2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres, Summary
As Kiprop swept past the field after the North African duo, only Silas Kiplagat came with him, these four breaking from the rest. As Kiprop caught Iguider, he reacted and ran even with Kiprop up to Makhloufi. With 50 metres to go, it was three abreast across the track with Kiplagat chasing Kiprop on the outside less than two metres back. Kiprop broke past the two North Africans and ran on to victory, while Iguider edged ahead of a spent Makhloufi.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres, Summary
Out of nowhere (actually a distant fifth place) came sprinting Manangoi, faster than any of the leaders, drifting out to lane 3 for clear sailing. Passing three people in the last 10 metres, Manangoi crossed the finish line just ahead of a desperately diving Iguider to take silver, Iguider doing a full face plant to the track across the finish line holding on to bronze.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk
The men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Summary
From the gun, the three Chinese athletes made it clear they were going to make an effort to take this home race. The effort almost worked, as the group ultimately led by Olympic bronze medalist Wang Zhen held the lead until the bell. At almost that moment, returning bronze medalist Miguel Ángel López had finally worked his way back to the lead. The strain of leading showed on Wang's face as Lopez cruised past. Lopez built upon that lead for the final lap and route back into the stadium. Canadian Benjamin Thorne set the Canadian record on his way to the bronze medal in a national record time.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk, Summary
A deeper story might be in who was not here. After years of the Viktor Chegin drug related cheating scandal, no Russian athlete entered the race, ending their dominance of world podiums. Recent world record setting Yusuke Suzuki also dropped out near the half way mark with a hip injury. Andrés Chocho was making an effort to challenge the leaders late into the race, but instead was invited to leave the course with a red paddle.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 25, 26 and 27 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 24 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
The Kenyan dominance of this event is well noted. Coming off the race in Monaco, running the #3 non-Kenyan time in history even after falling over the last barrier and losing three to five seconds, Evan Jager had the confidence to run with the Kenyans at the front of the pack. Still, three of the Kenyans in this race were ahead of him on that list. This was a strategic race, with the Kenyan team asserting dominance in front of the pack but not running away from the field. Non


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
-team player, multi-defending champion Ezekiel Kemboi didn't share the lead duties, instead spending the entire first six laps on the rail about 2-3 runners behind the lead. At the bell, Jager took the lead and tried to launch his sprint. As the race accelerated, only the four Kenyans and Brahim Taleb were able to stay at the front. Conseslus Kipruto and Jairus Kipchoge Birech passed Jager a step before the barrier at the beginning of the backstretch.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
After landing that barrier, defending champion Kemboi took off sprinting passing Jager on the inside and his compatriots on the outside before taking the next barrier clearly in the lead. After opening up a gap through the water jump, Conseslus came back swinging wide on the home stretch looking like he was going to run past Kemboi. Instead Conseslus had to noticeably adjust his stride, taking the final barrier awkwardly. Kemboi took it smoothly and sprinted home to victory, drifting out only to lane 3 this time in celebration. Behind them, Birech took his final barrier awkwardly and Brimin Kipruto caught him for the bronze medal.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
Now 33 years old, Ezekiel Kemboi proved his illustrious career is not over. He became the first person to win an event in the world championships four times in a row. In addition to the four championships in a row, he took the silver medal in the three World Championships before that, silver or gold seven times in a row. Add to that, a pair of Olympic gold medals in the same time frame. And the scenario remains the same, the final lap backstretch burst and a Kipruto struggling over the last barrier while trying to catch up.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary, Heats
Jamaica ran Rasheed Dwyer to rest Usain Bolt in the heats. The United States employed a rare strategy of running the main team and not resting any runners.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary, Heats
The US won the first heat with Great Britain second while resting Chijindu Ujah. Jamaica won the second heat. China set an Asian Continental Record in their heat.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary, Final race
The United States managed a clean handoff two times between Trayvon Bromell, Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay, while Jamaica  stiff between Nesta Carter and Asafa Powell. Around the final turn, Nickel Ashmeade made up ground on Gay. The final baton change between Mike Rodgers and Tyson Gay was completed outside the changeover zone and the American team was disqualified.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary, Final race
Jamaica won, with China second and Canada third. Britain did not finish after failing to complete the final baton change.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 and 30 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
During the heats, the United States and Trinidad and Tobago showed they were teams to be reckoned with. Botswana showed immense raw talent but in severe need of coaching in the finesse of running competitive relays. Elite American high school teams like Long Beach Poly, where Bryshon Nellum attended, would have been taught how to deal with handoff traffic and Botswana should have qualified.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
In the finals, the first legs between Trinidad and Tobago (Renny Quow), Great Britain (Rabah Yousif) and USA (David Verburg) were relatively close, exchanging in that order. France, Belgium and Jamaica were all close in the mix. American Tony McQuay sped around the turn before the break and got enough of a lead to shut the door on the other teams, gaining a couple of metres as they dropped back to regroup and try to pass.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
Lalonde Gordon was able to put T&T slightly ahead at the handoff with a gap back to Great Britain and France, with Jamaica a few steps further behind. Down the backstretch Rusheen McDonald brought Jamaica around into third. As he paid for his efforts on the home stretch, he served as a blockade for Britain and France, Kevin Borlée brought Belgium around the outside into third by the handoff. On the front, Deon Lendore, chased by Nellum stayed relatively even, with 400 finalist Machel Cedenio taking the baton ahead of 400 silver medalist LaShawn Merritt.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
Merritt fell in behind Cedenio, who he had beaten by a second and a half four days earlier, to strategically prepare for a final pass. Javon Francis brought Jamaica all the way from fifth place to sprinting past the lead duo on the backstretch. Merritt went around Cedenio and started moving in on Francis for that final move. Coming onto the home stretch, Merritt executed his best move on Francis leaving him behind while Martyn Rooney was edging up on Cedenio. Francis, paying for his early speed, began to look like slow motion while everybody else was in real time. Merritt went on to victory, Cedenio separated from Rooney and sped past Francis for silver, and just at the line, Rooney was able to dip past Francis for bronze so close it took the photo finish readers a minute to determine.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23, 24 and 26 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Summary
Since 2008, all of the major gold medals had been won by either reigning Olympic champion Kirani James or defending champion LaShawn Merritt. In the final, both were out ahead, along with Wayde van Niekerk and Isaac Makwala, Africans with none of those credentials. Through the final turn, van Niekerk took sole possession of the lead, Makwala passed James to hit the home stretch with a slight advantage in second. Far off the pace was Luguelín Santos. Down the home stretch, Makwala was unable to hold his position and was passed by a burst from James.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Summary
James was unable to hold that burst, Merritt cruised past James but was unable to make any headway on van Niekerk's lead. Merritt made a desperate lean that actually cost him time but was well beaten, Santos followed Merritt down the home stretch to take fourth beating the National Record he set in the semi-final round. van Niekerk's 43.48 improved upon his own African Record, putting him at number 4 on the all-time list. For the first time in history, three men broke 44 seconds. Merritt set the fastest non-winning time of all time at 43.65 seconds. In fact, places 2, 3 and 4 were all the fastest ever in that position.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: Best 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22, 23 and 25 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
While Kenya has dominated the longest hurdle race, the 3000 metres steeplechase since the 1968 Olympics, and John Akii-Bua from neighboring Uganda hinted at what might be the capability of East African athletes in this event, Kenya has never had a medalist at 400 hurdles, until this year. Nicholas Bett was the fastest qualifier in the heats. His teammate Boniface Tumuti was the second fastest in the semi-finals, while Bett struggled into the slowest qualifier into the finals. That put Bett almost unnoticed in the far outside lane. Michael Tinsley was the only returning medalist from recent history and the rest of the world leaders were already eliminated,  making for a very open race. The fastest 5 finalists all ran their personal best just to make the final race.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
Tinsley was the early leader out of the blocks, but was quickly overtaken by Denis Kudryavtsev down the backstretch. Through the turn Tinsley began to hit hurdles, Kudryavtsev the clear leader coming to the straightaway. A couple of meters behind was a wall of Tinsley, Jeffery Gibson and Kerron Clement, with Bett slightly behind them. Kudryavtsev stretched for the ninth hurdle, Tinsley hit it and Bett stormed past. Reminiscent of Kenyan steeplechase finishes, he took the final barrier somewhat awkwardly but continued with so much power that the rest of the field was left behind him. Kudryavtsev held on for silver with a Russian national record. Gibson won the race to the line for bronze, setting his second Bahamian national record of the competition. The once dominant American team, shut out, while Kenya wins its first medal in the event and it was gold.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 4 (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk
The men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
It was difficult to predict the results. Down at number 21 was the double Olympic Champion, defending champion attempting to repeat his double from two years earlier, Mo Farah, undoubtedly the favorite. At number 3 was returning silver medalist Hagos Gebrhiwet coming from the fastest race of the year in Rome, won by his Ethiopian teammate, World Junior Champion Yomif Kejelcha. Returning bronze medalist Isiah Koech was down at number 13. 2014 Diamond League Champion and Commonwealth Games Champion Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku was nowhere to be seen in the top 50 in the world, not having to qualify in the Kenyan trials.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
In the finals, it was a slow pace at the beginning. Absurdly, the organizers placed a water station in lane 9, instead of lane 3 where it was located during the 10,000. At 1200 metres, with the pace dawdling, Farah alone chose to take advantage of the water stop, having to run all the way across the track in both directions, but still maintaining contact with the back of the field. At the front of the pack, by default, was a British uniform, but not Farah, it was Tom Farrell with eyes wandering to the TV monitors. You could sense the entire field was wanting to use a rear view mirror. What is Farah doing back there?


