Strange won a Crystal Bear award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival for a short film called "Aphrodite's Farm, " a magical tale set on a dairy farm in the 1930s.

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Semenya showed the form that took her to the world championship in 2009 in Berlin, easing up to win in one minute 57.67 seconds.

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The World Athletics Championships take place in Berlin from August 15-23 2009.

BBC: Dobriskey hopes for world glory

At 17, he first burst onto the athletic stage when he came within a whisker of a bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

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Bolt stunned the sporting world in August 2008 by winning the 100m and 200m Olympic golds in world record times in Beijing, and then repeated the feat at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

BBC: Usain Bolt to miss Commonwealth Games, says coach

The South African runner's 800-meters victory as an 18-year-old at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin sparked a furore that saw her miss a year of competition while tests were undertaken to determine her true sex.

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Ennis broke through at the 2009 World Championships when she claimed gold in Berlin but last year in Daegu, South Korea, she relinquished her title to Russia's Tatyana Chernova.

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If its plan succeeds, the party will consolidate its power next year before Germany's federal election in 2009, after which Mr Huber may go to Berlin as finance minister.

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