There was just one throw left in the javelin at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing today - and the woman who took to the runway was in third place.

Mo Farah became the first man to retain both the 5000m and 10,000m titles in the history of the IAAF World Championships with another spectacular performance in Beijing tonight.

As he passed the bell, he afforded himself a small smile and then the expression of delight on his face grew wider with every stride into the stadium.

Dafne Schippers stretched out on the track and she just did not want to get up. It was as though she was absorbing every single second of what she had just achieved.

Never mind that there were 50,000 people in the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing, the yell from Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk could be heard above them all.

It was some morning in the Bird’s Nest Stadium for Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic in what has been quite a year.