The world leader Piotr Malachowski was the man to beat in the final on Saturday night, but the Pole didn t leave his fellow competitors a chance, earning his first world title after two silver medal performances in 2009 and 2013.

The IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 reaches its climax on Sunday (30) with seven titles to be decided. Here we preview the final day of action inside the Bird s Nest stadium.

If you start well enough in the 4x100m relay, you only have to avoid disaster the rest of the way.

Once again the question has to be posed, just how do you beat Mo Farah?

Youth beat experience on Saturday night as Maria Kuchina defeated her more senior rivals in a high-class final to deliver a third successive Russian success in this event at the IAAF World Championships.

It was never going to be easy world records never are but Ashton Eaton had decided that three years and two months was long enough for his mark of 9039 to stand.