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Sizzling Schippers Steals Show on Seventh Day at Bejing’s World Championships - Kridangan Sports
Netherlands’s Dafne Schippers justified her decision to leave heptathlon aside for full track participation. After winning the 100m silver last Monday, the Dutch woman ran a race of her life to win the 200m gold on Friday. But more commendable than her victory was the time of 21.63 seconds, which made her the third fastest women to have run that distance. Now only Florence Griffith-Joyner with 21.34 and Marion Jones with 21.62 have better times than Schippers. Another event that highlighted the Beijing night on Friday was decathlon, in which USA’s 2012 Olympic and 2013 world champion Ashton Eaton took a 173 point lead over Canada’s Damian Warner. Barring unforeseen circumstances, Eaton should win the event on Saturday. Another dramatic result was delivered