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Sunday, 23 September 2007
HIGHLIGHTS – World Athletics Final, Day 2
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - The last big athletics day of the track and field season produced a great showdown with some thrilling events and a number of unexpected results. On day two of the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final in Stuttgart’s Gottlieb Daimler Stadium close to 30,000 spectators came to see the competition following on from the 23,000 who had be present the day before. And they were not disappointed. It was the final event which became the highlight of the weekend: Dayron Robles stormed to a 12.92 seconds win in the 110m Hurdles, which is a Central American and Carribean record.
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Robles steals the show in Stuttgart - World Athletics Final
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - It’s almost as though the organisers of the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final knew they should save the best for last when they decided to schedule the men’s 110m Hurdles as the last event of the...
In 19.89 seconds, Ndure blasts to the forefront - World Athletics Final
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - One year ago, Tyson Gay capped his breakout season with a stellar 19.68 victory at the World Athletics Final. This year, Stuttgart may have witnessed the birth of another sprint star, Nor...
Soi - 'Even our sprinters are afraid of my 200m' - World Athletics Final
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - When Edwin Cheruiyot Soi broke from the men's 5000m pack on the second day of the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, with kickers like Eliud Kipchoge and Sileshi Sihine already in fu...
'Event by Event' report coverage - World Athletics Final
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - The IAAF’s website team brings you comprehensive written news coverage of all the action from the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final 2007 in Stuttgart on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September 2007.
You can’t help but notice it - World Athletics Final
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - It was the moment that tennis met track and field. Tasha Danvers-Smith, with a combination of mischief and daring, made her entrance at the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final today in a £50 all-white ten...
Sunday 23 – PREVIEW – World Athletics Final
23 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - Another great Javelin duel between Finland’s Tero Pitkämäki and Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen plus a Kenyan clash in the 3000m Steeplechase will probably be the highlights of men’s events on day two of the IAAF / VT...
HIGHLIGHTS – World Athletics Final, Day One
22 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - International athletics is a sport of diversity and contrasts.
Powell on his 9.83 – ‘It was one of the best’
22 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany – Asafa Powell has developed a knack for making even some of the most sensational performances in history seem almost routine.
Plawgo attains 'much more than expected' - World Athletics Final
22 September 2007 - Stuttgart, Germany - He won, he fell, he was physically sick. So it was understandable that Marek Plawgo needed a few minutes to gather his thoughts after a thrilling finish to the men’s 400m Hurdles at the IAAF / V...
