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Medals Table
G S B Tot
1 CHN 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 RUS 23 21 28 72
4 GBR 19 13 15 47
5 GER 16 10 15 41
6 AUS 14 15 17 46
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Athletics

Men's 50km Walk:

1 Alex Schwazer (Ita) 3h37:09, 2 Jared Tallent (Aus) 3h39:27, 3 Denis Nizhegorodov (Rus) 3h40:14, 4 Jesus Angel Garcia (Spa) 3h44:08, 5 Erik Tysse (Nor) 3h45:08, 6 Horacio Nava (Mex) 3h45:21, 7 Yuki Yamazaki (Jpn) 3h45:47, 8 Rafal Fedaczynski (Pol) 3h46:51, 9 Grzegorz Sudol (Pol) 3h47:18, 10 Luke Adams (Aus) 3h47:45, 11 Antonio Pereira (Por) 3h48:12, 12 Andre Hohne (Ger) 3h49:52, 13 Mikel Odriozola (Spa) 3h51:30, 14 Li Jianbo (Chn) 3h52:20, 15 Jarkko Kinnunen (Fin) 3h52:25, 16 Igors Kazakevics (Lat) 3h52:38, 17 Si Tianfeng (Chn) 3h52:58, 18 Jesus Sanchez (Mex) 3h52:58, 19 Marco de Luca (Ita) 3h54:47, 20 Antti Kempas (Fin) 3h55:19, 21 Zhao Chengliang (Chn) 3h56:47, 22 Luis Fernando Garcia (Gua) 3h56:58, 23 Mario Ivan Flores (Mex) 3h58:04, 24 Sergiy Budza (Ukr) 3h58:21, 25 Fausto Quinde (Ecu) 3h59:28, 26 Santiago Perez (Spa) 3h59:41, 27 Oleksiy Shelest (Ukr) 3h59:46, 28 Eddy Riva (Fra) 4h00:49, 29 Takayuki Tanii (Jpn) 4h01:37, 30 Nenad Filipovic (Ser) 4h02:16, 31 Dong-young Kim (Kor) 4h02:32, 32 Tadas Suskevicius (Lit) 4h02:45, 33 Hatem Ghoula (Tun) 4h03:47, 34 Rodrigo Moreno (Col) 4h03:52, 35 Milos Batovsky (Svk) 4h06:30, 36 Xavier Moreno (Ecu) 4h07:04, 37 Konstadinos Stefanopoulos (Gre) 4h07:53, 38 Tim Berrett (Can) 4h08:18, 39 Phillip Dunn (USA) 4h08:32, 40 Augusto Cardoso (Por) 4h09:00, 41 Jr Mario Jose dos Santos (Bra) 4h10:25, 42 Ingus Janevics (Lat) 4h12:45, 43 Andrei Stsepanchuk (Blr) 4h14:09, 44 Jamie Costin (Irl) 4h15:16, 45 Roman Bilek (Cze) 4h18:32, 46 Zoltan Czukor (Hun) 4h20:07, 47 Kazimir Verkin (Svk) 4h21:26

Adam Rutter (Aus) DNF, Yohan Diniz (Fra) DNF, Donatas Skarnulis (Lit) DNF, Trond Nymark (Nor) DNF, Sergey Kirdyapkin (Rus) DNF, Peter Korcok (Svk) DNF, Oleksiy Kazanin (Ukr) DNF, Joao Vieira (Por) DNS, Igor Erokhin (Rus) DNS, Salvador Mira (Esa) DQ, Colin Griffin (Irl) DQ, Diego Cafagna (Ita) DQ, Darius Skarnulis (Lit) DQ, Artur Brzozowski (Pol) DQ

