Schippers shatters 200 metres record, silences critics
Dafne Schippers of The Netherlands celebrates with her national flag next to the time board displaying her new championship record winning time after taking gold in women's 200 metres at the IAAF World Championships at the Bird's Nest National
Beijing: Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers won gold in an electric women’s 200m at the world championships on Friday. Schippers, who took silver in the 100m, timed a championship and European record of 21.63 seconds to edge Jamaican Elaine Thompson, with a personal best of 21.66sec, into silver.
Two-time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, who previously won the world title in Daegu in 2011 having also claimed silvers in Osaka and Berlin, claimed bronze in 21.97sec.
Liu Hong won the women’s 20 kilometres walk on Friday to hand China its first gold medal of the Beijing world championships, as defending champion Ashton Eaton took control of the decathlon.
The morning after Usain Bolt’s emphatic 200m win at the Bird’s Nest stadium, Liu gave home fans something to cheer when she headed a Chinese one-two in the walk with “little sister” Lu Xiuzhi.
The pair broke early and built up a massive lead in Beijing’s scorching morning heat, with Liu coming home for gold in one hour 27.45 minutes with Lu right behind her. Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Olyanovska took bronze, 28 seconds behind.
“There was a lot of pressure but I was confident in this mission,” said Liu, who added that she had struck a pact with Lu not to race each other in the final kilometres. The world record-holder timed 10.23 secconds in the opening 100m before leaping a best of 7.88 metres in the long jump event.
Khushbir finishes disappointing 37th Khushbir Kaur finished a disappointing 37th while compatriot Sapna was disqualified from the women’s 20km race walk event on the seventh day of the event.
Khushbir, who has already qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics, clocked 1:38:53 to finish 37th. Khushbir, who has already qualified for the Rio Olympics, clocked 1:38:53 to finish 37th. Her time today was more than seven minutes of and national record of 1:31:40.
( Source : agencies )
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