In the men's 100-meter hurdles, Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados nosed out Terrence Trammell of the United States by one-100th of a second to win his nation's first-ever World Championship gold medal in a national record time of 13.14 seconds.
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Scotland's Laura Kenney recorded a lifetime best of 8 min 50.37 sec in the women's 3, 000m, while Andy Turner , whose World Championship hopes were wrecked by a hamstring injury, placed fifth in the 110m hurdles with a time of 13.57sec behind Berlin champion RyanBrathwaite, who won in 13.16sec.