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
After five and a half laps, Farah casually jogged to the outside past the entire field to behind Farrell. Suddenly the scramble was on, people rushing for position. Imane Merga rushed to the front and took a 2-meter lead. Farah marked that and let Merga lead until four and a half laps to go still at an agonizingly slow pace, then Farah decided to take the lead and move just slightly faster. All of the other favorites jockeyed around but none of them seemed to make an attempt to pass him.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
Having watched Farah launch his kick from 500 meters out in the 10,000 metres earlier in this meet, Ndiku tried to go one better and started to run for home with more than 800 to go, Farah running to stay in contact, Gebrhiwet, Galen Rupp, Ben True and Kejelcha in tow. For the next lap the field stretched out. Farah made a brief burst tor try to take the lead just before one lap to go, but Ndiku wouldn't let him by.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
One by one all the other suitors fell off the back, the last Gebrhiwet, finally fading on the backstretch, but Farah crept closer. Around the final turn, Kejelcha passed Gebrhiwet, while Farah moved into position to launch a final kick. With a perfectly executed final sprint, Farah passed Ndiku with 70 metres to go, Ndiku had nothing in the tank to respond with. Behind them Gebrhiwet executed a similar pass against his teammate Kejelcha to take the bronze.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Summary
Ndiku ran the next to the last lap in 56.3 (Farah slightly slower), Farah completed the last 800 metres in 1:49.0  Despite the assortment of national affiliations listed, the entire pack, the top 13 finishers came from just four countries, three of them neighboring countries of East Africa; Somalia 1-12, Kenya 2-8-9-10-11, Ethiopia 3-4-13 and USA 5-6-7.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22, 23 and 25 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Summary
There is a definite change in this event. Returning silver medalist Nick Symmonds and returning bronze medalist Ayanleh Souleiman did not enter. Returning champion Mohammed Aman was disqualified for interference in the semi-final round. In fact, of the eight finalists in 2013, only Pierre-Ambroise Bosse returned to the final. Olympic silver medalist, the promising young Nijel Amos got pipped at the line in his slowest heat of the semi-finals and had to watch the final. World record holder David Rudisha did make the final winning that semi, but has not been running the times he ran during his world record years. The only other finalist with Olympic or World Championship 800 finals experience was 2011 sixth placer Adam Kszczot.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Summary
In the final, as world record holder, Rudisha commanded all eyeballs. The field expected Rudisha to lead and lead he did, but not to a 50-second first lap, but a very slow 54.15. For point of comparison, 54.15 was exactly the same time Mo Farah ran in the last lap of the 10,000 metres in these championships. With his compatriot Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich on his shoulder, the two acted as a wall at the front, but nobody else looked like they wanted to pass.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Summary
200 more metres went by at the slow pace, finally Kszczot tried to sneak by on the inside, but Rudisha wouldn't let him, accelerating to maintain the lead and continuing to speed up. With world leader and notable kicker Amel Tuka perfectly aligned to pounce, Rudisha just continued to speed up. Only Kszczot was able to follow but the entire field was losing ground. Tuka's speed was not in evidence to the same degree as his previous races this season, instead straining to go around Cheruiyot to get the bronze medal. Tuka's medal was the first for Bosnia and Herzegovina. But it was the old guard 1-2 vs the newcomers.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Summary
How did Rudisha's strategy work against these elite athletes? His last 200 metres was timed at 24.34, a speed most of these athletes are unfamiliar with at the end of a race. Even when a kicker like Tuka, or others with a similar strategy; Symmonds. Borzakovskiy, Robinson or Wottle runs by, they are passing slowing, depleted athletes with a 26+ or high 25 final 200. And most of these competitors are the ones slowing to make that final 200 from a kicker look so impressive. Additionally, with the Kenyan's expert team tactics, Cherulyot's position caused everyone except Kszczot to have to run around Cherulyot at speeds they are not used to. Save Tuka's exceptional finishing speed, the strategy would have gotten Cherulyot a bronze medal.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 28 and 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The overwhelming favorite here had to be the World Record Holder, Olympic Champion and defending Champion, Ashton Eaton. This was Eaton's first decathlon of the year. American Trey Hardee entered as the world leader. Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games champion and returning bronze medalist Damian Warner and returning silver medalist and Götzis winner Michael Schrader were also medal contenders.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
Eaton won the first event, the 100 metres in 10.23, a World Championship Decathlon best and #139 in the world, but slightly off world record pace. Warner, Rico Freimuth, and Felipe Dos Santos were right behind him in that fourth heat. In the long jump, again Eaton led, his 7.88 slightly off world record pace and behind his seasonal best but still equal to the #93 jump in the world. Schrader was the second best jumper of the day but Dos Santos held on to third place.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
Freimuth took over third place by winning the shot put in 15.50, Eaton's 14.52 a foot improvement over world record pace. A 2.10 high jump moved Kurt Felix into third position, while Eaton's 2.01 lost a little ground to the world record.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
In the 400 metres, Eaton set a World Decathlon Best at 45.00 seconds. It was equal to the #34 time in the world. This was Eaton's third World Decathlon Best after the 100 metres and Long Jump he set during his world record in Eugene in 2012. The 400 was also a 1.70 second improvement over his world record pace. Freimuth moved back into third place.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
At the end of the first day, Eaton held a 173-point advantage over Warner, with three Germans, Freimuth, Kai Kazmirek and Schrader bunched behind.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
The second day began with Warner running the 110 metres hurdles in 13.63, equal to the #100 time in the world, with Eaton right with him in 13.69 (#110 in the world) and Freimuth next in the same race. Eaton only gained .01 over record pace.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
Freimuth won the discus with a 50.17, Eaton's 43.34 gained a half a metre on the world record. Eaton's 5.20 pole vault lost 10 cm to the world record, Ilya Shkurenyov used the same height to move up to fourth place. But the world record became a possibility when Eaton's 63.63 season best improved almost 5 meters on his world record pace. Simply a solid 1500 metres could do it.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon
In the 1500, Eaton had a perfect pace set by Larbi Bourrada who was in the process of setting the African Record, tying up at the end he crossed in 4:17.52, 3 seconds slower than Eugene but good enough for a 6-point world record improvement. 350 points behind, Warner improved upon his Canadian Record for silver. Freimuth continued to the bronze, Bouraada got fifth place with his record and in eighth place Felix improved his Grenadian National Record.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, 100 metres
The 100 metres was held on 28 August at 09:00.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, Long jump
The long jump was held on 28 August at 10:05.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, Shot put
The shot put was held on 28 August at 11:55.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, High jump
The high jump was held on 28 August at 16:15.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, 400 metres
The 400 metres was held on 28 August at 20:20.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, 110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles was held on 29 August at 09:00.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, Discus throw
The discus throw was held on 29 August at 10:05.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, Pole vault
The pole vault was held on 29 August at 13:15.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, Javelin throw
The javelin throw was held on 29 August at 17:00.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon, Results, 1500 metres
The 1500 metres was held on 29 August at 20:10.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
Three time defending champion Robert Harting and his exuberant celebrations would not be here due to knee surgery, opening up opportunities for others. Returning silver medalist Piotr Małachowski is the world leader hoping to move up a notch. In the trials, it took Fedrick Dacres one toss to make an automatic qualifier, Małachowski took three attempts to do, but nobody else could get there.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw
In the finals, Małachowski took the lead on the second throw of the competition with a 65.09, the next thrower was Dacres who put out a 64.22. Later in the round, 36-year-old Gerd Kanter threw 64.82 to take over second. In the second round Małachowski solidified his lead by throwing 67.40 which turned out to be the gold medal winning throw. Three throws later Apostolos Parellis threw 64.55 to take over third. In the third round, Philip Milanov popped a 66.90 Belgian National Record to take over second place. There were no other fireworks until the fifth round when Małachowski's Polish teammate,  Robert Urbanek got off a 65.18 to claim the bronze medal.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 65.00 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 23 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