Decathlon Final Ranking: 1 Bryan Clay (USA), 2 Andrei Krauchanka (Blr), 3 Leonel Suarez (Cub), 4 Alexander Pogorelov (Rus) 8328 pts, 5 Romain Barras (Fra) 8253 pts, 6 Roman Sebrle (Cze) 8241 pts, 7 Oleksiy Kasyanov (Ukr) 8238 pts, 8 Andre Niklaus (Ger) 8220 pts, 9 Maurice Smith (Jam) 8205 pts, 10 Michael Schrader (Ger) 8194 pts, 11 Mikk Pahapill (Est) 8178 pts, 12 Aleksey Drozdov (Rus) 8154 pts, 13 Andres Raja (Est) 8118 pts, 14 Eugene Martineau (Ned) 8055 pts, 15 Yordani Garcia (Cub) 7992 pts, 16 Mikalai Shubianok (Blr) 7906 pts, 17 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (Blr) 7838 pts, 18 Qi Haifeng (Chn) 7835 pts, 19 Massimo Bertocchi (Can) 7714 pts, 20 Jangy Addy (Lbr) 7665 pts, 21 Daniel Awde (Gbr) 7516 pts, 22 Hadi Sepehrzad (Irn) 7483 pts, 23 Damjan Sitar (Slo) 7336 pts, 24 Slaven Dizdarevic (Svk) 7021 pts, 25 David Gomez (Spa) 6876 pts, 26 Mikko Halvari (Fin) 6486 pts

Frederic Xhonneux (Bel) DNF, Hans van Alphen (Bel) DNF, Carlos Chinin (Bra) DNF, Gonzalo Barroilhet (Chi) DNF, Arthur Abele (Ger) DNF, Attila Zsivoczky (Hun) DNF, Dmitriy Karpov (Kaz) DNF, Janis Karlivans (Lat) DNF, Victor Covalenco (Mol) DNF, Alexey Sysoev (Rus) DNF, Trey Hardee (USA) DNF, Tom Pappas (USA) DNF, Pavel Andreev (Uzb) DNF, Vitaliy Smirnov (Uzb) DNF

Decathlon 110m Hurdles

Heat 1: 1 Yordani Garcia (Cub) 13.90 pts, 2 Hadi Sepehrzad (Irn) 14.64 pts, 3 Roman Sebrle (Cze) 14.71 pts, 4 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (Blr) 15.06 pts, 5 Aleksey Drozdov (Rus) 15.51 pts, 6 Slaven Dizdarevic (Svk) 15.61 pts

Victor Covalenco (Mol) DNS, Pavel Andreev (Uzb) DNS

Heat 2: 1 Bryan Clay (USA) 13.93 pts, 2 Andres Raja (Est) 14.06 pts, 3 Maurice Smith (Jam) 14.08 pts, 4 Leonel Suarez (Cub) 14.15 pts, 5 Trey Hardee (USA) 14.20 pts, 6 Andrei Krauchanka (Blr) 14.21 pts, 7 Gonzalo Barroilhet (Chi) 14.26 pts, 8 Jangy Addy (Lbr) 14.31 pts, 9 Massimo Bertocchi (Can) 14.32 pts

Heat 3: 1 Romain Barras (Fra) 14.21 pts, 2 Oleksiy Kasyanov (Ukr) 14.37 pts, 3 Andre Niklaus (Ger) 14.37 pts, 4 Alexander Pogorelov (Rus) 14.47 pts, 5 Mikk Pahapill (Est) 14.51 pts, 6 Mikalai Shubianok (Blr) 14.52 pts, 7 David Gomez (Spa) 14.61 pts, 8 Eugene Martineau (Ned) 14.73 pts

Carlos Chinin (Bra) DNS

Heat 4: 1 Qi Haifeng (Chn) 14.60 pts, 2 Daniel Awde (Gbr) 14.69 pts, 3 Michael Schrader (Ger) 14.71 pts, 4 Damjan Sitar (Slo) 15.03 pts, 5 Janis Karlivans (Lat) 15.28 pts, 6 Mikko Halvari (Fin) 16.25 pts

