admin Niklas Kaul of Germany has won gold in the decathlon after a strong finish in the javelin and 1,500 meters.
Kaul, who entered the meet No. 8 in the world, stormed into the lead by winning the final two events for a total 8,691 points.
Estonia’s Maicel Uibo, the husband of world 400 silver medalist Shaunae Miller-Uibo, was second with 8,604. He needed to stay close to Kaul in the final race but lost by more than 15 seconds. Miller-Uibo had won her medal just 45 minutes before the final decathlon event.
The bronze went to Canadian Damian Warner on 8,529.
World record holder Kevin Mayer of France withdrew in tears in the eighth event, the pole vault, with injuries to his hamstring and Achilles tendon.
“I prefer that happens here than at the Olympics,” he said.
12:20 p.m.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson has swept to the gold medal in the heptathlon, capping a steady rise to the top for the British competitor.
Johnson-Thompson failed to reach the medals at the 2017 world championships and was second to Olympic champion Nafi Thiam at last year’s European championships. Over seven events Wednesday and Thursday, however, she built enough of a points advantage to have a 10-second advantage over Thiam ahead of the final event, the 800 meters.
Johnson-Thompson finished in dominant style, beating Thiam by 11 seconds in the 800. Thiam already looked to have given up the fight for gold when she opted not to take a third throw in the javelin, the penultimate event.
Johnson-Thompson’s points total of 6,981 was far ahead of Thiam’s 6,677 and the 6,560 scored by bronze medalist Verena Preiner of Austria.
11:55 p.m.
Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser has won the women’s 400 meters in the third-fastest time ever, leaving Shaunae Miller-Uibo still without a world championship gold medal.
Naser, who was born in Nigeria as Ebelechukwu Agbapuonwu and later switched allegiance to Bahrain, took the lead on the second turn and held off Miller-Uibo on the last stretch to win in 48.14 seconds. That’s the fastest anyone has run in the 34 years since Marita Koch of East Germany set the world record at 47.60.
Shericka Jackson won bronze for Jamaica in 49.47.
Miller-Uibo is the Olympic champion and won 400 silver in 2015 and 200 bronze in 2017.
Naser is competing in Doha while Bahrain is part of a regional diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar that has been in place since 2017.
11:40 p.m.
China’s Gong Lijiao has successfully defended her world title in the shot put, while Jamaica’s surge in the field events continued with silver. Gong claimed the gold with a throw 19.55 meters, only her sixth-best result of the season but enough to beat Jamaican Danniel Thomas-Dodd’s 19.47. Thomas-Dodd hit the 20-meter tape with one shot to roars from the Jamaicans in the crowd, but it was ruled a foul.
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