Returning champion and current world leader Paweł Fajdek looked to be the favorite. In the first round it was David Söderberg who took the lead. The second round saw Dilshod Nazarov and Sergej Litvinov get off 77 metre throws to take the top two spots. Then in the third round, Fajdek let out 80.64 and calmly walked out of the ring. Nobody else could get in that range, but Fajdek launched 80.88 on his next throw for the win.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
Nazarov got off a 78.55 in the fifth round to move into second, but that was matched exactly by Wojciech Nowicki on his final throw. With an exact tie for the silver medal, the second best throw became the tiebreaker, Nazarov's 78.06 in the fourth round being superior to Nowicki's third round 77.20.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw
The world championships also incorporated the 2015 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge and Fajdek was the series winner.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 77.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
The men's high jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 28 and 30 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump
In the trials, only nine were able to get over 2.31, so they took perfect to 2.29 to fill out the field. In the final, only seven were able to make 2.29 and at the next height 2.33 they were down to four, Derek Drouin, Bohdan Bondarenko, Zhang Guowei and Mutaz Essa Barshim all on their first attempt. In fact all but Barshim were perfect to that point. Nobody could make 2.36, which left a three way tie for first and Barshim, the odd man out. They did a fourth, jumpoff attempt at 2.36, nobody made it. The next step lowered the bar to 2.34. Drouin cleared it, putting do or die pressure on the others. Neither made it giving Drouin the gold and leaving a tie for silver.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 2.31 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 26 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
Two years earlier, Julius Yego was notable in fourth place, as a Kenyan athlete succeeding in a different event, one unrelated to distance running. His 85.40 national record put him one throw away from a medal. Since then, he has added six more metres to his record and came into this championship as the world leader and favorite. Vítězslav Veselý was back as the defending champion as was silver medalist Tero Pitkämäki. Dmitriy Tarabin, whose final throw took the bronze medal away from Yego and Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott did not make the final this time.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
In the first round of the final Thomas Röhler took the lead with an 86.68. In the second round, Ihab El-Sayed took the lead with his season best 88.99. Meanwhile, Yego fouled his first attempt and his 82.45 only had him in 5th place and highly vulnerable to not making the top 8 after three throws, the requirement to get three more throws. On his third throw, he launched a 92.72.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
Not only did the throw put him in the lead, it was a new African record and the farthest throw in the world in 14 years, since world record holder Jan Železný threw 92.80 to win this championship in 2001, near the end of his top throwing days. It made Yego the third farthest thrower in the history of the contemporary javelin. He didn't need any more throws. In the fourth round Pitkämäki threw 87.64 to move into bronze medal position, which was confirmed when Röhler came up short in his effort to answer.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 83.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
The men's long jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 25 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
In the finals were the defending champion Aleksandr Menkov, Olympic Champion Greg Rutherford and world leader Jeff Henderson, however world #2-4 Zarck Visser, Rushwahl Samaai and Marquis Dendy were unable to get out of the rounds. Henderson was the top qualifier with an 8.36 automatic first attempt trial. Three Chinese jumpers made the final at home.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
The Chinese made a statement in the first round as both Wang Jianan and Gao Xinglong jumped 8.14 to share the lead. Menkov jumped 8.02 to take the third spot while Rutherford, Henderson and four other jumpers were unable to land a legal jump. In the second round, Henderson got a legal jump of 7.95, two feet below his best of the year, but it put him in 5th place for a moment, then Wang improved to 8.18 and Rutherford popped 8.29 to assume the lead. In the third round Henderson again missed the board.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump
Kafétien Gomis made 8.02 after two fouls, Fabrice Lapierre did 8.10 and Li Jinzhe did 8.09, suddenly the world leader was pushed into ninth place and had no more jumps left. In the fourth round Rutherford put an exclamation point on his lead with an 8.41, but only Gomis was able to make a legal jump in the round. Lapierre jumped 8.20 in the fifth round to move into second place and solidified that standing with an 8.24 in the final round. Having been hampered by injury in 2013, the victory completed the full set of outdoor titles for Rutherford, making him the reigning Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Champion.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 8.15 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
The men's marathon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
The name Gebrselassie is familiar in running circles, but this race was won by Haile's sound alike Ghirmay Ghebreslassie from a different country, neighboring Eritrea. Not only was he the youngest winner of a World Championship marathon, he was the first gold medalist for his country ever.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
The early leader was Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, then Daniele Meucci and Ruggero Pertile getting camera time to the half way mark while the favorites including defending champion Stephen Kiprotich stayed slightly off the pace. Ghebreslassie marked the more experienced runners. Tsepo Ramonene made a breakaway at 25 km opening up a 30-second lead. As he watched two Kenyans drop out and other favorites struggle, Ghebreslassie decided to set loose at 34 km. Over the next couple of kilometers, he made up the gap and passed Ramonene with authority. But a couple of kilometers later Yemane Tsegay passed Ghebreslassie.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's marathon
Tsegay's lead only lasted two minutes until Ghebreslassie took the lead for good. Over the final kilometers, he extended his lead to 40 seconds. Running relaxed and fast like an exuberant teenager, he was handed an Eritrean flag as he entered the stadium. He held his flag but kept on running past the finish line until officials were able to tell him he was done. “I’ve never finished in a stadium before.”  Behind him, in comparison, Tsegay, Solomon Mutai and the other runners finished looking as if they had just finished a marathon.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's masters 800 metres
The men's masters 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was a special demonstration event held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's masters 800 metres
From the gun WMA M55 Champion Anselm Lebourne, the oldest athlete in the field, seemed to go out slightly faster than everybody else, but a last moment burst at the break line put home town favorite Chunsheng Wang into the early lead. By the end of the straightaway, he was  overtaken by new M50 1500 metres world record holder David Heath. Through the turn Michael Sherar was able to work his way around Wang and Lebourne tried to follow, but tripped and spent several strides trying to regain his balance.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's masters 800 metres
Wang entered the home stretch a bit wide giving Lebourne an opening to squeeze through. Heath hit the bell at 59.73 two seconds up, with Lebourne just passing Sherar to take over second place. 1988 Olympian Paul Osland led the rest of the field past Wang along the back stretch while Lebourne separated from pack now more than 20 metres behind Heath who hit 600 metres at 1:28.57. Onto the home stretch, Heath looked powerful way ahead of the field. Lebourne began to struggle, ten metres out from the finish line, Gunnar Rune Durén went by, then Sherar dipped by a step before the finish line for bronze.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's masters 800 metres
Lebourne's time of 2:03.75 fully automatic time is technically better than Stan Immelmann's hand timed 2:03.7 M55 world record from January 2001. Lebrun ran 2:02.16, a significantly faster time, indoors in February. As of December 2015, WMA has not ratified Lebourne for the world record, USATF ratified his 2:04.79 performance in Lyon as the American record.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 24 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, Competition
World record holder and world leader Renaud Lavillenie set his opening height at 5.80, after most of the field had already attempted two heights. He cleared it with one foot to spare on his first attempt. It is believed to be the highest opening height ever attempted. At the end of that round, only six jumpers remained and three others, Shawnacy Barber, Piotr Lisek and 2011 winner Paweł Wojciechowski also had no misses. Returning champion Raphael Holzdeppe also was one of the six to clear 5.80, including several misses.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, Competition
At the next height, 5.90, Lavillenie cleared the bar easily, but in the wrong position. Each time he knocked it off on his way down. Barber, the National High School Record holder and NCAA Champion from the University of Akron, cleared on his first attempt. On his last attempt Holzdeppe cleared 5.90 to stay in the competition, leaving a three-way tie for the bronze medal between Wojciechowski, Lisek, and Lavillenie.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, Competition