Alexey Sysoev (Rus) DNF, Frederic Xhonneux (Bel) DNS

Decathlon Discus Throw

Group A: 1 Bryan Clay (USA) 53.79 pts, 2 Maurice Smith (Jam) 50.91 pts, 3 Alexander Pogorelov (Rus) 50.04 pts, 4 Mikk Pahapill (Est) 49.35 pts, 5 Mikko Halvari (Fin) 47.71 pts, 6 Qi Haifeng (Chn) 46.46 pts, 7 Mikalai Shubianok (Blr) 45.80 pts, 8 Roman Sebrle (Cze) 45.50 pts, 9 Andre Niklaus (Ger) 45.39 pts, 10 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (Blr) 45.27 pts, 11 Janis Karlivans (Lat) 44.54 pts, 12 Leonel Suarez (Cub) 44.45 pts, 13 Eugene Martineau (Ned) 44.09 pts, 14 Jangy Addy (Lbr) 42.30 pts

Frederic Xhonneux (Bel) DNS, Alexey Sysoev (Rus) DNS, Pavel Andreev (Uzb) DNS

Group B: 1 Hadi Sepehrzad (Irn) 50.32 pts, 2 Oleksiy Kasyanov (Ukr) 48.39 pts, 3 Aleksey Drozdov (Rus) 47.43 pts, 4 Gonzalo Barroilhet (Chi) 46.07 pts, 5 Romain Barras (Fra) 45.17 pts, 6 Massimo Bertocchi (Can) 44.91 pts, 7 Andrei Krauchanka (Blr) 44.58 pts, 8 Trey Hardee (USA) 43.55 pts, 9 Michael Schrader (Ger) 40.41 pts, 10 David Gomez (Spa) 40.17 pts, 11 Slaven Dizdarevic (Svk) 39.86 pts, 12 Andres Raja (Est) 39.83 pts, 13 Damjan Sitar (Slo) 39.25 pts, 14 Daniel Awde (Gbr) 37.12 pts, 15 Yordani Garcia (Cub) 36.73 pts

Carlos Chinin (Bra) DNS, Victor Covalenco (Mol) DNS

Decathlon Pole Vault

Group A: 1 Aleksey Drozdov (Rus) 5.10 pts, 2 Daniel Awde (Gbr) 4.90 pts, 3 Yordani Garcia (Cub) 4.70 pts, 4 Mikalai Shubianok (Blr) 4.60 pts, 5 Maurice Smith (Jam) 4.60 pts, 6 Qi Haifeng (Chn) 4.30 pts, 6 Oleksiy Kasyanov (Ukr) 4.30 pts, 8 Jangy Addy (Lbr) 4.20 pts, 9 Damjan Sitar (Slo) 4.00 pts, 10 Slaven Dizdarevic (Svk) 4.00 pts, 11 Hadi Sepehrzad (Irn) 4.00 pts

Carlos Chinin (Bra) DNS, Janis Karlivans (Lat) DNS, Victor Covalenco (Mol) DNS, Pavel Andreev (Uzb) DNS, Mikko Halvari (Fin) NM, David Gomez (Spa) NM

Group B: 1 Andre Niklaus (Ger) 5.20 pts, 2 Andrei Krauchanka (Blr) 5.00 pts, 2 Alexander Pogorelov (Rus) 5.00 pts, 2 Bryan Clay (USA) 5.00 pts, 5 Romain Barras (Fra) 5.00 pts, 6 Andres Raja (Est) 4.80 pts, 7 Roman Sebrle (Cze) 4.80 pts, 7 Mikk Pahapill (Est) 4.80 pts, 9 Michael Schrader (Ger) 4.80 pts, 10 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (Blr) 4.70 pts, 10 Massimo Bertocchi (Can) 4.70 pts, 10 Eugene Martineau (Ned) 4.70 pts, 13 Leonel Suarez (Cub) 4.70 pts

Frederic Xhonneux (Bel) DNS, Alexey Sysoev (Rus) DNS, Gonzalo Barroilhet (Chi) NM, Trey Hardee (USA) NM

