Report22 Aug 2015


Day one in numbers – IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015

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The men's 10,000m at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 (© Getty Images)

After the first day of competition at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, we’ve got the significant numbers of the day:

1

Number of gold medals won by Eritrea in World Championships history, now the relatively unknown marathon runner Ghirmay Ghebreselassie took the first gold of the championships in a heat-slowed 2:12:28.

0

Number of previous marathon champions younger than Ghebreselassie.

 

 
Ghirmay Ghebreslassie wins the marathon at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015

 

6

The finishing position of defending marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda.

22

The position of Mark Korir, the only one of the Kenyan team to finish.

2

The worst position Jessica Ennis-Hill ever held in the heptathlon throughout the first day. Ennis-Hill had the second-fastest 100m hurdles time, took the lead from Nadine Visser after the high jump, and hasn’t been overtaken yet.

 

 
Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Nadine Visser in the heptathlon 200m at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015

 

80

Points separating Ennis-Hill from her British team-mate, second-placed Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

60

Points separating Johnson-Thompson from fourth-placed Brianne Theisen-Eaton of Canada.

6

Points separating Theisen-Eaton and third-place Nadine Visser of the Netherlands.

3

Events left on Sunday to sort out those gaps.

3

Attempts needed for Christina Schwanitz of Germany to put the shot 20.37m and surpass China’s Gong Lijiao’s 20.30m first-round effort.

 

 
Christina Schwanitz in the shot at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015

 

0

Number of marks by all other competitors in the women’s shot better than any mark recorded for Gong or Schwanitz.

6

World Championship gold medals held by Mo Farah after tonight’s 10,000m final.

3

Number of men with two consecutive 10,000m titles: Haile Gebrselassie, Kenenisa Bekele, and Farah.

500

Metres of the 10,000m race which Farah led before his 27:01.13 finish.

 

 
Mo Farah celebrates his 10,000m victory at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015

 

3

The hundredths of seconds by which Farah broke Kenenisa Bekele’s stadium record, set at the 2008 Olympics

1

Number of 800m semi-final qualifiers with PBs faster than IAAF President-Elect Sebastian Coe. (That would be world record-holder David Rudisha of Kenya.)

2

Heats, of five, of the men’s 400m hurdles won by Kenyans (Nicholas Bett and Boniface Tumuti).

1

Number of jumps it took Renaud Lavillenie of France to clear the 5.70m automatic qualifying height in the pole vault, after passing all heights up to that one.

3

Number of jumps it took defending pole vault champion Raphael Holzdeppe of Germany to do the same thing.

16

Number of vaulters advancing to the final after clearing 5.70m.

6

Lane occupied by Usain Bolt as he advanced comfortably to the 100m semi-finals.

25

Hours between Bolt’s heat and the 100m final Sunday evening.

 

 
Usain Bolt in the 100m heats at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015

 

Parker Morse for the IAAF

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