Barber and Holzdeppe competed for the gold medal at a height of 6.00; both athletes failed to clear it on all three attempts, neither really getting off a serious attempt. Barber's initial success at 5.90 in the previous round gave him the gold medal over Holzdeppe.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 5.70 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
The men's shot put at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put
As the best thrower in a decade, Joe Kovacs looked to be the favorite, though David Storl was the two-time defending champion. With his first throw Kovacs took the lead at 21.23. Storl raised the lead to 21.46 on his second throw. But the surprise leader at the end of the third round was O'Dayne Richards equalling his Jamaican National Record from the Pan American Games at 21.69. In the fourth round, Tomas Walsh threw his Continental Record 21.58 to take the second position. A few throws later, Kovacs moved into second place with his 21.67 fourth throw. The medals were settled in the fifth round when Kovacs threw the 21.93 winner, followed immediately by Storl throwing his 21.74 silver medal winner.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 20.65 m (Q) or at least best 12 performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 27 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
The early season meet at Doha gave an indication that this would be an exciting year in the triple jump. Pedro Pablo Pichardo, who would return here as the previous silver medalist jumped 18.06 to become the #3 jumper in history. In that same meet, Olympic Champion Christian Taylor was only 2 cm behind to equal the previous #3, who was the defending world champion Teddy Tamgho. Tamgho was also in Doha, finishing in third behind the fireworks, but Tamgho was coming off a 1-year drug suspension for missing multiple tests.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
Following that meet, two weeks later Pichardo improved his world lead to 18.08 at home in Havana and then in early July, Taylor improved to 18.06 and beat Pichardo in Lausanne. It was destined that the World Championships would settle this battle. Tamgho did not return to defend the championship in Beijing.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
In the qualification round, only Marian Oprea made an automatic qualifier on his first attempt, it took Taylor two and Pichardo three but there was no doubt either would make the final. In the final Pichardo took the first round lead with 17.52, Taylor made 17.49 on his second attempt and both jumped exactly 17.60 in the third round. Taylor took the lead in the fourth round with 17.68. Omar Craddock moved into third place with a 17.37.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump
It was the final attempt that settled the score. First Nelson Évora moved into the bronze medal with a 17.52. Then Taylor launched an 18.21, the second best jump in history only behind the world record of Jonathan Edwards set while winning the World Championship 20 years earlier. It was then up to Pichardo to answer and his 17.73 solidified his hold on the silver medal. Taylor's jump took the 19 year old North American Continental Record and American Record from Kenny Harrison set at the 1996 Olympics, the previous number 2 jumper in history.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres, Summary
The reigning champion from 2013 Tirunesh Dibaba was absent from the competition, having decided to take a career break to start a family.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres, Summary
Coming into the bell, the lead pack, led by Molly Huddle had dwindled to eight, with Belaynesh Oljira and Susan Kuijken trying to hold on. The field adjusted for the final kick through the turn, Gelete Burka the first to pounce as soon as they reached the back stretch. Betsy Saina fell off the back but the rest stayed in close order drill. It took Vivian Cheruiyot another 50 metres to get pas Huddle then she quickly moved to Burka's shoulder, literally bumping shoulders a couple of times as they entered the turn.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres, Summary
Cheruiyot moved past Burka who then followed Cheruiyot through the turn repositioning herself for a final kick coming off the turn. Burka made her move, with 100 meters to go Cheruiyot looked directly into Burka's eyes and the battle was on. For the next 50 meters they raced with Cheruiyot always maintaining the edge. Then it was clear Burka would not get there and the gap opened as Burka struggled. Huddle continued chasing, losing ground to the leaders. Behind her Emily Infeld was sprinting and moved past a celebrating Huddle just one meter before the finish line.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres, Summary
The top 9 runners were from just three countries. Had this been scored by cross country rules, it would be USA 13 (1:35:13.30), Kenya 14 (1:35:17.08), Ethiopia 18 (1:35:24.51). Vivian Cheruiyot returns to top the podium after winning in 2011 and not attempting to defend the title in 2013.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23 and 24 August. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce entered the competition as the defending champion and the world leading athlete that season with a time of 10.74 seconds.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Summary
The semi-finals eliminated the second fastest woman in 2015, English Gardner, otherwise it was mostly the expected fastest athletes from the world list. The surprise was Dafne Schippers improving her own national record by almost a tenth of a second to 10.83 while winning the third semi-final. Previous to that, Schippers had one significant win in London at the end of July, a race that only included one other finalist, Blessing Okagbare, and had been soundly defeated by Fraser-Pryce, Gardner and Okagbare in Paris in early June. Schippers time won her a center lane position, towering next to Fraser-Pryce in the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Summary
In the final, the gun went off and as expected Fraser-Pryce, the "pocket rocket" was out in front, her first three steps clearly faster than the field. While Schippers had the second best reaction time of the field, she appeared to be slightly behind Natasha Morrison and Michelle-Lee Ahye with veteran Veronica Campbell-Brown out in second place behind her teammate. But as top end speed was reached, Schippers and Tori Bowie behind her began eating into the lead with every stride.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Summary
She was unable to catch Fraser-Pryce who held her arms up in victory as she crossed the line, running out of time Schippers made a desperate early lean at the finish while Bowie over strided her last few steps also in desperation in third. Each of the first 5 were clearly separated by .05 of a second. Schippers 10.81 in second place improved upon her national record for the second time in the same day.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Heats
Wind:Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -1.3 m/s, Heat 3: -1.2 m/s  Heat 4: +2.3 m/s, Heat 5: -1.6 m/s, Heat 6: +1.5 m/s, Heat 7: -0.5 m/s


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: Best 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 28 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Summary
Brianna Rollins of the United States entered the competition as the defending champion. Coming into this meet, on paper, this was an American event as eight of the top ten athletes in the world were Americans, but even with the returning champion, only four could compete here. The returning silver medalist, reigning Olympic Champion and two-time winner Sally Pearson could not return due to a tragic accident in Rome, so the best the world could offer was returning bronze medalist Tiffany Porter. But the hurdles require execution.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Summary
Two of the Americans disappeared in the semi-finals, Kendra Harrison by false start, 2008 Olympic Champion Dawn Harper-Nelson falling flat at the second hurdle. Making the finals were Rollins, after a tight battle with Andrea Ivančević and world #1 Sharika Nelvis, along with Porter and Jamaica's version of the Williams sisters, Danielle and Shermaine. Danielle along with Alina Talay and Cindy Roleder had to run personal bests just to make it into the finals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Summary
In the final, Rollins was clearly the first to the first hurdle, however when she got to the first hurdle she didn't lift her lead leg high enough to clear it instead firmly hitting it with her foot and riding it down. That slight delay gave Danielle the narrow lead, chased by Porter and Nelvis. Porter started to move ahead and Rollins started to come back. At the ninth hurdle, Porter began to lose her balance putting Williams back in the lead.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Summary
Bracketing the field, Talay in lane 2 and Roleder in lane 8 were running error free races away from the fireworks in the middle of the track. By the sixth hurdle, Talay was almost even with Rollins, while Roleder, last over the first hurdle, was steadily gaining. Coming over the final barrier, Roleder clearly took it the smoothest and had the strongest run to the finish. A perfectly timed lean almost caught Williams. In contrast, the off balance Porter lunged at Rollins way too early and tumbled to the track with a full somersault, while Talay efficiently out leaned Rollins for bronze. It was again a significant personal best for all three medalists with Talay's being a new National Record.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Wind: Heat 1: -1.8 m/s, Heat 2: -1.2 m/s, Heat 3: -1.0 m/s, Heat 4: -0.4 m/s, Heat 5: -1.1 m/s.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Wind: Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.4 m/s, Heat 3: -0.8 m/s


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22, 23 and 25 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Summary
Abeba Aregawi of Sweden entered as the defending champion, although her preparations that year were hampered by injury. In contrast, the world-leading athlete that season Genzebe Dibaba had broken the long-standing world record for the event the previous month.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Summary