Decathlon Javelin Throw

Group A: 1 Yordani Garcia (Cub) 65.60 pts, 2 Romain Barras (Fra) 65.40 pts, 3 Aleksey Drozdov (Rus) 62.57 pts, 4 David Gomez (Spa) 62.22 pts, 5 Michael Schrader (Ger) 60.27 pts, 6 Daniel Awde (Gbr) 53.18 pts, 7 Jangy Addy (Lbr) 52.50 pts, 8 Oleksiy Kasyanov (Ukr) 51.59 pts, 9 Maurice Smith (Jam) 51.52 pts, 10 Hadi Sepehrzad (Irn) 49.56 pts, 11 Damjan Sitar (Slo) 47.23 pts, 12 Massimo Bertocchi (Can) 45.33 pts, 13 Slaven Dizdarevic (Svk) 43.58 pts

Gonzalo Barroilhet (Chi) DNS

Group B: 1 Leonel Suarez (Cub) 73.98 pts, 2 Eugene Martineau (Ned) 71.44 pts, 3 Bryan Clay (USA) 70.97 pts, 4 Andres Raja (Est) 67.16 pts, 5 Mikk Pahapill (Est) 67.07 pts, 6 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (Blr) 64.60 pts, 7 Alexander Pogorelov (Rus) 64.01 pts, 8 Roman Sebrle (Cze) 63.93 pts, 9 Qi Haifeng (Chn) 63.09 pts, 10 Mikalai Shubianok (Blr) 62.10 pts, 11 Andrei Krauchanka (Blr) 60.23 pts, 12 Andre Niklaus (Ger) 60.21 pts, 13 Mikko Halvari (Fin) 55.11 pts

Trey Hardee (USA) DNS

Decathlon 1500m

Heat 1: 1 Michael Schrader (Ger) 4:26.77 pts, 2 David Gomez (Spa) 4:30.74 pts, 3 Damjan Sitar (Slo) 4:37.37 pts, 4 Eugene Martineau (Ned) 4:37.96 pts, 5 Mikalai Shubianok (Blr) 4:38.14 pts, 6 Qi Haifeng (Chn) 4:39.32 pts, 7 Massimo Bertocchi (Can) 4:42.26 pts, 8 Daniel Awde (Gbr) 4:44.80 pts, 9 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (Blr) 4:45.17 pts, 10 Slaven Dizdarevic (Svk) 4:51.42 pts, 11 Hadi Sepehrzad (Irn) 5:06.67 pts, 12 Jangy Addy (Lbr) 5:12.22 pts, 13 Mikko Halvari (Fin) 5:20.26 pts

Heat 2: 1 Andrei Krauchanka (Blr) 4:27.47 pts, 2 Oleksiy Kasyanov (Ukr) 4:28.94 pts, 3 Leonel Suarez (Cub) 4:29.17 pts, 4 Romain Barras (Fra) 4:29.29 pts, 5 Maurice Smith (Jam) 4:31.62 pts, 6 Andre Niklaus (Ger) 4:32.90 pts, 7 Aleksey Drozdov (Rus) 4:41.34 pts, 8 Mikk Pahapill (Est) 4:47.03 pts, 9 Andres Raja (Est) 4:49.60 pts, 10 Roman Sebrle (Cze) 4:49.63 pts, 11 Yordani Garcia (Cub) 5:00.49 pts, 12 Alexander Pogorelov (Rus) 5:01.56 pts, 13 Bryan Clay (USA) 5:06.59 pts

4 x 100m Relay Final: 1 Jamaica 37.10, 2 Trinidad/Tobago 38.06, 3 Japan 38.15, 4 Brazil 38.24, 5 Germany 38.58, 6 Canada 38.66, 7 Netherlands 45.81

China DQ

4 x 400m Relay Round 1

Heat 1: 1 United States 2:59.98 (Q), 2 Russian Feder 3:00.14 (Q), 3 Belgium 3:00.67 (Q), 4 Australia 3:00.68, 5 Poland 3:00.74, 6 S Africa 3:01.26, 7 Cuba 3:02.24, 8 France 3:03.19

