Overview

• The German women clocked 41.86 seconds to qualify third overall for Sunday’s 4x100m final.
• Germany’s men advanced in 38.12 seconds as Jamaica and Great Britain exited after botched exchanges.
• The United States failed to reach the men’s 4x400m final, finishing sixth in their heat in 3:01.06.
• Heptathlete Sandrina Sprengel finished fifth with a personal-best 6,434 points, including a 51.66m javelin best.
• After day one of the decathlon, Leo Neugebauer sits fourth with 4,455 points, 32 off bronze, and Niklas Kaul is eighth with the leaders Kyle Garland and Sander Skotheim.