The semi-finals were definitely a contrast with the second semi run eight seconds faster than the first, still no favorites were left behind. From the gun in the final, the field seemed to drop back in unison, leaving Americans Shannon Rowbury and Jennifer Simpson out front. With no guidance, the two jogged through a 1:17.06 first lap. As the slow pace continued, the overwhelming favorite Dibaba jogged up to the outside of Simpson's shoulder.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Summary
With just over 2 laps to go, Dibaba took the lead and turned it into an 800-meter race, her first 100 metres of acceleration bringing the second lap time down to 68.58. Simpson tried to chase but Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon, Aregawi and Dawit Seyaum overtook her chasing Dibaba. Dibaba's penultimate lap was 57.9 with Sifan Hassan moving forward, with Chepngetich, then Seyaum continuing to chase and Aregawi falling back. Hassan passed Chepngetich through the final turn and the battle became for the silver medal. With Dibaba pulling away, Hassan couldn't hold her speed.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Summary
Drifting to the outside of the lane, she gave space for Chepngetich to move through back into second place. Dibaba slowed as she celebrated crossing the finish line arms raised above her head, still her final 800 metres was 1:57.3, only Eunice Sum had run an 800 metres race that fast in 2015. Even Hassan, who was at the back of the pack when the kick started ran faster than any other woman had run an 800 in 2015 by running a 1:57.6.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 6 (Q) and next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk
The women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 28 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk, Summary
The defending champion Elena Lashmanova would not be here, while she serves her drug suspension. In fact the entire Russian team did not compete here amid the drug scandal surrounding their coach Viktor Chegin. It looked like world record holder, world leader Liu Hong, walking on home soil was the prohibitive favorite. Liu's one complication was her teammate Xiuzhi Lu. Like in the men's race, the two Chinese walkers took off hard from the start, only Anežka Drahotová tried to go with them.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk, Summary
That lasted about 4 km, from that point on the two walkers were out on their own almost tied by a string, swapping the lead occasionally though Lu was setting the pace the majority of the time. They hit 5K in 22:24; 10K in 44:19 (21:55 split) with a 30-second lead and 15K in 1:06:24 (22:05 split). The chase pack was Lyudmyla Olyanovska,  Elisa Rigaudo, Eleonora Giorgi and Érica de Sena. de Sena was the first to fall off pace around 12K, both of the Italians were later asked to leave the course.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk, Summary
Between 10 and 15K the lead actually shrunk to 20 seconds, but the closing 5K in 21:22 settled it for everyone but the two Chinese walkers. They battled neck and neck until just about the time they re-entered the stadium, when Lu seemed to concede to Liu and walked the remainder on the track in her footsteps. With the domestic crowd going crazy, Lu crossed the finish line virtually in Liu's shadow, the separation .26 of a second for the closest finish for a race walk in World Championships history.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 20 kilometres walk, Summary
Because it is a road course, the official times are only accurate to one second so both athlete's times round to the same time. Olyanovska continued to hold on, finishing just 28 seconds back for bronze. The rest of the field finished more than 1:15 behind her. It was the first gold medal for the home team at these championships.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics is scheduled to be held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 28 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Summary
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica entered the competition as defending champion but after winning the 100 metres, decided against running here. Reigning Olympic champion, Allyson Felix won a bye to compete by virtue of winning the 2014 IAAF Diamond League, but passed in order to focus on the 400 metres which would hold its final less than an hour before the semi-final round. 2013 silver medalist Murielle Ahouré did not return, and 2013 bronze medalist Blessing Okagbare did not start in the heats.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Summary
In the finals, two time Olympic Champion and 2011 World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown relegated to lane 2 after finishing 7th in the semis, was the leader out of the blocks with Dina Asher-Smith and Jeneba Tarmoh also getting good starts. Elaine Thompson was last out of the blocks but rocketed around the turn to be the second to hit the straightaway behind "VCB." Candyce McGrone was about even with Asher-Smith and Dafne Schippers behind them with less than 90 metres to the finish.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Summary
Thompson continued her speed to the front as Schippers let out her long strides to eat up territory. McGrone and Campbell-Brown were in the battle for bronze, Schippers looking too far back to catch Thompson but gaining with every stride. And Schippers caught her with 5 metres to spare, continuing on to the win. Campbell-Brown held off McGrone for bronze.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Summary
Schippers time of 21.63 made her the #3 performer of all time, Thompson at 21.66 became #5. Neither of them had been on the list prior to this race. It was a .40 improvement of her personal best for Schippers and a .44 improvement for Thompson. Schippers took down Marita Koch's 36-year-old, drug tainted European record and broke the  28 year old Championship Record held by East Germany's Silke Gladisch Moeller. Both runners were faster than Allyson Felix or Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have ever run. Dina Asher-Smith's 22.07 in fifth place became the new British record and the fastest performance by a teenager, though cannot surpass Felix's junior world record because Asher Smith would turn 20 before the end of the calendar year.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 3 (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 26 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
The reigning champion from 2013 Milcah Chemos Cheywa was absent from the competition due to a back injury.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
This championship race had a preview of sorts at the 2015 Herculis meet in Monaco where most of the finalists raced to a different order. That race was won by Habiba Ghribi in the world leading time. This final was going to be slower and tactical, everybody was watching each other. A lap into the race, Lalita Babar broke away, building up a 10 to 15 meter gap on the pack. She was treated as a breakaway in a bicycle racing, but the peloton didn't give chase.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
With 2 laps to go, the pack led by Emma Coburn swallowed up the lead and went past. For the next lap, the pack was content to let Coburn lead, Ghribi coming up to her shoulder and the rest going sometimes five abreast over the barriers. At the bell, Ghribi took the lead, Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi and Coburn battling down the backstretch. Going into the final water jump Jepkemoi finally passed Coburn, with Gesa Felicitas Krause and Sofia Assefa forming a tight pack of five to sprint for the medals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Summary
As Krause pressed Ghribi from the inside, Jepkemoi had to swing wide out to lane two to find some running room. Krause took the lead over the final barrier as Ghribi stuttered. Ghribi was stronger to take the lead back from Krause but Jepkemoi ran past both of them on the outside and on to victory.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary
It is a rare chance for all the best athletes in a country to get together to run a relay, it takes a major championship. In the heats, Canada, the Netherlands and Trinidad and Tobago set National Records to get to the finals, T&T did so while resting anchor runner Semoy Hackett for the finals. Jamaica rested two, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Elaine Thompson, but not their superstar Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, in order to make six girls eligible for medals. Jamaica was the number one qualifier. USA ran their A team, to assure qualification but not resting their workhorse Allyson Felix even though Tori Bowie, Dezerea Bryant and Kaylin Whitney had been listed as their entries, unlisted Jasmine Todd anchored.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary
In the finals Jamaica was out early with Campbell-Brown and a quick handoff to Natasha Morrison. Kseniya Ryzhova left too early and Russia never made a handoff, while USA looked to proportionally hold their own against the stagger through the backstretch with Felix. Trinidad and Tobago was also in position, while Dafne Schippers ran past Canada's Kimberly Hyacinthe on the outside. Jamaica continued to build their lead with Elaine Thompson through the tour, handing off smoothly to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in first place, who further extended their lead.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary
USA was a clear second and Trinidad and Tobago clearly third, each with enough separation that places would not change to the finish. Behind them, the Netherlands was just slightly ahead of the British and German teams. Desiree Henry ran away from the others and was closing on Hackett, while the Dutch team's illegal handover earned them a disqualification.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Summary
The Jamaican team set a new National Record and the Championship Record, Trinidad and Tobago improved theirs from earlier in the day and the British team set their National Record. In all, five teams set their National Record.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 and 30 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
