Alonso Edward and Rasheed Dwyer took maximum points for Americas in the men s 200m, both dipping below 20 seconds as they crossed the line virtually together in the closest ever finish at an IAAF World or Continental Cup.
All season long, until the final week in August, world champion Eunice Sum had been the dominant force among the planet s pre-eminent female two-lap runners.
Uganda may have dominated the medal table but the star of the show at the the 30th edition of the World Mountain Running Championships was Austria s Andrea Mayr who became the first runner to clinch five world titles in the discipline when she won in C...
US record holder Emma Coburn beat her arch rival, world leader Hiwot Ayalew, to take eight points for Team Americas in the first track event of day two, avenging her defeat from two months ago when the two met at the IAAF Diamond League in Glasgow.
Since the start of June, LaShawn Merritt has lost just once in nine races and that reverse came in the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, when the US athlete finished second to the London 2012 Olympic Games champion Kirani James.
