Doha QATAR – After Saturday night’s electric races and 100m final events, we are back for an even more exciting day at the ongoing World IAAF Championships here. 

Five gold medals are on offer in women's pole vault, men's triple jump, 4x400m mixed relay, women's 100m, women's 20km walk on this, the third day of the Games. In the women's pole vault final later today, contender Holly Bradshaw (Great Britain), who has been mentioned as a medal contender ever since her breakthrough in 2012, will be up for it. 

Remember, because of a nightmare run of injuries, it took her until last summer in Berlin to win a first outdoor major medal - European championship bronze. Bradshaw will need to be on top of her game as this is one of the most stacked fields in the schedule, with the reigning world, Olympic and European champion Katerina Stefanidi (Greece) the star name.

America's two-time Olympic and world champion Christian Taylor has long been expected to be the man to break Jonathan Edwards' (Great Britain) world record of 18.29m in men’s triple jump. This year, however, has seen compatriot Will Claye move to third on the all-time list with a jump of 18.14m. Taylor has the opportunity to break a record that has stood for 24 years in today’s final.

The mixed 4x400m relay final (a new event) will make its global debut in Doha before its Olympic bow at Tokyo 2020. It was introduced at senior level at the 2017 World Relays and involves teams of two men and two women running a leg each in any order.

In the obvious highlight of the night, women's 100m, triple European champion Dina Asher-Smith will attempt to claim a first individual global medal outdoors. Asher-Smith's first World Championships medal was a relay bronze in 2013 when she was still just 17. Six years later, Asher-Smith will need to live with Jamaica's Olympic champion Elaine Thompson and compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. 

Two-time Olympic champion Fraser-Pryce took 2017 off to have her first child but has had an impressive return to form this summer - clocking 10.73sec, the same time with which she won World Championships gold in Berlin back in 2009. Thompson, who is equal fastest this season with Fraser-Pryce, will be looking to make it a world-Olympic double having triumphed in Rio.

And defending champion Tori Bowie of the USA, and Ivory Coast’s Talou are two to watch as well in the quest to find the fastest woman in the world.

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