Emmanouil Karalis clips the bar at 6.20m so gold goes to Armand Duplantis! The two shake hands but the crowd are waiting … is Duplantis going to try to break his 14th world record now that he has won gold?Here is Sean Ingle’s verdict on an exceptional day at the Japan National Stadium.The Swede’s first attempt failed by the tiniest of margins.The second was even closer.As he prepared for the final attempt, the Greek athlete Emmanouil Karalis, who had taken silver with a six metre clearance, blew a fan in his face.

It was time.And Duplantis was armed with a second weapon – a stiffer pole to help him get higher.The crowd roared and then gasped.Duplantis was over.And soon he was charging around the track and punching the sky, with half-a-dozen TV cameramen trying to chase him down.

Read the full report below.And that brings an end to today’s action at the World Athletics Championships.Thank you for tuning in and join us for live coverage tomorrow!The Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker was disqualified from the event at the world championships after he barged his way through a crowd on the home straight of his semi-final to earn a qualifying slot.Hocker was boxed in on the inside with nowhere to go, just as he had been in the Olympic final a year ago.He saw a sliver of a gap open and charged through between two rivals, even turning slightly sideways to go through shoulder-first, and then broke clear to finish second.

“It was tight, I was looking for any kind of gap I could find,” Hocker said after the race.“I tried my best to get through there as cleanly as possible, but I knew everybody was going to be coming from behind really fast.“I got a little bit trapped in there.I have been in that position a few times before and I just tried to stay calm.I trust my instincts and just try to move through as well as I can.

”The US team’s appeal was rejected,ReutersUsain Bolt used to be a star at the world championships but now he is just happy to live a more relaxed lifestyle,I just chill out,I might work out sometimes if I’m in a good mood,I just watch some series and just chill until the kids come home.

I spend some time with them, hang out, until they start annoying me, then I leave,” he added.“And then afterwards, I just stay at home and watch movies or I’m into Lego now, so I do Lego.Read more on Bolt’s thoughts of the current generation of runners and more below.Our gold medallists of the day:Men’s pole vault: Duplantis goes to every single corner of the stadium and bows to the crowd, who you can tell were urging that bar to stay up.What a treat for Tokyo who missed out on watching their home Olympics due to Covid.

Duplantis’s competitors from the final mob him in congratulatory hugs and after he goes to celebrate with his fiance and family, with tens of cameras trying to capture every second.What a moment!It is approaching 11pm in Tokyo but the stands are full.Everyone is ready for Mondo’s final attempt of breaking his 14th world record.He is aiming for 6.30m and … he has done it!The greatest pole vaulter of all time is the flying Swede as he rushes to the crowd.

We are watching a legend,Men’s pole vault: The world record is broken … no it isn’t! He has the height but his chest clips the bar on the way down,Such a tease! He will have one more attempt,The Olympic champion Cole Hocker of the United States has been disqualified from the final of the men’s 1500m for jostling,The American put his two arms ahead of two racers ahead of him and pulled them apart, making way for himself.

Germany’s Robert Farken is the one who made the appeal and is now in the final.Hocker and USATF will appeal against the decision.Men’s pole vault: Ohhh, so close! He certainly had the height but the bar comes down with his arm.He goes again.Men’s pole vault: Looks like the great Mundo has decided to go for the world record height of 6.

30m.He has taken out a new pole from his bag and is on the runway, getting the crowd to clap.Emmanouil Karalis clips the bar at 6.20m so gold goes to Armand Duplantis! The two shake hands but the crowd are waiting … is Duplantis going to try to break his 14th world record now that he has won gold?Men’s pole vault final: Karalis is now attempting a monumental personal best of 6.15m, a height that could deliver a stunning upset.

And he comes breathtakingly close! He is over the bar, only to have it tremble and fall with the slightest of touches.Duplantis approaches the same formidable height and, as he has done so many times before, makes it look effortless.It is a new national record for Switzerland! Ditaji Kambundji did not even know she won until the scores came on the screen but a flawless run of 12.24 gives her the win.That puts her in the all-time top 10 runs.

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan takes silver and the US’s Grace Stark bronze.The Olympic champion Masai Russell seemed to stumble halfway and never recovered.Women’s 100m hurdles final: Amusan is the world record-holder but the Olympic champion Russell will do her best to pip her to gold … here we go!Men’s pole vault final: Close! It is safe to say Karalis has got the height to clear 6.10m but it is just his arm that gets in the way on his first attempt.Duplantis clears it and then hits a bow-and-arrow celebration.

