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As expected the Kenyan quartet made qualifying for the final look easy as they won all three heats.

BBC Sport's Michael Johnson compares the different running styles of 100m rivals Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt.

Day two of the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 steps up a notch with medals to be determined in five events, headlined by the men's 100m final. We take a look at some of the highlights and what to expect.

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

Will the world record holder Renaud Lavillenie win the elusive World Championships gold? We will know the answer to this question on Sunday night, but he will definitely have a shot at it after successfully qualifying fo...

How to stop Mo Farah, we wondered in our preview of the 10,000m at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015.

Gong Lijiao and Christina Schwanitz were clear favourites coming into the final, the main question was whether the home crowd would give the Chinese putter that special boost to help her capture her first global title.

As expected, the heptathlon competition moves to its overnight rest in British command.

Great Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill leads the heptathlon at the halfway stage at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

World junior record-holder Trayvon Bromell ran the fastest legal time in the first round of the 100m, winning the fourth heat impressively in 9.91.

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill finish first and second in their 200m heptathlon heat.

Jessica Ennis-Hill still leads the heptathlon with 2968 points after three events, but her shot put was not a total success.

Great Britain's CJ Ujah and Richard Kilty progress to the 100m semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, but team-mate James Dasaolu loses out.

Gabby Logan introduces highlights of the first day of action at the World Championships in Beijing, China.

Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin win their 100m heats at the World Championships in Beijing to make it through to Sunday's semi-finals.

In contrast to the qualifying rounds of some other events on the opening day, the men's 400m hurdles threw up its fair share of shocks and upsets.

Great Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill throws a solid 13.73m in the shot put while her rival Katarina Johnson-Thompson produces a personal best of 12.47m.

Great Britain's Niall Flannery finishes second in the 400m hurdles to qualify for the semi-finals in a season's best time at the World Championships in Beijing.

Sixteen years after Haile Gebrselassie made history by becoming the first runner to win four world titles in the 10,000m, his near-namesake Ghirmay Ghebreslassie was in the spotlight in the opening competition of the IAA...

Katarina Johnson-Thompson finishes in first place in the heptathlon high jump event at the World Championships in Beijing.

World leader Brianne Theisen-Eaton lost a lot of valuable points in the high jump, the second event in the women's heptathlon, by only clearing 1.80m today.

One month after recording the fastest 1500m in history, Genzebe Dibaba got her Beijing campaign underway by clocking the fastest 1500m heat time ever at the IAAF World Championships.