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It was a fitting finale to the six-day championships which saw three world junior marks being bettered _ with two more likely to get ratified by December-end _ apart from nine championship records being rewritten. If the men's sprint relay produced a world record, with Ashton Collins, Wes Felix, Ivory Williams and Willie Hordge becoming the first to break through the 39-second barrier, for the capacity crowd it was the fantastic victory of the host nation in the women's 4x100m relay that proved most memorable on the concluding day. The US men's quartet bettered the mark set by their countrymen, Neal Jessie, Allen Franklin, Stanley Blalock and Dennis Mitchell in 1983. The Jamaican women's team clocked the second fastest ever while winning the gold from the US team, at 43.40 secs, just two-hundredth of a second shy of the world junior record. The US team finished second in 43.66. Ethiopian Meseret Defar completed a grand double by winning the women's 5000m gold, to add to the one in the 3000m she had taken earlier. Yassine Bensghir of Morocco clocked a personal best of 3:40.72 to claim the men's metric mile gold, with Qatari Abdulrahman Suleiman coming second. In the women's 1500m, Kenyan Viola Kibiwot won in 4:12.57. Eight continental records were bettered during the meet, apart from the world junior and championship records. The men's shot put and discus also produced world best junior marks, but with the new weights in use since January this year, the International Association of Athletics Fderations (IAAF) will ratify them only at the end of the year if no better marks are set by then. Thirty-seven member federations were listed on the medals table with the US topping with eight gold, five silver and seven bronze, ahead of Kenya (five gold, one silver, two bronze) and Ethiopia (three gold, four silver, one bronze). For the first time in the history of the championships, Antigua (one silver), Kazakhstan (one silver) Luxembourg (one bronze) and India (one bronze) were listed in the medals standings. (India had won a gold last time through discus thrower Seema Antil but she was stripped of the title following a positive dope test. She was the one to win a medal again this time, finishing third behind two Chinese in the discus. Her doping violation for a stimulant, two years ago, had attracted only a warning, as per rules, apart from disqualification.) The results: Men: 1,500m: 1. Yassine Bensghir (Mar) 3:40.72, 2. Abdulrahman Suleiman (Qat) 3:41.72, 3. Samwel Mwera (Tan) 3:41.75; 110m hurdles: 1. Antwon Hicks (USA) 13.42s, 2. Shi Dongpend (Chn) 13.58, 3. Shamar Sands (Bah) 13.67; pole vault: 1. Maksym Mazuryk (Ukr) 5.55m, 2. Vladyslav Revenko (Ukr) 5.55, 3. Vincent Favretto (Fra) 5.40; javelin: 1. Igor Janik (Pol) 74.16m, 2. Vladislav Shkurlatov (Rus) 74.09, 3. Jung Sang-Jin (Kor) 73.99; 4x100m relay: 1. United States 38.92 (World junior record, old 39.00), 2. Jamaica 39.15, 3. Trinidad and Tobago 39.17; 4x400m relay: 1. United States 3:03.71, 2. Jamaica 3:04.06, 3. Japan 3:05.80. Women: 1,500m: 1. Viola Kibiwot (Ken) 4:12.57, 2. Berhane Herpassa (Eth) 4:13.59, 3. Olesya Syreva (Rus) 4:14.32; 5,000m: 1. Meseret Defar (Eth) 15:54.94, 2. Tirunesh Dibaba (Eth) 15:55.99, 3.Vivian Cheruiyot (Ken) 15:56.04; 100m hurdles: 1. Anay Tejeda (Cub) 12.81s, 2. Agnieszka Rankowska (Pol) 13.16, 3. Tina Klein (Ger) 13.23; 4x100m relay: 1. Jamaica 43.40s, 2. United States 43.66, 3. Great Britain and Northern Ireland 44.22; 4x400m relay: 1. United States 3:29.95, 2. Great Britain and Northern Ireland 3:30.46, 3. Russia 3:30.72.
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