Athletics: Ohuruogu into semis
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Christine Ohuruogu continues her comeback at the World Championships, easing into the 400m semi-finals.
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ADELAIDE, Australia  - Third seed Jarkko Nieminen of Finland will take on Frenchman Michael Llodra in the final of the Adelaide International after both came through their semi-finals in straight sets on Saturday.
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OSAKA, Japan  - The finale of the world athletics championships belonged to the glittering United States track team on a Sunday night spiced up by charismatic European performances in the field.
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Asafa Powell used a strong start to win the 100 meters in 9.83 seconds yesterday at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany. Battling a head wind, Powell, a Jamaican, was 0.09 seconds short of the world record he set two weeks ago in Italy. Jaysuma Saidy Ndure of Norway was second in 10.06 and Michael Frater of Jamaica third in 10.11.
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New Delhi, October 3: Paul Kirui pulled away from the field in the final stages to claim the men&#39;s title and lead Kenya to the team honours in the world half-marathon championships on Sunday.
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NEW DELHI: Paul Kirui pulled away from the field in the final stages to claim the men&#39;s title and lead Kenya to the team honours in the world half-marathon championships yesterday.
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Mizuki Noguchi kept the Olympic Games women's marathon title in Japan when she clinched gold here in a time of 2hrs 26min 20sec.
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Kelly Holmes came from the back of the pack to take Olympic gold last night in a thrilling 800 metres final. Holmes was second to last going into the second of the two laps.
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Sport: Wimbledon: Reigning champion recovers from losing first set of tournament to reach semi-finals.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova had little trouble overcoming France&#39;s Youlia Fedossova 6-3 6-4 to claim her place in the women&#39;s semifinals at the Japan Open.
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Britain's Kelly Holmes stays on track for a medal double as she qualifies for  the 1500m semi-finals.
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ATHENS -- The US women's trio of 100-meter sprinters, including five-time Olympian Gail Devers , all raced into the semifinals with strong, controlled performances yesterday in the debut of the track and field competition at the Olympic Stadium.
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What a night for U.S. athletes in Olympic track and field. Even in the event that went to another country, an American won. Shawn Crawford, Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin swept the 200. Dwight Phillips and John Moffitt went 1-2 in the long jump. Marion Jones and the 400-meter relay team cruised into the finals.
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Alistair Cragg couldn't believe his eyes. He saw Kenenisa Bekele , the favorite in virtually every race he enters, start sprinting for the finish line. The only problem was, there were two laps remaining in the men's 3,000-meter event at last night's Reebok Boston Indoor Games at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.
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On a day when it would&#39;ve been easy to lose, Evansville&#39;s Jeff Overton instead advanced to the semifinals of the 104th US Amateur Championship.
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More fancied racers were relegated to secondary positions as Paul Kirui of Kenya and Yingjie Sun of China won the men&#39;s and women&#39;s titles respectively in the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in New Delhi on Sunday.
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BASEL, Switzerland  - Double Olympic gold  medallist Nicolas Massu registered his best win since Athens on  Friday, striding into the semifinals of the $1.26 million Swiss  Indoors tournament with a 6-2, 7-6 win over Bohdan Ulihrach.