The Jamaican team announced their intention to win this race early in the championships by placing all four of their relay team members in the top six of the final of the 400 metres. The American squad had two women in that same race, one of them the winner Allyson Felix. Their ace in the hole was having the top two in the world, prior to the American championships, fail to make the individual event but were available for the relay.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
Both Olympic Champion Sanya Richards-Ross and World Indoor Champion Francena McCorory demonstrated their occasional ability to run excellent 350 meter races in that meet, their flailing last 50 metres is why they didn't qualify for the individual race. All the other teams ran their season best just to make the finals, Bahamas and Japan set National Records and still failed to qualify.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
In the final, it was a reminder of 2008 on this same track as Richards-Ross was out aggressively, making up the stagger on Christine Ohuruogu and when she hit the home stretch, she was out of gas. Meanwhile, to their outside, Christine Day was running smoothly to give Jamaica a big lead, Shericka Jackson. Natasha Hastings ran a quick turn to barely hold off Anyika Onuora at the break. Jackson started her leg conservatively, so the gap looked manageable, until she started cranking and the lead gap started growing.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
Jamaica had an almost two second lead when Jackson handed off to Stephenie Ann McPherson, Hastings helped the USA hold off the British team before handing off to the American's star, Felix. The gap looked impossible at the beginning but Felix closed it down. It took Felix 350 metres to catch McPherson, but it was a steady race throughout and when Felix got there she just continued on by, handing off to world #3 Francena McCorory with the lead. Jamaica had Novlene Williams-Mills on the anchor leg, starting 2 metres down.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
Down the backstretch and into the final turn, McCorory held the same gap on Williams-Mills, then through the turn the gap started to widen. Onto the home stretch, Williams-Mills moved out to lane 2 to look for running room. 70 metres before the finish, McCorory's arm movement got bigger but her legs got noticeably slower. Williams-Mills cruised on by a helpless McCorory with powerful sprint form across the line for gold. Well behind the leaders, the British team was challenged by Nigeria until Patience Okon George met with a similar collapse. While Seren Bundy-Davies carried the British home for bronze, George was overtaken at the line by Russia's Kseniya Aksyonova.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Summary
Felix's remarkable leg was timed at 47.72, the fastest of her already brilliant history in that category and the third fastest women's relay leg ever measured, just .02 off the fastest measured electronically.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advance to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24, 25 and 27 August. Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain entered the competition as the defending champion.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Summary
Allyson Felix is known as a 200 metres specialist, but two years earlier her string of 200 meter championships was snapped along with her hamstring in the final. Based on winning the 2014 Diamond League, Felix was qualified to enter the 200 metres here but chose to forgo that opportunity to put all her eggs in this basket. This was her bid to win the one title she didn't have under her belt, the same event she narrowly lost to Amantle Montsho of Botswana four years prior at 2011 IAAF World Championships. With world leader Francena McCorory unable to qualify to run here at the American Championships, Felix was the name to beat. The defending champion Christine Ohuruogu, known for her late rush, also made the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Summary
With high expectations, Felix took off strongly running her first 200 metres in the dominant fashion one would expect of a 200 metres specialist. She kept building on her lead coming off the final turn several steps ahead of Shericka Jackson the next out of the turn. The question was if she would have the strength to finish, or would her legs turn to jello as happened to Sanya Richards-Ross with the same kind of aggressive start on this same track seven years earlier. The answer was no. While Felix didn't advance her lead, she kept her margin on Jackson for a clear win. Shaunae Miller made a powerful rush to the finish, passing Jackson for the silver and gaining on Felix down the home stretch. Jackson beat three other Jamaican teammates for the bronze.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 23, 24 and 26 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
Zuzana Hejnová of the Czech Republic entered the competition as the defending champion.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
Through these championships Cassandra Tate had been the #1 qualifier in the heats and #2 in the semi-finals, earning her a center lane position next to #1 qualifier, the defending champion Hejnová. The world leader coming into the event was World Junior Champion Shamier Little. While Little had been almost mechanical in winning the NCAA Championships, the US Championships and the Pan American Games over a long season, in this championship she struggled through the rounds, the slowest qualifier in both. Her slow time in the semi relegated her to the inside lane, lane 2 on Beijing's 9 lane track.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Summary
In the finals, those were the players, with Hejnová in a clear lead by the final turn, with Little and Tate chasing. Hejnová just continued to build her lead unchallenged to the finish, as Little struggled over hurdle 8, stretching to 9 and again awkward at 10. Still Little's strength was able to beat Tate to the line for silver. Sara Petersen made a late rush at Tate coming into the 10th hurdle, but Tate carried her momentum better into the finish to claim bronze.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Heats
Qualification: Best 4 (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: Best 2 (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the next round.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres
The women's 5000 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 30 August. The reigning champion from 2013 Meseret Defar was absent from the competition, having not yet returned from a career break to start a family.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Summary
From the gun in the final, the two Japanese runner Misaki Onishi then Ayuko Suzuki took the pace out at a serious level, the women running the same pace as the pedestrian men's race through the first 2,000. After her 1500 metres win and world record, all eyes were clearly on Genzebe Dibaba. On the first lap Dibaba went to the back of the pack. After a lap she decided to move in behind the Japanese runners. Instantly she was marked by world leader Almaz Ayana.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Summary
Three laps into the race, it was a string of African runners behind the Japanese, with a gap back to all the other non-Africans. From the pace of just under 74 seconds a lap, Ayana then upped the pace, followed immediately by Dibaba and the Kenyan team running as a group led by returning silver medalist Mercy Cherono. Laps started getting quicker, 68, 67, the field stringing out 65, 64 first only Dibaba was able to follow Ayana, then she was broken, Ayana out into an insurmountable lead with three laps to go and still accelerating.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Summary
More than a hundred metres behind, Senbere Teferi was battling the last of the Kenyans, Viola Kibiwot for the bronze medal position. Ayana slowed a little over the last two laps, the pace falling back to 67 seconds but the damage was done and the race was decided. Ayana pushed home in 14:26.83 to break Genzebe's sister Tirunesh Dibaba's Championship Record. Well behind, Genzebe was content to just finish the race in silver medal position, but the battle for bronze was accelerating. Onto the home stretch, Teferi put her best move on Kibiwot and was sprinting home, but in the process she passed the slowing Dibaba. Dibaba finally noticed Teferi passing and turned into sprinting making for a close finish but Teferi had the edge and took the silver medal.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Summary
It was a sweep for Ethiopia but not from a tactical situation like many Kenyan team members try to run. These were three rivals who in the process of beating each other, beat the rest of the world. Behind them, the straightaway was empty, it took 15 more seconds for the next Kenyan runner to arrive.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 5000 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Summary
Eunice Jepkoech Sum of Kenya entered the competition as the defending champion and also as the world-leading athlete for the season with her time of 1:56.99 minutes.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Summary
The third semi-final was the fastest, with Melissa Bishop battling Maryna Arzamasava to the line, leaving defending champion and world #1 Eunice Jepkoech Sum as a time qualifier. Bishop's winning 1:57.52 became the new Canadian National Record.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Summary
In the final it was the same three players, Arzamasava holding the lead through the final turn, with Sum looking for a way to run around her. With Sum moving to the outside, Arzamasava drifted out, opening a gap on the inside which Bishop moved in to occupy. It was three abreast down the home stretch but Arzamasava never relinquished the lead, Bishop unable to get ahead on the inside and Sum just slightly behind them both.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 25 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
In 2015, Denia Caballero found five extra metres in her throws to become the number one ranked thrower. She had no intention of making a dramatic competition. On her first throw, the sixth throw of qualifying she launched the best throw of the preliminary round. Then in the finals, on her first effort only four throws into the competition she threw 69.28. Only one other girl in Beijing had ever thrown a discus that far, she was the defending champion Sandra Perković.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
