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Bajan wins hurdles in photo finish
21 August 2009 07:30 am
Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados, who didn't even qualify for last year's Olympic final, won by a nose over Americans Terrence Trammell and David Payne in the 110-metres final Thursday at the world championships.
Brathwaite was clocked at 13.14 seconds, one-100th of a second ahead each of Trammell and Payne.
Trammell also won silver at the world championships two years ago in Osaka, behind Liu Xiang of China.
Payne won silver at the Beijing Games and bronze in Osaka.
World record holder and Beijing Olympic champion Dayron Robles of Cuba did not compete in the final.
Robles hit the first three hurdles in his semifinal heat earlier in the day and then pulled up limping. He has been battling a hamstring injury, barely qualifying for the semifinals yesterday.
The Cuban broke Liu's world record last summer, running in 12.87 seconds.
Robles was the latest athlete in the event to see injury curtail his bid for the finals.
Liu didn't compete in Berlin due to an Achilles tendon injury. American David Oliver, the bronze medallist from the Beijing Olympics, didn't make the squad after missing the national championships with an injury.
Men's 5,000 semifinals
Kenenisa Bekele stayed on target for a double-double by leading all runners in the 5,000 metre semifinal.
The Ethiopian superstar crossed the line in a time of 13:19.77.
Bekele won both the 5,000 and 10,000 at the Beijing Olympics. Earlier this week, he won a fourth consecutive world championship at the latter distance, at which he has never lost.
Bekele is slightly more vulnerable in the 5,000, with a silver at the 2004 Olympics and a bronze at the Paris world championships a year earlier.
He failed to qualify for the 5,000 at the last worlds, having to drop out of the African qualifier due to exhaustion.
Matthew Tegenkamp of the United States was second in the first semifinal on Thursday at Olympic Stadium, followed by Mohammed Farah of Great Britain in the first heat.
Beijing Olympic silver medallist Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya was second in the other semifinal, behind Moses Ndiema Kpsiro of Uganda.
Bernard Lagat of the United States also qualified for the final, finishing fourth in the semi.
Lagat is looking for a fourth world championship medal. He won gold in the 1,500 and 5,000 in Osaka and bronze on Wednesday in the 1,500 final.
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