World Athletics Championships: Day 6 Live: Bin Feng wins gold: China’s Bin Feng clinched a surprise gold in the women’s discus throw final on Thursday. Her personal best of 69.12 helped her win gold. Sandra Perkovic and Valarie Allman had to be satisfied with silver and bronze respectively. Meanwhile, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Michael Norman emerged as the fastest in the 400m women and men semifinals to qualify for finals. Miller-Uibo timing read 49.55 while Norman topped the chart at 44.30. Follow World Athletics Championships Live updates with InsideSport.IN
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It was a day to remember for Feng in Oregon. All eyes were on the stars of the event, Sandra Perkovic and Valarie Allman, but the Chinese woman stole the gold with a brilliant show.
However, it has to be said that Perkovic did give it a big try in challenging Feng. Perkovic managed to throw the disc 68.45, which happened to be her best of the season. But she knew that she had to do much more than that to topple Feng from the top, which never happened.
Even the favourite was below par. Her best throw was just 68.30, but it helped her win bronze. It was an off day for Allman, who had a foul and a mere throw of 51m too. In fact, the final was just between the three, where Feng stood tall from first to last.
Bin Feng’s 🇨🇳 PB throw of 69.12m to take the lead in the discus final! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/y5ep4ocjay
— tms (@TnFtms) July 21, 2022
What happened in the 400m? In the men’s 400m competition, there were no major surprises with Michael Norman breezing through to the finals, clocking 44.30 in the semifinals. All the finalists, who have qualified, ran a sub 45.00. Kirani James and Wayde Van Niekerk, who ran 44.74 and 44.75, will be serious contenders for gold medal in the final.
As far as the women’s semifinal is concerned in the 400m, Miller-Uibo delivered her season’s best at the big stage, clocking 49.55 to qualify for the finals. Besides her, Marileify Paulino was the only other athlete to finish under 50 seconds. She had the second fastest timing at 49.98.
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