So it was up to the rest of the field to do something spectacular or settle for other medals. Three throws later Nadine Müller threw 65.53 to take over second place. After fouling her first attempt, Perković threw 65.35 to move into third place. Gia Lewis-Smallwood was the only other athlete to reach the low 69's was not having a 69 kind of day, instead muddled at the back of the field. On her final throw Perković threw 67.39 to finally move into silver medal position. Yaime Pérez tried to make it interesting but her 65.46 final attempt missed a medal.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 63.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw
The women's hammer throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 27 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw
The world championships also incorporated the 2015 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge and Anita Włodarczyk was the series winner and world champion.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Competition
2015 was Anita Włodarczyk's year. Already the world record holder, she threw the ball out to 81.08 less than four weeks before the championships to become the first woman to throw beyond 80 metres. Włodarczyk is the returning silver medalist and was the 2009 champion. The two-time defending champion and Olympic Champion Tatyana Lysenko, the number 3 thrower in history, did not return. No Russian athletes competed in this event. Zhang Wenxiu was the home favorite who has finished just behind Włodarczyk at every major championship (except 2011) since the Olympics were here seven years earlier.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Competition
The finals began with Włodarczyk throwing 74.40 to take the early lead in the first round. Alexandra Tavernier was close with a 74.02. In the second round, Włodarczyk threw 78.52, a distance which only three other women had ever achieved. One of those three was Betty Heidler but her 72.56 in the second round would prove to be her best effort of the day. At the end of the round Zhang threw 75.92 to move into second place. On her third throw, Włodarczyk threw 80.27, a distance only she has achieved. It was the second best throw in history.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Competition
A month earlier it would have been a world record, at this meet it was only her second best throw of the day as her fourth round 80.85 set the  Championship Record with a new second best throw in history. Moments before, Zhang threw her best of the day, 76.33 to solidify her hold on silver. Tavernier's first round throw held on for third, though Sophie Hitchon made a run at it with her British National Record 73.86 on her final toss.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 72.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 23 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Summary
Hanna Kasyanova (née Melnychenko) of Ukraine entered the competition as defending champion, although the favourite for the competition was the silver medalist of 2013 World Championships Brianne Theisen-Eaton who is the world leader by a margin of more than 250 points. Other potential winners and medalists were 2009 World and 2012 Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, returning from giving birth to her first child, 2015 European pentathlon champion and 2014 world number one Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Nadine Broersen, Carolin Schäfer, Barbara Nwaba, Nadine Visser and Nafissatou Thiam.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Summary
The returning champion Kasyanova did not start. The American champion Nwaba fell out of contention from the gun of the first race, misstepping the first hurdle and falling at the next. Meanwhile, Olympic champion Ennis-Hill made it clear she was intending to take this championship. Visser started strongly with two personal bests, her 12.81 hurdles just missing the national record that is almost 6 years older than she is. Johnson-Thompson joined her hyphenated British teammate in the medal hunt with a 1.89 high jump and a 200 metres win and personal bests in the other two events. Lurking in fourth place after the first day was returning silver medalist and world leader Theisen-Eaton who had been struggling through her last couple of events.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Summary
As the second day began, Theisen-Eaton excelled in the long jump while Johnson-Thompson was unable to land a legal jump, taking her out of the hunt and reshuffling the top athletes. Also joining the medal hunt was the top long jumper of the day, Claudia Rath. Anastasiya Mokhnyuk moved into the third-place position while Ennis-Hill's lead was over a hundred points. The javelin throw is not a strong event for any of the jumpers allowing strong throwers Laura Ikauniece-Admidiņa and the other Dutch Nadine Broersen to move up into the top four.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Summary
Theisen-Eaton injured her groin during the javelin but made it to the start line of the final event intending to run for a medal. Theisen-Eaton ran hard at the front of the final group, chased only by Ennis-Hill, the pair clearly outdistancing the rest of the leader group. But Ennis-Hill was not just satisfied by winning on points, she stamped an exclamation point on the win by marking Theisen-Eaton to the final straight then sprinting past. Ikauniece-Admidiņa held on to third place with her Latvian National Record while Boersen and Mokhnyuk suffered several seconds further back.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, 100 metres hurdles
The 100 metres hurdles was held on 22 August at 09:00.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, High jump
The high jump was started on 22 August at 10:20.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, Shot put
The shot put was held on 22 August at 18:30.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, 200 metres
The 200 metres were held on 22 August at 20:15.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, 200 metres
Wind:Heat 1: +0.4, Heat 2: −1.3, Heat 3: +0.8, Heat 4: +0.2 m/s.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, Long jump
The long jump was started on 23 August at 09:00.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, Javelin throw
The javelin throw was started on 23 August at 10:50.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon, Results, 800 metres
The 800 metres were held on 23 August at 19:40.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
The women's high jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 29 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
It took 1.92 to make the finals, and eight competitors made it cleanly. In the finals, only eight cleared 1.92; Ana Šimić, Doreen Amata, and Levern Spencer, who had jumped it in qualification, missed three times. 1.95 lost Jeanelle Scheper and Eleanor Patterson, but the remaining six all made it through three heights to 1.99. Two-time champion Blanka Vlašić looked like her dominant self from six years earlier with a large clearance at 2.01, but she had one failure at 1.92.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
Mariya Kuchina, whose best achievement had been a tie for the World Indoor Championship, cleared it next as a personal best, and she was still clean. The 2012 Olympic champion Anna Chicherova cleared it on her second attempt. Kamila Lićwinko (the other half of that tie), returning bronze medalist Ruth Beitia, and Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch were unable to make 2.01, so the medals were settled. The bar went up to 2.03, but nobody could make it, so the results were decided by the count back. Chicherova needed two attempts at the winning height, so she finished third. Of the two who made it their first time, that mistake earlier in the competition gave Vlašić another silver medal (her fourth in major competition), while Kuchina's perfect series was rewarded with the gold medal.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 1.94 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The women's javelin throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 28 and 30 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
There were eight automatic qualifiers out of the first round. With the best mark qualifiers, the German team was able to get four into the finals including defending champion Christina Obergföll, the home team was able to get two when Lü Huihui got in with the tenth qualifier. World leader Sunette Viljoen also could not make the automatic but got into the finals while the world record holder Barbora Špotáková did get an automatic.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
The partisan locals were overjoyed when Lü took over the lead with a 63.80 and three throws later Li Lingwei improved upon that with a 64.10, putting the home team in first and second place. That lead held through the second round as closest anybody could come was Viljoen at 63.09 to take third place. Obergföl started the third round with a new leader 64.61, but Lü came back with an answer of 64.72 which held the lead until the next thrower Katharina Molitor threw it 2 cm further.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
Špotáková barely made 60 and didn't get to make the last three throws. In the fourth round, Viljoen threw 65.79 to move into the lead and as the fifth round was ending, Lü uncorked a 66.13 to set a new Asian Record and take the lead to a furious ovation. That was the status going into the last throw of the competition. Molitor had seen her leading position drop to third place over the last 2 rounds but found the answer, a 67.69 to let the air out of the crowd.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 63.50 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
The women's long jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 27 and 28 August. Defending champion Brittney Reese returned but was unable to get out of the qualification round. Katarina Johnson-Thompson could have used her 6.79 automatic qualifier in her heptathlon earlier in the week, 6.79 meters further than she received credit for.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
