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Just as he did at the London Olympics, the Kenyan David Rudisha lights up the track in Beijing. The reigning Olympic champion and world record holder won the men's 800m world championship gold inside Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium. Here's the BBC's athletics commentator Ed Harry.
Rudisha has a global title for the first time since London 2012. Three years marred by injury but now he's completed the climb back to the top. The world record holder is world champion again four years after he first won this title.
The challenge of Amel Tuka never came. The world's fastest man in 2015 finishing in third to win Bosnia and Herzegovina their very first world championship medal. It was silver for Adam Kszczot of Poland.
Kenya's other gold was a real surprise. Nicholas Bett is the first man from his country to win the 400 hurdles of the world. He broke Kenya's 22-year-old national record to do it. |