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Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles was stripped of gold at the world athletics championships in Daegu.

30 August,2011 07:19 am

Dayron Robles was disqualified at the at the world athletics championships to hand Jason Richardson the world championship gold medal in the mens 110-metre hurdles.Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles was stripped of gold and glory at the world athletics championships in Daegu, South Korea in a twist every bit as dramatic as Usain Bolts disqualification from the blue riband 100 metres sprint the night before.The muscular world record-holder was disqualified after a physical track tussle in the 110 metres hurdles final with Chinas Liu Xiang.Robles bumped Liu in an epic race between the three fastest hurdlers of all time -- Americas David Oliver finished fifth -- and crossed the line first ahead of American Jason Richardson.The Chinese protested, however, and though world athletics governing body the IAAF did not rule out the race being re-run, Richardson has gold as it stands with Liu in silver and Britains Andy Turner lifted to bronze.Allyson Felix of the United States dreams of completing an unprecedented womens 200-400m double at a worlds disappeared when she was beaten in the 400 final by Amantle Montsho, the first Botswanan to win a world championship gold.Montsho raced across the line in a time of 49.56 seconds with Felix just three-hundreths of a second behind. Anastasiya Kapachinskaya won bronze for Russia.Carmelita Jeter put a smile back on the faces of Team USA in the nights last final, racing to gold in the womens 100 metres.She finished in 10.90 seconds, beating Jamaicas Veronica Campbell-Brown by 0.07 seconds with Trinidadian Kelly-Ann Baptiste third.Earlier, South African double-amputee Oscar Pistorius bowed out of the championships after failing to qualify for the 400 metres final.In the field events, Koji Murofushi earned a surprise gold medal in the hammer with a throw of 81.24 metres to give Japan its first title of the world championships.Murofushis mark was six centimetres better than that of Hungarian Krisztian Pars, and Slovenian Primoz Kozmus, who won gold in Berlin two years ago, had to settle for the bronze.Valerie Adams of New Zealand won her third successive shot title with a championship record of 21.24 metres in the final round.Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus was second with 20.05 followed by American Jillian Camarena-Williams on 20.02.There was drama in the mens pole vault when Russian Dmitry Starodubtsevs pole snapped, leaving him sprawled on the landing area clutching his chest, though he was able to eventually able to walk away, wincing in pain.The competition was won by Polands Pawel Wojciechowskis clearance at the second attempt of 5.90 metres, beating into second place Lazaro Borges who needed three attempts to clear the same height. Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie took third on 5.85 metres.