The women's hammer throw gold, meanwhile, went to Russia's Tatyana Lysenko, while France's Renaud Lavillenie narrowly bested a pair of competitors from Germany to win gold in the men's pole vault.

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Earlier Steve Lewis had finished a respectable sixth in the pole vault which was won by Australia's Steve Hooker in 5.90 metres with France's Romain Mesnil taking silver and Renaud Lavillenie bronze.

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Charles Renaud, 49, one of the club's founders and a former county commissioner, said the movie served as a catalyst but that the effort to rename the club had been in the making for a long time.

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