PRAGUE — Britain's Richard Kilty made a fine addition to his world indoor gold as he won the 60-meter race at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague Sunday. Kilty clocked 6.51sec as he beat Germany's Christian Blum (6.58) and Julian Reus (6.60). He was the only Briton running in the finals after Chijindu Ujah had been disqualified for a false start. Sean Safo-Antwi failed to reach the finals by a hundredth of a second. Dafne Schippers equaled this year's world-leading time of 7.05sec to take 60m gold. Britain's 19-year-old sprinter Dina Asher-Smith equaled the British record at 7.08sec to come second ahead of Germany's Verena Sailer, the 2010 European outdoor champion (7.09). Russian high jumper Daniyil Tsyplakov took the honors ahead of Italy's Silvano Chesani and Greece's Adonios Mastoras who shared second with all three clearing 2.31m. Poland's Marcin Lewandowski took gold in the men's 800m at 1min 46.67sec ahead of Ireland's Mark English and Thijmen Kupers of the Netherlands. Selina Buechel of Switzerland won women's 800m in 2min 01.95sec, beating Olympic bronze medalist Yekaterina Poistogova from Russia and defending champion Nataliya Lupu from Ukraine. The home crowd went crazy when Jakub Holusa edged past Turkey's Ilham Tanui Ozbilen in a nerve-wracking finish to take the 1,500m gold in a national record of 3min 37.68sec. Britain's Chris O'Hare was third. Dutch runner Sifan Hassan lost nine seconds against her world-leading time but won the women's 1,500m comfortably in 4min 09.04sec after taking a massive lead from the start. Russia's Ilya Shkurenyov won the heptathlon with a world-leading 6,353 points, beating Arthur Abele of Germany and Dutch defending champion Eelco Sintnicolaas. Adding to Russian joy, Yekaterina Koneva dominated the women's triple jump with a world-leading 14.69m ahead of Gabriela Petrova from Bulgaria and Hanna Knyazyeva from Israel. And Anzhelika Sidorova of Russia won women's pole vault gold in 4.80m ahead of Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi and Sweden's Angelica Bengtsson. The gold in the final 4x400m relays went to Belgium with the three Borlee brothers, and to French women. On Saturday, Renaud Lavillenie proved his class again by winning a fourth straight pole vault title. The Frenchman vaulted 5.75 and 5.90 meters to leave behind the field. He cleared a year-best 6.04 at his second attempt for the championship record. Then he tried 6.17, 0.01 higher than the world indoor record he set a year ago, but he failed in his three attempts. Russia's Aleksandr Gripich took the silver medal, and Poland's Piotr Lisek claimed the bronze after both cleared 5.85. In the men's triple jump, the 2008 Olympic champion Nelson Evora of Portugal won with 17.21m, 0.17 ahead of Pablo Torrijos of Spain. Romania's Marian Oprea was third. Home favorite Pavel Maslak was the fastest in the men's 400m. Nataliya Pyhyda of Ukraine was first in the women's 400, with Indira Terrero of Spain second. Mariya Kuchina of Russia won the women's high jump after clearing 1.97. In the 3,000, Turkey's Ali Kaya won the men's race, and Russia's Yelena Korobkina the women's. Ivana Spanovic of Serbia took gold in the women's long jump with a leap of 6.98m, and Anita Marton of Hungary had the best throw of 19.23 meters in the women's shot put. Diniz sets 20km walk record France's Yohann Diniz set a new world record of one hour 17.02 minutes in the 20km walk at the French national championships Sunday. Already world record holder in the 50km (3hr 32.33min) since 2014, Diniz bettered the previous 20km best of 1hr 17.16min set in September 2007 by Russia's Vladimir Kanaykin in the Russian city of Saransk. — Agencies
