The team includes main medal hope Alistair Cragg who will run the 5000m.

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Kenyan Augustine Choge, the Commonwealth 5000m champion, won the 1500m in a personal best of three minutes 32.72 seconds.

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Deploying a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) in the Cayman Trough, they stumbled across a previously-unknown site nearly 5000m below the surface.

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There were bronzes for wheelchair racer Shelly Woods in her 5000m event and for Gemma Prescott in the club throw.

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American 400m runners Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards, as well as Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba (5000m), all triumphed in their events to maintain their jackpot hopes.

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The largest cheer was for the host team Canada, with Clara Hughes, defending 5000m speed skating champion waving the flag and clad all in red.

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O'Rourke and McSweeney had already won bronze and silver in the 100m hurdles and 100m while Paul Hession (200m) and Jolene Byrne (5000m) also finished third in their events in Turkey.

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However, Cragg's build-up to the Championships has not gone smoothly with a drop-out in a recent 5000m outing in Paris followed by a surprise defeat by Liam Reale in the 1500m at the Irish Championships on Sunday.

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