Mian Shakeel aslam: Yelena Isinbayeva failed to win a medal as Brazilian Fabiana Murer takes women's pole vault gold.
Russia s athletics queen Yelena Isinbayeva became the latest upset at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea as she failed to gain a medal in an event won by Brazilian Fabiana Murer.
Isinbayeva, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder, failed to clear 4.80 metres, well short of her world record of 5.05m. Her best clearance of 4.65m left her down in sixth place. The 2005 and 2007 champion had also failed to gain a medal at the 2009 world championships in Berlin.
Murer took the gold with a 4.85m clearance. Martina Strutz of Germany took second with 4.80m with Russia s Svetlana Feofanova third with 4.75m.
World record holder David Rudisha of Kenya won gold in the men s 800 metres with a dominant display of front running.
The rangy Rudisha, who broke the world record twice in a week in 2010, took the title in Daegu in a time of 1:43.91 ahead of Abubaker Kaki of Sudan. The bronze medal went to Russian Yuriy Borzakovskiy.
Teenager Kirani James chased down defending champion LaShawn Merritt on the home straight to win 400 metres gold and Grenada s first medal at the world championships.
Jessica Ennis, Britain s brightest hope for athletics gold at next year s London Olympics, lost her heptathlon world title to Russia s Tatyana Chernova.
Bidding to become the first Britain to retain a world title, Ennis had held a 118-point lead after the morning s long jump but her chances of retaining the title she won two years ago all but disappeared in the second event, the javelin throw.
While Chernova managed a best of 52.95 metres with her second attempt in blinding sunshine at the Daegu stadium, Ennis was left counting the cost of failing to register a throw over 39.95.
The 25-year-old Ennis trailed the Olympic bronze medallist by 133 points going into the seventh and final event of the competition and the Russian was able to protect her commanding lead comfortably in the 800 metres.
Chernova clocked her season s best time of two minutes 08.04 seconds to clinch the gold with 6,880 points, while Ennis s personal best of 2.07.81 was only good enough for silver with 6,751. Jennifer Oeser of Germany took bronze with 6,572 points.
In the day s other two finals, Robert Harting of Germany won the men s discus with 68.97m and Yuliya Zaripova of Russia took the women s 3000m steeplechase in 9:07.03.
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