Summary

  • GB's Mo Farah wins 10,000m world gold at London Stadium

  • Farah has won six world titles & four Olympic golds - all in row

  • Usain Bolt wins 100m heat in 10:07 to reach semi-finals on Saturday

  • Bolts says performance was 'very bad'

  • Gatlin booed after winning heat five

  • GB's Prescod, Ujah & Dasaolu qualify

  • Laura Muir one of four Brits to qualify for 1500m semis

  • GB's Holly Bradshaw qualifies for pole vault final

Live Reporting

Mike Henson

  1. Bolt hits the heats

    100m heats (20:20 BST)

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    They have front-loaded the star attractions at this world championships.

    Also in opening-day action, is athletics' salesperson of the year for the last decade - Usain Bolt.

    The 30-year-old apparently wanted to call it quits on his career last summer at Rio, but his sponsor suggested that a London farewell might suit everyone better.

    The 11-time world champion gets the 100m show on the road with heats from 20:20 BST.

    The schedulers strategy seems to have worked. More than 660,000 tickets have been sold for the 10 days of action a week before tonight's start

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  2. Mo's ready for his big moment

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  3. Watch: The secrets of Mo's training regime

    Apparently no-one's fit enough to pace Mo Farah. So what does he do? Find out here....

    'I do 120 miles a week' - Farah on the sacrifices of being a champion

  4. The quintuple-double

    10,000m final (21:20 BST)

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    How he has delivered on that promise.

    The 34-year-old is lining up a quintuple-double - if that is such a thing - aiming to reel in both the 5000m and 10,000m titles at a major championships for a fifth time after distance glory at London 2012, Moscow 2013, Beijing 2015 and Rio 2016.

    Tonight is the first test of whether his 34-year-old legs still can beat the world's best in the heat and kick of a top-level final.

    The 10,000m final concludes the opening night of action from the World Championships at 21:20 BST.

  5. Graduating from Oxford

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    6 May 2004.

    Fifty years to the day since Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier.

    Bannister is back at the low-key Iffley Road track in Oxford where he entered history for a special commemorative race.

    Australian Craig Mottram is the winner in a track record time of 3:56.64.

    Looking a little sheepish to his left is a 21-year-old relative unknown.

    "Mo Farah, one of Britain's brightest hopes for the future, finished second in a time of 4:00.17," notes the BBC Sport report of the day.