Hassan, who had to start from the back, completed the distance in 4.09.34.
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Thats just the way things have been going for the Americans so far at the world championships.
Kenya’s former world junior champion Faith Kipyegon was the only runner to stay with Dibaba over the last 400 and took silver in 4.08.96.
On Monday, Dafne Schippers became the first Dutch women to win a medal in a world championship sprint, taking silver in the 100 metres.
While Rudisha’s 800 metres victory was not a patch on the brilliant run that won him gold in a world record time at the London Olympics, there was a reminder of one of the great nights of that Games when Britain’s Greg Rutherford won long jump gold.
Long jumper Jeff Henderson, the world leader this year, didn’t make the finals. Natasha Hastings of the U.S. failed to advance.
Australia’s Fabrice Lapierre also fought through the pain of a hamstring injury to win silver and bronze went to the youngest of the trio of Chinese in the final, Wang Jianan.
Tirunesh, now 30 and a mother of son Nathan, already has a standout record with three Olympic and five long-distance world titles to go along with five world cross-country titles, but the 24-year-old Genzebe is planning to close in fast. No woman has ever won gold at both the 1,500 and 5,000.
A big day for Kenya with two gold medals: One for David Rudisha, the king of the men’s 800 meters run, and a surprising one to Nicolas Bett in the men’s 400 meters hurdles.
Denis Kudryavtsev earned silver in a Russian record 48.05 and Jeffrey Gibson took bronze in a Bahamas record 48.17.
Genzebe has carried on the sporting success from her sister Tirunesh who was an Olympic champion.
Sweden’s defending champion Abeba Aregawi finished sixth.
“In the semifinal I made a mistake with the steps between hurdles, so in this final I was able to correct it”, the 23-year-old Bett told reporters.
The Olympic champion and world record-holder led from gun to tape, clocking 1min 45.84sec for victory.
Usain Bolt, champion and world record holder in the 100m, breezed through the first round of heats in the 200m, finishing in a time of 20.28 seconds.
Perkovic, the Diamond League victor in 2012, ’13 and ’14, moved from fourth place into the silver medal position with a final throw of 67.39.
But attention will inevitably focus on Jamaica’s Bolt, who narrowly beat two-time doping offender Gatlin in Sunday’s 100m final to strike a symbolic blow for clean athletics. Next summer in Rio de Janeiro, Rutherford, Rudisha and Usain Bolt could head into competition with the title of reigning Olympic and world champion.
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