Eline Berings (born 28 May 1986) is a Belgian retired athlete , who competed in the 100 m hurdles . She is the 2005 European junior champion, and took her first medal as a senior by winning the 2009 European Indoor Championships . Her personal best times are 12.72 and 7.92 in the 100 and 60 m hurdles respectively.
29-538: As of the 2023 World Athletics Championships she works as athletics commentator for the TV broadcasts of Belgian sports program Sporza . Berings was born in Ghent . As a junior athlete she finished seventh at the 2003 World Youth Championships , failed to reach the final at the 2004 World Junior Championships , and won the gold medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships . Her personal best time in 2005, her last year as
58-602: A drug test. The IAAF later confirmed that Keïta had tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition test at a training camp, and labelled the World Championships 'drug-free'. The Championships were held during an unseasonably hot summer in Japan, in contrast to the cool, wet and windy conditions of Helsinki two years earlier. Temperatures earlier in the month had reached 40 °C (104 °F), killing several people. Temperatures had eased somewhat by
87-671: A junior, was 13.39 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in Oordegem . In the 2005–06 indoor season, she lowered her personal best time in the 60 m hurdles from 8.48 to 8.17 seconds, in a meet in February in Ghent. In the summer she competed in the 2006 European Championships , but with a time of 13.42 seconds in the heat, she did not progress from the first round. In Oordegem during May, she had lowered her personal best time to 13.27 seconds. In
116-405: The 2009 European Indoor Championships . After 8.00 in the heats and 8.01 in the semi-final, she took the gold medal ahead of Lucie Škrobáková , 2006 World Indoor Champion Derval O'Rourke and Christina Vukicevic . Her time of 7.92 seconds was a new national indoor record. She was a semi-finalist in the 60 m hurdles at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships , but failed to progress beyond
145-650: The 2009 World Championships . The IAAF stepped up its "war on doping " at the Osaka games, and for the first time, the number of drug tests exceeded 1,000. The IAAF lobbied the World Anti-Doping Agency to adopt stiffer penalties for first-time doping offences in WADA's code of practice. Before the Championships, former Olympic champion Ed Moses had voiced concerns about the extent of doping in
174-735: The National Athletics Centre , in Budapest , Hungary . The tournament returned to its usual two-year cycle after the previous event in Eugene, Oregon , United States was postponed to 2022, held a little 13 months earlier due to the COVID-19 pandemic . These are the first World Athletics Championships in Hungary. The city of Budapest had previously stated an interest in hosting the 2007 World Championships , but withdrew and it
203-454: The discus , which made her the second-oldest world champion ever and Nelson Évora 's win in the triple jump , beating world-leading Brazilian Jadel Gregorio and defending champion Walter Davis . Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain and Northern Ireland claimed a surprise gold in the women's 400 metres , less than a month after the expiry of a year-long ban imposed for missing three drug tests, while high jumper Kyriakos Ioannou claimed
232-466: The 2006–07 indoor season, she ran the 60 m hurdles in 8.07 seconds in February. Three weeks later, she competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships , where she achieved the same time in the initial rounds. She reached the final for the first time in a senior championships, and finished eighth. In the summer she competed at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics . She did not progress from
261-425: The 4 × 100 m relay, Felix in the 200 m and the two women's relays), a feat previously achieved only by Marita Koch , Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene ; while Kenyan -born Bernard Lagat became the first man to win both the 1500 and 5000 m titles at the same World Championships. Perhaps the most unlikely American medal came from 110 m hurdler David Payne , who as first alternate had not travelled to Osaka with
290-690: The athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals. * Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals. * Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals. In the United States, television rights to the championships belong to NBC Sports . Eurovision Sport and ESPN jointly hold and distribute World Athletics media rights in Europe and Africa for 2023. Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed with World Athletics rights-holders Eurovision Sport and ESPN to broadcast
319-579: The auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka , Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federations entered a total of 1,978 athletes, the greatest number of competitors at any World Championships to date. Sarah Brightman , the world's best-selling soprano, performed her single Running at
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#1732775472841348-436: The difficult conditions. Concerns had been raised in the week running up to the Championships about the low level of ticket sales – only 46% of seats had been filled by August 20. The Nagai Stadium was less than half full for the opening ceremony, and there were around 15,000 empty seats on the night of the men's 100 m final. A number of reasons were cited for the poor attendance, including high ticket prices (especially since
377-497: The end of her competitive athletic career, she began working as a sports psychologist , advising athletes such as Belgian figure skating champion Loena Hendrickx . 2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( Hungarian : 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság ), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships , were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at
406-558: The entry standard. To qualify as a Wild Card required fulfilling one of the following conditions: Countries who had no male and/or no female athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard or considered as having achieved the entry standard or a qualified relay team, could enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in one event of the championships (except the road events and field events, combined events, 10,000 m and 3000 m steeplechase). Since
