Day 2 of Worlds

In the women's 1500m, Kampf takes an unfortunate fall in the final, so she doesn't get to take full advantage of her surprise appearance in the finals. Aregawi completely dominates the field running away with it in a time of 4:00.61 to take the win by an unreal 6.5 seconds! Truly dominate performance, it's a shame we didn't get to see an Aregawi Dibaba battle for the ages. Perhaps outdoors we will get to see it unfold. Moser for the US was in the chase pack the whole way but couldn't quite close over the final 200m and ran a time of 4:07.84 (an indoor PR) which was good enough for just 6th place overall, about 7 tenths of a second off 2nd place. If Cain was in the race, I have to believe she could have taken down second without much issue. It would have been more of a question of how much, if it all, she could have challenged Aregawi and changed the dynamic of the race. Oh well.

EDIT #3: A slew of DQs has moved Moser up to 4th in the race now with the same mark. A lot of pushing and shoving going on in the race led to some aftermath DQs that allowed Moser to sneak up and just miss a medal. Sifuentes from Canada finishes 3rd and Embaye finishes 2nd in these most updated results.

EDIT: Ashton Eaton closed out the Hep with a 2:34 1k closing down in about 28 seconds, but unfortunately he just missed his own world record in the Hep (coming up about 1 second short in the final event). Overall Eaton gets an easy Gold and continues his dominance of the Hep indoors. I believe he has something like the top 3 or 4 times ever indoors for the Hep. Congrats to Ashton on another gold and another fantastic series of events!

EDIT #2: In the Men's 1500m, Souleiman of Djibouti led wire to wire, holding the pole position despite a few moves from the likes of Bergen and Wote. His positioning was key on the last few laps as he was able to charge up and take down the Gold against the field. Wote was able to hold on with a nice finish of his own to take second, a little ways behind Souleiman's 3:37 was his own 3:38. The defending champion and former 2012 olympic bronze medalist Iguider took another bronze is this race holding off Nick Willis on the final straight. Will Leer of the US hung in last place for essentially the whole race which was bold strategy in a world class field like this. Leer ended up moving up a decent chunk and picking off two guys in the final 40m or so but was just way too far out of it to be a factor. He finished 7th of the 9 men in the field utilizing that home stretch  kick. With this event in the book, no more distance finals to come on the day, tomorrow will feature both 3ks and both 800ms!