Overview

• Germany’s 4x100m women clocked 41.86 seconds for the third-best qualifying time and the men advanced in 38.12 seconds, both into Sunday’s finals in Tokyo.
• Major relay shocks reshaped the fields as Jamaica’s men failed to finish the 4x100m heat and the USA’s men were eliminated in the 4x400m.
• Olympic shot put champion Yemisi Ogunleye placed sixth with 19.33 metres, as Jessica Schilder won gold ahead of Chase Jackson and Maddison-Lee Wesche.
• Breakthroughs in the combined events continued with Sandrina Sprengel fifth in the heptathlon on a 6,434-point PB, while Leo Neugebauer and Niklas Kaul stayed in decathlon medal range after day one.
• The IOC formally reassigned the Sochi 2014 men’s biathlon relay gold to Germany after Evgeny Ustjugov’s results were annulled, elevating Erik Lesser, Daniel Böhm, Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp.