Ireland’s Alex Wright has finished down the field in 31st in the men’s 20k walk at the World Athletics Championships in Doha. Britain’s Callum Wilkinson hit the front six kilometres in, but would be rapidly overtaken by China’s Asian Games champion Wang Kaihua. Wang only held on for two kilometres before being overhauled by former world youths (U18) champion Toshikazu Yamanishi of Japan. Barshim’s high jump triumph lifted the roof off the Khalifa Stadium, the defending champion from London 2017 being the only jumper to clear a world lead 2.37 metres. Croatia’s twice Olympic and world champion Sandra Perkovic was third on 66.72 The first Irish woman since Sonia O’Sullivan in 1997 to reach a 1500m World Championship Final, Ciara Mageean goes to the line for her decider at 6:55pm Irish time on Saturday night.

Source: Ethiopian News October 05, 2019 06:45 UTC