In a dramatic and slightly chaotic finale to the Women's 20km Race Walk, Elena Lashmanova led home a Russian one-two to add the World title to the Olympic title she won in London last year.

One of the curious anomalies in World Championship history prior to Moscow was that no Kenyan woman had ever landed this title. Not anymore.

Despite the weather oscillating around 20 degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning, Bohdan Bondarenko seemed to feel the cold as he was dressing in a baggy long-sleeved T-shirt and tights, as well as his Ukrainian vest, during the High Jump qualifying rounds.

There were distance finals, sprint finals, throws finals, and even a race walk, but Tuesday was the day Yelena Isinbayeva wrote, stage managed, and played the starring role at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

This morning s qualifying round did nothing but simply underline the poor standards in the women s Triple Jump, because for the first time since the event made its debut at the World Championships in 1993, a mark below 14 metres was enough to make the ...

They came, they saw, they went home happy.

Hanna Melnychenko s season s best of 41.87m in the Javelin has suddenly made it very hard for anyone to catch her during the 800m, the final event of the Heptathlon.

History, of sorts, was made when Mohammed Aman became the first Ethiopian to win a world outdoor 800m title as he kicked hard coming off the final bend to snatch the gold medal on Tuesday night (13).

The celebration for Raphael Holzdeppe began as soon as the bar on London 2012 Olympic Games champion Renaud Lavillenie's final vault at 5.96m crashed to the pit at the IAAF World Championships.

It is hard to read too much into the heats of the men s 400m Hurdles which saw 24 out of the 36 starters advance to Tuesday night s semi-finals.