Heat 2: 1 Gr Britain 2:59.33 (Q), 2 Bahamas 2:59.88 (Q), 3 Jamaica 3:00.09 (Q), 4 Germany 3:03.49, 5 Trinidad/Tobago 3:04.12, 6 Japan 3:04.18, 7 Greece 3:04.30, 8 Domonican Rep 3:04.31

Pole Vault Final: 1 Steve Hooker (Aus), 2 Evgeny Lukyanenko (Rus), 3 Denys Yurchenko (Ukr), 4 Derek Miles (USA) 5.70m, 5 Dmitry Starodubtsev (Rus) 5.70m, 6 Danny Ecker (Ger) 5.70m, 7 Jerome Clavier (Fra) 5.60m, 8 Raphael Holzdeppe (Ger) 5.60m, 9 Igor Pavlov (Rus) 5.60m, 10 Jan Kudlicka (Cze) 5.45m, 11 Przemyslaw Czerwinski (Pol) 5.45m

Giuseppe Gibilisco (Ita) NM, Leonid Andreev (Uzb) NM

Women's 5000m Final:

1 Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth), 2 Elvan Abeylegesse (Tur), 3 Meseret Defar (Eth), 4 Sylvia Kibet (Ken) 15:44.96, 5 Vivian Cheruiyot (Ken) 15:46.32, 6 Lilia Shobukhova (Rus) 15:46.62, 7 Alemitu Bekele (Tur) 15:48.48, 8 Meselech Melkamu (Eth) 15:49.03, 9 Kara Goucher (USA) 15:49.39, 10 Shalane Flanagan (USA) 15:50.80, 11 Priscah Jepleting Cherono (Ken) 15:51.78, 12 Gulnara Galkina-Samitova (Rus) 15:56.97, 13 Xue Fei (Chn) 16:09.84, 14 Jennifer Rhines (USA) 16:34.63, 15 Megan Metcalfe (Can) 17:06.82

Long Jump Final: 1 Maurren Higa Maggi (Bra) 7.04 (Wind speed: +0.2)m, 2 Tatyana Lebedeva (Rus) 7.03 (Wind speed: +0.4)m, 3 Blessing Okagbare (Ngr) 6.91 (Wind speed: +0.1)m, 4 Chelsea Hammond (Jam) 6.79 (Wind speed: +0.2)m, 5 Brittney Reese (USA) 6.76 (Wind speed: +0.4)m, 6 Oksana Udmurtova (Rus) 6.70 (Wind speed: +0.6)m, 7 Jade Johnson (Gbr) 6.64 (Wind speed: +0.7)m, 8 Grace Upshaw (USA) 6.58 (Wind speed: +0.4)m, 9 Carolina Kluft (Swe) 6.49 (Wind speed: +0.2)m, 10 Tabia Charles (Can) 6.47 (Wind speed: +0.5)m, 11 Keila Costa (Bra) 6.43 (Wind speed: +0.3)m, 12 Funmilayo Jimoh (USA) 6.29 (Wind speed: +0.2)m

4 x 100m Relay Final: 1 Russian Feder, 2 Belgium, 3 Nigeria, 4 Brazil 43.14, 5 Germany 43.28

Gr Britain DNF, Jamaica DNF, Poland DQ

4x400m relay Round 1 Summary:

Heat 1: 1 Russian Feder 3:23.71 (Q), 2 Cuba 3:25.46 (Q), 3 Gr Britain 3:25.48 (Q), 4 Germany 3:25.55 (q), 5 Ukraine 3:27.44, 6 Poland 3:28.23, 7 India 3:28.83, 8 Japan 3:30.52

Heat 2: 1 United States 3:22.45 (Q), 2 Jamaica 3:22.60 (Q), 3 Belarus 3:22.78 (Q), 4 Nigeria 3:24.10 (q), 5 France 3:26.61, 6 Brazil 3:30.10, 7 Mexico 3:30.36, 8 China 3:30.77

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