The American rivalry between two World champions has staged in Glasgow's Emirates Arena as Christian Coleman takes the 60 metres gold at the Indoors.
Coleman, who will be 28 in four days, revenged from reigning World 100 and 200 metres champion Noah Lyles in the anticipated 60 metres final in Glasgow. The man from Atlanta showed his fine form little earlier from the final as equalling Lyles' world-leading mark in 6.43 and returned to track for the glory in two hours. In the final, he left from the block well and maintained his lead until the end and secured gold with 6.41 secs. After a shaky start, Lyles composed a bit but it did not enough him for the gold by distanced 0.03 seconds of his rival.
Christian Coleman grabbed his third World Indoors medal, two of them were gold, and became only third man to have triplet in 60 metres after Britain's short distance ace Jason Gardener.
CROUSER CRUISE
Another world record holder Ryan Crouser wrote his name in the winning list in the first day action. Crouser recorded five 22+ throws and handed championship record as well with his 22.77m effort. His long-time rival Tom Walsh has finished second in 22.07m to became the first man to have five World Indoors medal in history as joining fellow Kiwi legend Valerie Adams, who also had five podiums.
Belgian Noor Vidts retained her pentathlon title after collecting 4773 points and became first atlete to do this. Vidts started to 800 metres by only nine points deficit against Finnish talent Saga Vanninen, but finished almost eight seconds clear of the main rival. In the other hand, Vanninen secured Finland's first World indoor medal by a female. Sofie Dokter claimed a bronze after hard-fought battle with Sveva Gerevini, who broke national record with 4559 points but just came 12 points short for podium.
Nicola Olyslagers down to defending champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh in high jump final. The smiling Aussie cleared 1.99 in the final attempt while Mahuchikh did not. Despite coming that high with zero fault, the talented Ukrainian finished with 1.97 as taking silver. Lia Apostolovski brought to Slovenia a bronze medal with countback over German Christina Honsel, both athletes finished in 1.95 metres.
