The women s 100m final featured the eight fastest entrants of the championships, but ultimately there was no doubt over the winner as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce triumphed with the biggest winning margin in World Championships history.

With the exception of possibly the Ethiopian record-holder Roba Gari, all of the chief protagonists eased into Thursday s final.

We knew Pawel Fajdek was good. The Polish hammer thrower had won the gold medal at two consecutive World University Games. He had a personal best of 81.39m. He had thrown 79.99m already in 2013.

With a Croatian flag draped around her neck, Sandra Perkovic stood proudly before the appreciative crowd in Moscow s Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday night, after winning her first IAAF World Championships Discus title.

Tuesday s action on day four of the IAAF World Championships may be the most emblematic of the entire meet, if only because it features the primary component of the Championships logo.

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.

David Oliver had a hard time talking to his mother after the biggest win of his life.

Ashton Eaton s celebrations after winning his IAAF World Championships Decathlon title were likely to be muted as he was due to watch the woman he married last month, Canadian heptathlete Brianne Theisen, competing in her event, with an early start exp...

If at first you don t succeed then try and try again... that should be the mantra of David Oliver, who after years of major championship frustration finally delivered his first major title at the age of 31.

Three men surpassed the automatic qualifying distance of 65.00m and all three did so on their first attempt, making it a quick morning s work on Monday for Germany s reigning Olympic, World and European champion Robert Harting, Poland s 2013 world lead...