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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STUTTGART, Germany  - Asafa Powell had to recover   from another poor 100 meters start to extend his winning run at   the World Athletics Final on Saturday.
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Akiko Morigami outlasted the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova from Uzbekistan yesterday to earn a 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3 win and her second finals berth in three years at the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open in Mason Ohio.Morigami, the seventh seed from Japan, had 17 chances to break Amanmuradovaâs serve and converted just four. The most crucial came in the sixth game of the third set, when Morigami returned a second serve deep to Amanmuradovaâs backhand. Amanmuradova hit her return volley into the net.âIt was a little bit tough,â Morigami said. âI kept telling myself not to think about the breaks and just to focus on the next point.âShe will face the winner of the semifinal match between top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze of Russia and third-seeded Sania Mirza of India.
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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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ATHENS  Four-time judo world champion Noriko Anno broke her Olympic jinx by winning gold in the women&#39;s 78-kilogram event Thursday at the Athens Games but defending Olympic champion Kosei Inoue was dealt shock defeats to miss out on a medal in the ...
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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Christine Ohuruogu leads a British one-two in the World Championships with a stunning victory in the women's 400m.
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The Olympic 100 metres champion, Justin Gatlin, won the final sprint showdown of the season in Japan. Gatlin clocked 9.97sec to triumph in the Seiko Super meeting in Yokohama.
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Ohno takes gold: Seattle&#39;s Apolo Anton Ohno and China&#39;s Yang (A) Yang won 1,500-meter short-track races last night in Madison, Wis.
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Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui capped an impressive year by winning the men&#39;s World half-marathon title Sunday, while China&#39;s Sun Ying Jie claimed the women&#39;s race.
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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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Italian Ivano Brugnetti strode to  victory in the first athletics final of the Athens Olympics on  Friday with a commanding performance in the men's 20km walk.
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Isabella Bosibori Ochichi led the 5000m race for six laps only to crumble with 200 metres to finish and settle for the silver, Kenya&#39;s second medal at these 28th Olympic Games, in
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The marathon produced a range of different emotions as the athletes battled with each other and the heat of Athens. Mizuki Noguchi of Japan took the Gold in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 20 seconds, followed by Ndereba of Kenya 49 seconds behind.
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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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ATHENS - Asafa Powell led the way into what appears to be a wide-open Olympic 100m final on Sunday as the Jamaican won his semifinal in 9.95 seconds.
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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.