Can Karalis respond?Canada’s Camryn Rogers earlier threw 80.51m and is sure to take gold.She is only the fourth athlete ever to throw over 80m.For silver it was between Zhang and Zhao, both from China battling it out.Zhang, the 18-year-old, was in second but Zhao’s final throw at 77.

60m pipped her countrywoman to silver.Men’s pole vault final: Marschall fails to clear 6m but he is guaranteed bronze and beams as he accepts the applause.Duplantis and Karalis will battle for gold.Soufiane El Bakkali, the greatest steeplechaser of modern times, is in tears on the floor as he is pipped to gold by Geordie Beamish, who crosses the line first with a time of 8:33.88.

Wow! That is New Zealand’s first track gold at the world athletics championships.El Bakkali is so used to winning and he looked to be on track for another gold as he leaped ahead in the final lap but he was just beaten right on the line.The Morrocan does shake Beamish’s hands but he punches his own head in frustration.Men’s 3000m steeplechase final: We are about halfway and El Bakkali is at the back, watching it all, happy with the 15m distance between him and first place.When will he make his move to the front?Men’s 3000m steeplechase final: The path to the title appears to run through Morocco, with El Bakkali considered the favourite after a commanding performance in his heat.

The Moroccan has been a dominant force, collecting either an Olympic or world gold in each of the last four years and is known for ending Kenya’s dominance in the steeplechaseHot on his heels is Girma, the Ethiopian world record-holder and a three-time world silver medallist,His quest for gold has been marked by caution, as he has only raced twice since a devastating fall in the Olympic final,Men’s 1500m: Second semi-final is underway,Hocker was the Olympic champion in Paris but he has yet to win a 1500m event since then (aside from his heat yesterday),Cheruiyot (Kenya) just about finishes first ahead of him in the end after a mess of a finish.

Ben (Spain), Nader (Portugal), Koech (US) and Gourley (GB) are also through.Gourley just snuck into the finals by a thousandth of a second and he says he needs to go check in to make sure his mum is still breathing.Men’s pole vault final: Karalis needs all three chances to clear 5.95m but he clears 6m on his first try.Two massive jumps from the Greek but Duplantis also clears 6m on his first try.

The are neck-in-neck.Marschall and Kendrick cannot get over 6m on their first attempt.Men’s pole vault final: Kendricks is off running in celebration as he clears 5.95m in his second attempt! That is a season best.Up next is Australia’s Marshalls … he clears it at his second attempt! That is his personal best! He celebrates with Kendricks – you kind of feel that they all want to dethrone Duplantis.

Men’s 1500m: Oh it is crowded near the end and we need to see a photo-finish,Kerr was leading the pack but it is Laros who finishes in first ahead of Kerr,Wightman (GB), Cheruiyot (Kenya), Coscoran (Ireland) and Pihlström (Sweden) are also through,Men’s 1500m: Our semi-final is underway,Two heats of 12 with the first six of each heat to qualify.

Our first heat includes GB’s Kerr and Wightman.The Netherlands’s Laros, another favourite alongside Kerr, is also in this heat.Kerr is very confident in his chances in the 1500m, hoping to be the fourth man to defend his title.Men’s pole vault final: Duplantis has taken the lead in the men’s pole vault final.Karalis of Greece, failed to clear 5.

95m at his first attempt, as did Kendricks.Women’s 100m hurdles: In heat two, Amusan of Nigeria and Visser of the Netherlands secured the two automatic qualification spots, finishing in 12.63 and 12.45, respectively.Skrzyszowska of Poland placed third with a time of 12.

53, making her the top non-automatic qualifier for now.In the third heat, Russell – the current Olympic champion – breezed through as did the Jamaican reigning world champion Williams.Men’s pole vault final: Greece’s Karalis, the Olympic bronze medallist, is the only other competitor to have cleared 6m this year aside from Duplantis.Karalis just successfully cleared 5.90m, a height Duplantis skipped.

Australia’s Marschall, France’s Collet and the Netherland’s Vloom have also just cleared 5.90m, with Vloom curling his whole body to just clear the bar.Women’s hammer throw final: Canada’s Rogers, the reigning Olympic, world and Commonwealth champion, gets us started with 78.09.She puts the marker down! China Zhang – just 18 years old – roars as she throws a 76.

22.Women’s 100m hurdles: US’s Stark and Switzerland’s Kambundji start fast and end fast, finishing first and second.Jamaica’s Nugent, who is generally quite strong at the back end of the race, but catches one of the final hurdles and she never was able to get back in it.Women’s 100m hurdles: Yikes! Finland’s Harala with the false start and she is shown the red card.It was clear as day and she is certainly not going to contest that