Eventually it needed a tie-break, won by the Lithuanian, to separate the pair, with the last three points all Ward errors.

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James Kelbie, the man Cumming tried to blame for the stabbing, attempted to separate the struggling pair.

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The judges were unable to separate the Salford pair of Andy Jones and his Ethiopian-born clubmate Tomas Abyu, who crossed the finishing line together in 64.49.

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