Fraser crowned sprint queen

Shelly-Ann Fraser followed in the footsteps of Usain Bolt when clinching the 100 metres title for Jamaica.

"The victory is no surprise for me and the time neither," said Fraser, who clocked a German all-comers' record of 10.79sec in her semi-final.

"It was clear that the final was going to be even faster. I left all the world behind me down there on the track."

Fraser roared ahead of the field at the halfway point to win by two-hundredths-of-a-second in a world leading time for the year of 10.73seconds from team-mate Kerron Stewart who shared the Olympic silver with the absent Sherone Simpson.

American Carmelita Jeter prevented another clean sweep of the medals by the Caribbean nation when beating Veronica Campbell-Brown the defending champion across the line by 0.05sec in 10.90sec.

Kenenisa Bekele scored a fourth successive 10,000m victory in traditional style when speeding away over the final lap to win in a championship record time of 26min 46.31sec.

The Ethiopian, who cut over three seconds from the mark he set in Paris six years, was followed home by Eritrea's Zersenay Tadesse, the only man to offer him a challenge who clocked 26min 50.12sec with Moses Masai of Kenya third in 26min 57.39sec.

Gulnara Galkina, the Russian Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion and world record holder, also failed to produce the form she displayed in Beijing when blown away by her rivals and finishing fourth.

Galkina fell off the pace over the final circuit as Spain's Marta Dominguez a two-times former European 5000m gold medallist, scored a shock victory in nine 07.32 seconds.

Yargeris Savigne defended her triple jump title with a winning leap of 14.95m ahead of fellow Cuban Mabel Gay and Russia's Anna Pyatykh who cleared 14.61m and 14.58m.

Olympic champion Primoz Kozmus dominated the hammer throw and after taking the lead with an effort of 79.74 metres in round two produced a season's best of 80.84m with his last attempt.

Kozmus, winner of Slovenia's first ever gold medal in Beijing last summer, finished ahead of Poland's former Olympic and world champion Szymon Ziolkowski and Russia's Aleksey Zagornyi who threw 79.30m and 78.09m.