set a PB and get to the semi-finals is amazing.I put in the work though.If I get here anyone can get here.Men’s long jump: Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou comes into the qualifiers as the 2023 champion and the back-to-back Olympic champion.

The automatic qualifying mark is 8.15 or at least the best 12 qualify to the final.Men’s 400m hurdles: Qatar’s Samba is well in first but it is tight on the line for who is second … And it is who Donovan gets a PB in second with a time of a 48.26! The GB man lunges and stuck his right arm out in an effort to get over the line before he collapsed after the finish.Robinson from the US finishes in third with a time of 48.

27.Men’s 400m hurdles: First heat includes GB’s Donovan and home favourite Inoue – who gets the loudest cheers.Here we go …Men’s 400m hurdles: We are gearing up for our first event of the evening session.Five heats with nine athletes each.The first four of each heat will go to qualifiers and the four fastest times will qualify straight to the semi-finals.

The USA’s Rai Benjamin, who won gold in this event in Paris, is in the fourth heat.GB’s Alastair Chalmers, Seamus Derbyshire and Tyri Donovan are also taking part.Men’s 200m: Gout Gout is the name on everyone’s mind in Tokyo and the Australian said his legs are “ready to rumble” ahead of his debut at these championships on Wednesday.“[My legs will] be ready to go, like in F1 when the cars are warming up the tyres,” he said, making a swerving gesture with his hands.“They’ll be just … ready to rumble, that’s what they’d say.

”Read more below from Jack Snape on how nervous he feels and what his expectations are,Brit watch: Some unfortunate news from Toyko overnight as medal hopes Molly Caudery and Emile Cairess were forced out of their respective events,Caudery sustained an ankle injury in the warmup before pole vault qualifying, while Cairess – who finished fourth in the Paris Olympic marathon – battled through heat and humidity before bowing out in the 38th kilometre as a result of the muggy conditions,Last week, World Athletics announced that road event start times on the first three days of competition would be moved forward by half an hour, to 7,30am local time, as a response to concerns over athlete welfare after forecasts of high temperatures and humidity.

Cairess said: “I tried my best,I feel I just got too hot, simple as that really, conditions were so tough, it’s just really hot,When I stopped, I just took ages to just feel all right again,I’ve cooled down now, but it took a while,“I used all the stations to be diligent with the ice and the sponges and while it helped, it just still got too hot.

I felt pretty good the first 25km and then 30km I was still feeling good and then about 32km I just really suddenly didn’t feel very good any more.“I did a decent amount of prep for the conditions, as much as I could balancing it with training.I’ve not known conditions like it, but this is only my fourth marathon.Paris was a hot one but it was more warm and this was very, very humid.I did the best I could.

”The temperature was already 26C with 68% humidity at the marathon’s start, rising to 28C with 54% humidity by the time the event concluded at 10.04am.Caudery, the 2024 world indoor champion and ranked fourth heading to Japan, was seeking redemption after a disastrous Olympic debut in Paris, when she crashed out of the qualification session with a no mark.A British Athletics statement read: “Unfortunately, Molly Caudery has been forced to withdraw from pole vault qualifying following an ankle injury sustained in warm-up.”It will come as particularly devastating news for the 25-year-old, who vowed to learn from her Olympic mistakes.

In Paris, Caudery was the only entrant who elected to skip the 4.40 metres height attempt, electing to enter at 4.55.It was a decision that proved costly when she failed to clear the bar with her three tries, particularly after it turned out 4.40 was all it took for nine other women to advance.

She cleared 4.85 metres at the British championships last month.PA MediaMen’s marathon: As we await today’s action, let’s run through what took place in the morning session/overnight.Alphonce Felix Simbu snatched gold in the first photo-finish at a major championship marathon edging out Germany’s Amanal Petros in a dramatic race to the line to give Tanzania its maiden world title.The photo-finish showed the race was decided by three hundredths of a second as Simbu surged past the diving Petros at the line, closer than the 0.

05-second gap between the gold and silver medallists in the men’s 100m final the day before.Simbu and Petros were given the same time of two hours, nine minutes and 48 seconds, the German taking the silver despite heading the field as the leaders entered Tokyo’s National Stadium.Italy’s Iliass Aouani took the bronze in 2:09.53.“When we entered the stadium, I was not sure if I would win,” the 33-year-old Simbu said.

“I did not know if I had won.But when I saw the video screens and me on the top of the results, I felt relieved.I made history today – the first Tanzanian gold medal at a world championships.”The finish was closer than at the 2001 championships in Edmonton, when Ethiopia’s Gezahegne Abera beat Kenya’s Simon Biwott by a single second.South Africa’s Josia Thugwane won the closest Olympic men’s marathon by three seconds against South Korea’s Lee Bong-ju at the 1996 Atlanta Games