****Winners Of The 2013 World Championships in Athletics**** * Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce both won three gold medals in the men’s and women’s 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 m relay respectively to become the most successful athletes at the event.Usain Bolt moved to the top of the all-time World Championships medal table by winning three gold medals.It was Bolt’s second three gold performance at the World Championships.With this victory Usain Bolt has joined the club of highest (8) gold medal winners list along with American women’s 200m specialist Allyson Felix, and retired US track stars Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson including relays................. * Christina Obergfoll of Germany won the women’s javelin title with a throw of 69.05 metres ............... * French athlete Teddy Tamgho claimed gold in the men’s triple jump event ,, with a jump measuring 18.04m........... * In the Men’s 1, 500 metres race Kenyan Asbel Kiprop ( 3min:36.2 sec) won the gold and Eunice Jepkoech Sum of Kenya won gold in Women’s 800 metres race (1min :57.38 sec).......... * Women’s 10,000 meters Race :- Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia)..... *Men’s 10,000 meters Race :- Double Olympic champion Mo Farah of Britain created history once again in Moscow as he became the first British man to win a 10,000m world title.The Somalia-born Mo Farah went down in the history books as just the second man to win the 5000 and 10,000m races at the Olympics and the world championships......... * Men’s 20 kilometres Walk :- Aleksandr Ivanov (Russia)...... * Women’s Marathon :- Kenya’s Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat becomes the first women in history to defend her world championship marathon title............ * Shot put :- New Zealand’s Valerie Adams has become the first woman to win four individual world athletics titles in the same event........... * Men’s 110 metres Hurdles :- David Oliver (USA).......... * Men’s 400metres Hurdles :- Jehu Gordon (Trinidad)........... * Women’s 400 metres Hurdles :- Zuzana Hejnova (Czech Republic ).......... * Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva won gold..Yelena Isinbayeva is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder in the event, who is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time..........
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 07:15:12 +0000
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