In the 400m hurdles, Thomas Barr from Waterford was in action in the first of three semi-finals. His time of 48.71 wasn't fast enough to make the final. The slowest qualification time was 48.46 seconds.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK
1 Boniface Mucheru TUMUTI KEN KEN 48.29 Q
2 Kerron CLEMENT USA USA 48.50 Q
3 Timofey CHALYY RUS RUS 48.69
4 Thomas BARR IRL IRL 48.71
5 Rasmus MÄGI EST EST 48.76
6 Abdelmalik LAHOULOU ALG ALG 48.87
7 Annsert WHYTE JAM JAM 48.90
8 Michaël BULTHEEL BEL BEL 49.66
Race video...Thomas is in lane 9
Post race interview....
In the mens 800m, Mark English from Donegal finished 5th in the 3rd semi-final of the mens 800m. The slowest of the times to qualify was 1:45:02.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK
1 Amel TUKA BIH BIH 1:44.84 Q
2 Ferguson Cheruiyot ROTICH KEN KEN 1:44.85 Q
3 Nader BELHANBEL MAR MAR 1:45.28 q
4 Marcin LEWANDOWSKI POL POL 1:45.34
5 Mark ENGLISH IRL IRL 1:45.55
6 Rafith RODRÍGUEZ COL COL 1:45.63
7 Erik SOWINSKI USA USA 1:47.16
8 Jena UMAR ETH ETH 1:48.68
Race video...
Post race interview with Mark English...
In the mens 20k walk, Alex Wright was unfortunately disqualified.
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Sat 22nd Aug 2015
In the fourth heat of the mens 400m hurdles, Thomas Barr finished in 3rd place to secure a spot in the semi-finals. With 100m to go, it looked as if he was out of it but he put in his trademark finishing kick to get into third.
Thomas is out in lane 8...
Post race interview with Thomas...
Mark English from Donegal was in action in the heats of the 800m on the first day of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. In the third heat, Mark finished 5th and his time was just fast enough to go through to the semi-finals as one of the fastest runners up.
Race video....
Post race interview...
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