In the first round of the final, Christabel Nettey took the early lead with a 6.95. Janay DeLoach Soukup pulled into second with a 6,67 while most of the field struggled to find the board. Ivana Španović then popped 7.01 for a new Serbian National Record. World #1 Tianna Bartoletta put out a 6.95 in the second round to almost pull even with Nettey. Bartoletta's third round 6.87 narrowly broke the tie to briefly put her into second place. On the last jump of the third round Shara Proctor jumped 7.07 for a new British Record and the lead. Nobody made any improvements in the fourth and fifth rounds. On her final attempt, Bartoletta leaped a world leading 7.14 to take the lead. Španović then duplicated her 7.01 but no improvement. When Proctor fouled her final attempt, the medals were settled.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Records
Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 6.75 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon
The women's marathon at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 30 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
Under overcast skies  the race quickly formed two large packs of about 20 runners. For the next 25K, the lead pack remained about the same size with some runners bridging the gap in time for others to fall off the pace. Between 25K and 30K, the pack dropped to a dozen runners. Just after 31K, defending champion Edna Kiplagat accelerated. In the next 4K, the lead pack cut in half, the remaining athletes were three Kenyans, two Ethiopians and Eunice Kirwa wearing a Bahrain uniform, from Kenya.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
London Marathon champion Tigist Tufa was the first to fall back, then Kiplagat began to lose contact. But the four person pack remained tougher into the stadium. Four athletes to sprint it out on the track for three medals after running 26 miles. Mare Dibaba (no relation to the other famous Dibaba sisters) led the group toward the tunnel. As they started to speed up, Jemima Sumgong did not have another gear.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
Kirwa was perfectly positioned to strike but instead Helah Kiprop launched the attack from the back after looking like she was ready to drop off, long striding behind the diminutive Dibaba. 60 metres before the finish they were almost even, but Dibaba would not give that last few inches. Then Dibaba sped away to cross the line with almost 7 metres gap. The times had a second between first and second, a four-second gap amongst the medalists and a 7-second gap back to fourth place. On every count, the closest Marathon finish in World Championship history.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon, Summary
It was four Kenyan born athletes in places 2–5, Ethiopia and Japan placed three each in the top 14 places.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's masters 400 metres
The women's masters 400 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was a special demonstration event held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August. All the participants are in the W50 division (older than age 50).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's masters 400 metres
Elizabeth Gail Wilson was the early leader, aggressively running the final turn ahead of Renee Henderson onto the home stretch. Henderson looked spent and started to drop back. Sarah Louise Read Cayton was not too far behind Wilson and moved into another gear that Wilson was unable to match. Clayton continued on to gold. From far back, Virginia Corinne Mitchell matched her British teammate's speed on the straight, sprinting past Henderson and Wilson for a distant, but solid silver.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
The women's pole vault at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 26 August. 2013 Champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva did not defend her title having given birth to her first child in 2014.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
Fourteen athletes qualified at 4.55, but two were unable to get over the opening height of 4.50 in the finals. Minna Nikkanen set her National Record at 4.60, but there were still seven in at 4.70, five of them with clean rounds to that point making for a five-way tie including Angelica Bengtsson's National Record and returning silver medalist Jenn Suhr, who had confidently passed to 4.60. 4.80 decided the medalists with Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou taking it on the first attempt to take over the lead.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
2011 champion Fabiana Murer took it on her second attempt and was ahead of Yarisley Silva who had struggled earlier at 4.70. Both Silva and Murer made 4.85 on their first attempt, giving Murer the lead. Murer also again equalled her own South American record. Kyriakopoulou missed at what would have been her National Record. Having no strategic advantage to clearing it with one miss, she passed to 4.90. Everybody missed their first two attempts at 4.90, making Kyriakopoulou the bronze medalist. On her final attempt, Silva made it, to leap past Murer into gold medal position.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault
Murer was unable to answer on her final attempt and had to settle for silver. Murer was pleased to win a medal in Beijing seven years after the 2008 Olympics, where she underperformed following her poles being misplaced by the organization, and became optimistic for the 2016 Summer Olympics at her own Brazil, when she will have to set a masters world record to be in the medal hunt.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault, Records
Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 4.60 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
The women's shot put at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
The championship suffered a little with the failure of Valerie Adams to return to defend her 2013 title following surgery over the winter. In the run-up to these championships Adams suffered the end of her 57 event winning streak a month earlier.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
In the finals, home favorite Gong Lijiao assumed the early lead with a 20.30 first put. On the third throw, Christina Schwanitz made 20.37 to take the lead. Gong had no answer and the rest of the field was too far behind, led by Michelle Carter's 19.76. Anita Márton threw a fourth round 19.48m national record to take fourth.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 18.30 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The women's triple jump at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 22 and 24 August.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
The returning champion Caterine Ibargüen looked like the favorite, the most consistent jumper year round. The world leader was the returning silver medalist Ekaterina Koneva and even her world leading jump lost the competition to a wind aided jump by Ibargüen. The Olympic Champion Olga Rypakova had beaten Ibargüen both in the Olympics and at the 2011 World Championships, but not in the last three years.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
Gabriela Petrova took the early lead with her first jump 14.52. Former Ukrainian Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko made a big improvement to her own National Record of her new country Israel with a 14.78. Her lead lasted through two jumpers before Ibargüen took the lead with her second round 14.80. That wasn't even her best jump of the day, but it was enough to beat any other athlete in the competition. In the fourth round Ibargüen jumped 14.90 for the winner. Rypakova moved into third position with a 14.59 in the fourth round. Petrova answered with a 14.66 on her fifth attempt.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
Rypakova came back on her final attempt, her 14.77 tickled Knyazyeva-Minenko's second place mark but was a cm short putting her in the bronze medal after Petrova was unable to answer a second time. All of the first five performers had season bests. Knyazyeva-Minenko's medal was the first World Championship medal for an Israeli woman.


2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: 14.25 m (Q) or at least best 12 performers (q)


2015 World Club Series
The 2015 World Club Series was the inaugural World Club Series and was contested by six clubs (three each from the Super League and National Rugby League), including Super League XIX champions, St Helens R.F.C. and 2014 NRL Premiers, the South Sydney Rabbitohs. The 2015 series marked a departure from the previous format, whereby only the premiers from the two respective competitions would take part.


2015 World Club Series, Background
In September 2014 it was announced that the World Club Series would be overhauled to include six clubs – three each from the Super League and Australia's National Rugby League. The 2015 series will take place between 22–25 February, and will feature three matches, the first and second essentially being two exhibition games and the final game being for the Championship trophy between the two respective premiers as in previous years.


2015 World Club Series, Background
Other than the two aforementioned teams, it was also announced that Super League clubs the Warrington Wolves and Wigan Warriors, as well as National Rugby League clubs the St. George Illawarra Dragons and Brisbane Broncos would also take part.


2015 World Club Series, Series details, World Club Challenge, St. Helens Rugby League Football Club
Saints finished Super League XIX's regular season in 1st place and on 11 October 2014 defeated defending premiers the Wigan Warriors 14 - 6 in the 2014 Super League Grand Final, qualifying the Saints for their sixth World Club Challenge overall.


2015 World Club Series, Series details, World Club Challenge, South Sydney Rabbitohs
The Rabbitohs finished the 2014 NRL season in third place and on 5 October 2014 defeated the 7th-placed Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 30 - 6 in the 2014 NRL Grand Final, qualifying South Sydney for their first World Club Challenge.


2015 World Cup (snooker)
The 2015 Nongfu Spring World Cup was a professional non-ranking team snooker tournament that took place from 15 to 21 June 2015 at the Wuxi City Sports Park Stadium in Wuxi, China. It was the 14th edition of the event, and it was televised live by Eurosport.