435-453: The final day with a bronze for Reiko Tosa in the women's marathon . 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 * Host nation ( Japan (JPN)) The broadcasters of
464-440: The first ever medal for Cyprus in a World Championships. Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva just missed out on an unprecedented long jump / triple jump double, but still ended up with a gold and a silver medal. African countries were typically well represented in the middle and long-distance events, with Kenyans claiming both the men's and women's marathon titles and Ethiopia winning three golds. Chinese athlete Liu Xiang ,
493-523: The first round, but the time of 12.97 seconds was a new personal best. Her next major event was the 2008 World Indoor Championships . Here, she achieved another personal best time of 8.05 seconds in the heats, but with 8.10 in the semi-final, she was knocked out. She performed slightly worse during the summer, with 13.09 seconds in July in Heusden-Zolder as the season's best. In the 2008–09 indoor season, she returned to form as she competed at
522-456: The heats stage at the 2010 European Athletics Championships later that year. A knee injury and a serious muscle tear in her thigh brought a premature end to her 2011 season, as she missed out on defending her European indoor title. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100 m hurdles, reaching the semi-finals. At the 2014 European Championships , she reached the final, finishing in 8th place. Berings studied psychology . Following
551-776: The nine-day event on its channels – Eurosport 1 , Eurosport 2 and Eurosport App – including its platform Discovery+ on a non-exclusive basis in more than 45 countries across Europe, excluding the Nordics region – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden. Streaming is available on Discovery+ in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, UK and Ireland. In India, live streaming is available on JioCinema . 2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics , ( Japanese : 2007年世界陸上競技選手権大会 ) under
580-441: The only sprinter of non-African origin to clock sub-13 second 110m hurdles, took the gold medal at this event with a time of 12.95 seconds. World Record Holders for the 20 km Walk, Jefferson Pérez , and 50 km Walk, Nathan Deakes , both won their respective events, confirming their dominance of the event. In Perez's case, this was his third World Championship Gold Medal in a row. Host nation Japan gained its only medal on
609-452: The opening ceremony. Having bid unsuccessfully to host the 2008 Summer Olympics , Osaka was one of three cities to express an interest in hosting the 2007 World Championships alongside Budapest , Hungary and Berlin, Germany. By the IAAF's October 1, 2002 deadline, Budapest and Berlin had both withdrawn their bids, and Osaka was announced as the host city on November 15, 2002, as the sole remaining candidate. Berlin later bid successfully for
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#1732775472841638-409: The overall standings ahead of Kenya and Russia, equalling its best ever medal haul (first achieved in 1991 ) with 26, fourteen of them golds. The U.S. also set another Championship first by triumphing in all four relay races . These accomplishments were highlighted by three individual performances: Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix collected three gold medals each (Gay in the 100 and 200 metres and
667-500: The postponement of the 2023 World Relays to 2024 Nassau , for Covid-pandemic reasons, a modified qualification system has been available for relay teams. At the end of the qualification period, the 2023 World Athletics Rankings were published. They were used to invite additional athletes to the World Championships where the target number of athletes had not been achieved for that event through other methods of qualification. The maximum of three athletes per country in individual events
696-426: The rest of the team. After Dominique Arnold withdrew from the event with an injury, Payne only arrived in Japan the night before the heats, and proceeded to move through the rounds before taking bronze with a personal best. Amongst prominent European successes were Swede Carolina Klüft 's third consecutive world heptathlon title with a European record score, the victory of 39-year-old German Franka Dietzsch in
725-460: The sport, and had even predicted that a medallist at the event would be found to have taken a banned substance. Despite these fears, the IAAF announced that only one of the samples taken over the course of the Championships was "suspicious" and required more examination. The governing body refused to elaborate further until more was known, but the French hurdler Naman Keïta admitted to having failed
754-419: The start of the event, but with early-morning temperatures around 30 °C and humidity high, the IAAF maintained a colour-coded advisory scale warning of the risk of heat stroke . Casualties of the heat were not as high as initially feared, but dozens of athletes failed to finish the walks and marathons and a few did require medical treatment. Some athletes in shorter events blamed poor performances on
783-486: The streets were lined during the marathons), the hot weather and the disappointing performance of the Japanese team. IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe also suggested that the length of the Championships may have to be shortened in future to sustain the public's interest. Despite no world records being broken, the Championships saw a number of significant personal and team achievements. The United States dominated
812-449: Was eventually held in Osaka . The official mascot of the event is a Racka , called Youhuu. The championships were held in the National Athletics Centre in Budapest , which was specially built for this event, and has a provisional capacity of 36,000. World Athletics announced that athletes would qualify by their World Athletics Rankings position, wild card (reigning world champion or 2022 Diamond League winner) or by achieving
841-443: Was not affected by this rule. Member federations retained the right to confirm or reject athlete selections through this method. Where the highest ranked athletes were from a country that already had three entrants for the event, or where member federations had rejected an entrant, the next highest ranked athlete became eligible for entry via the world rankings. * Host nation ( Hungary ) * Indicates
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