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Jessica Ennis added World Indoor Pentathlon Gold to the world title she won last year with a supreme performance in Doha and Dwain Chambers made it a double celebration for British athletics with victory in the 60 Metres.

Ennis made the perfect start to the five-event competition with a time of 8.04 seconds in the 60 Metres Hurdles.

The Sheffield athlete backed up her effort in hurdles with a leap of 1.90 metres - the only woman to clear the height - in the High Jump.

The Shot Put is not one of Ennis' best events but she was able to post a season's best of 14.01. It was good enough for fifth place, but Natallia Dobrynska cut her overall lead to 18 with an effort of 16.43.

With the pressure on, Ennis upped her quality in the Long Jump and a personal best of 6.44m placed her in total command ahead of the final event - the 800m - as Dobrynska finished 11cms adrift in an event won by Tatyana Chernova with an excellent 6.62.

Ennis had a buffer heading into the 800m but she set out to make no mistake as she dominated from the front. Karolina Tyminska ran past Ennis at the bell, but the Brit came home in second to take the gold in a championship record of 4437.

She fell 54 points short of the record, something Ennis was aware of. "I knew the world record was there and I gave it everything by taking the race on from the front but it just wasn't to be," Ennis said. "Karolina went past me and I think she was trying to drag me through for the time but I'm delighted with the gold medal."

After cruising through his semi-final, Chambers was beaten out of the blocks in the final by Mike Rodgers and the Brit had running to do in the final 30 metres. But once he got into his stride, Chambers surged clear in a time of 6.48 - the fastest in the world this year.

Novlene Williams-Mills stumbled out of the race at the bell and this left the path clear for Debbie Dunn to take gold in the 400 Metres, while Deresse Mekonnen glided through late in the home straight to claim the 1500 Metres.

Lolo Jones struck gold with a scintillating run in the 60 Metres Hurdled, the American dashed clear to win in 7.72 , while Chris Brown of the Bahamas posted a season's best 45.96 to land the 400 Metres.

Bryan Clay produced a fine finishing spurt in the 1000 Metres to claim gold from fellow American Trey Hardee in the Heptathlon. Hardee needed to finish over four seconds ahead of his rival to take gold and held that advantage as one stage, but Clay finished well to claim the gold.

Ethiopia's Meseret Defar's sprinted away from her rivals in the final 200 to claim her fourth consecutive title in the 3000 Metres.

Christian Cantwell secured gold in the Shot Put, Australia's Steven Hooker was in a league of his own, clearing 6.01m, to win the Pole Vault, and Olga Rypakova took Triple Jump gold.

Andrew Osagie produced a brave run in the semi-finals of the 800 metres but his fourth place, just 0.04 of a second behind Ismail Ahmed Ismail, saw him miss out on a place in the final. Abubaker Kaki tookl the first heat with an impressive time of 1:46.45.

The British team of Conrad Williams, Nigel Levine, Luke Lennon-Ford, Christopher Clarke were among the fastest losers in the heats of the 4x400 Metres and will have to up their game if they are to trouble the Americans and Jamaica.

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