World Athletics Championships day four – live!

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Updates from a night of six finals in Doha
World championships ‘catastrophe’ leaves athletics reeling

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6.29pm BST
Back on the track, Britain’s Andrew Pozzi qualifies for the semi-final in third place with a time of 13.53 in heat 3. More dramatically, race leader Daniel Roberts completely clattered the final hurdle but he stumbled over the line in first place. The ever-present Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde came through in second place and former world champion Sergey Shubenkov triumphed in heat 2 in 13.27 seconds.
6.20pm BST
Britain’s Miguel Francis is out of the 200m semi-finals with a quad injury. Tough news for British medal hopes. Francis had scaled 19.97 this year with a PB of 19.88. Continue reading...

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