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10:30 AM: Men's 100 meters (B final)

Marcus BRUNSON
IAAF World Rank: #5

Nester CARTER
Currently tied for sixth in the World Athletics Tour standings

also:
Dariusz KUC
Bernard WILLIAMS
Kim COLLINS
Johan ENGBERG
Jaysuma Saidy NDURE
Xavier CARTER

10:45 AM: Men's 400 meters (B final)

Alleyne FRANCIQUE
IAAF World Rank: #5

also:
Andreas MOKDASI
Thomas NIKITIN
Talkmore NYANGANI
Fredrik JOHANSSON
Tyree WASHINGTON
Paul MCKEE

11:30 AM: Women's 100 meters (B final)

Stephanie DURST
IAAF World Rank: #5
currenlty tied for seventh in the WAT standings

Malin STRÖM
Emma RIENAS
Shelly Ann FRASIER
Mechelle LEWIS
Tahesia HARRIGAN

12:30 PM: Men's 800 meters

Mbulaeni MULAUDZI
IAAF World Rank: #1
currently fourth in the WAT standings (a win would move him to first)

also:
Richard KIPLAGAT
Eugenio BARRIOS
Michael RIMMER
Mattias CLAESSON
Arnoud OKKEN
Dmitrijs MILKEVICS
Mohcine CHEHIBI

12:35 PM: Men's Triple Jump

Jadel GREGORIO
IAAF World Rank: #2
currently second in the WAT standings

Aarik WILSON
IAAF World Rank: #3
current WAT standings leader

Marian OPREA
IAAF World Rank: #4

Randy LEWIS
IAAF World Rank: #12
currently sixth in the WAT standings

Leevand SANDS
currently fifth in the WAT standings

also:
Anton ANDERSSON
Tarik BOUTAYEB
notable absence: Christian Olsson

12:35 PM: Women's Pole Vault

Monika PYREK
IAAF World Rank: #2
currently fifth in the WAT standings (first or second would move her into second place, provided she beats Feofanova)

Fabiana MURER
IAAF World Rank: #3

Jennifer STUCZYNSKI
IAAF World Rank: #4
currently ninth in the WAT standings

Svetlana FEOFANOVA
IAAF World Rank: #5
currently sixth in the WAT standings (a win would move her to second place)

Yulia GOLUBCHIKOVA
IAAF World Rank: #6 (tie)
currently second in the WAT standings

Katerina BADUROVA
IAAF World Rank: #8
currently third in the WAT standings

Shuying GAO
IAAF World Rank: #11

Caroline HINGST
currently tenth in the WAT standings

also:
Hanna-Mia PERSSON
Chelsea JOHNSON

12:40 PM: Women's 100 meters (A final)

Sherone SIMPSON
IAAF World Rank: #1

Me'Lisa BARBER
IAAF World Rank: #3

Kim GEVAERT
IAAF World Rank: #4

Debbie FERGUSON
IAAF World Rank: #6

Sheri-Ann BROOKS
IAAF World Rank: #9 (tie)

Brianna GLENN
currently tenth in the WAT standings

also:
Angela WILLIAMS
Kerron STEWART
Sanya RICHARDS (PR: 11.34)

12:45 PM: Men's High Jump

Stefan HOLM
IAAF World Rank: #2
currently second in the WAT standings

Linus THÖRNBLAD
IAAF World Rank: #3

Tomas JANKU
IAAF World Rank: #5
currently third in the WAT standings

Jesse WILLIAMS
IAAF World Rank: #6 (tie)
current WAT standings leader

Donald THOMAS
IAAF World Rank: #6 (tie)
currently seventh in the WAT standings

Germaine MAISON
currently fourth in the WAT standings

also:
Yuriy KRYMARENKO
Vyacheslav VORONIN
Jim DILLING

12:50 PM: Men's 400 meters (A final)
Jeremy WARINER
IAAF World Rank: #1
Currently fifth in the WAT standings (a win would move him to second)

Andrew ROCK
IAAF World Rank: #9

Sanjay AYRE
IAAF World Rank: #12
Currently fourth in the WAT standings

Darold WILLIAMSON
currently sixth in the WAT standings

also:
Lewis BANDA
Ricardo CHAMBERS
Kerron CLEMENT
Johan WISSMAN

1:00 PM: Men's 100 meters (A final)

Asafa POWELL
IAAF World Rank: #1

Derrick ATKINS
IAAF World Rank: #3
Currently leads the WAT standings

Francis OBIKWELU
IAAF World Rank: #4
Currently third in the WAT standings (needs fifth or better to move to second)

Churandy MARTINA
IAAF World Rank: #8
Currently fourth in the WAT standings (two points behind Obikwelu)

Michael FRATER
IAAF World Rank: #12

also:
Leroy DIXON
JJ JOHNSON
Samuel FRANCIS
notable absence: Tyson Gay

1:05 PM: Men's Javelin Throw

Andreas THORKILDSEN
IAAF World Rank: #1
current WAT standings leader

Magnus ARVIDSSON
IAAF World Rank: #5
currently fourth in the WAT standings

Sergey MAKAROV
IAAF World Rank: #6

Aleksandr IVANOV
IAAF World Rank: #8

Eriks RAGS
IAAF World Rank: #9
currently seventh in the WAT standings

Teemu WIRKKALA
currently eighth in the WAT standings

also:
Daniel RAGNVALDSSON
Jarrod BANNISTER
Gabriel WALLIN
Jarkko KOSKI-VÄHÄLÄ

1:10 PM: Women's 5000 meters

Christin JOHANSSON
Sara SLATTERY
Katie MCGREGOR
Zakia MRISHO
Renee METIVIER
Sylvia KIBET
Jennifer RHINES
Linet MASAI
Eloise WELLINGS
Jelena PROKOPCUKA
Lauren FLESHMAN
Steph TWELL
Deena KASTOR
Olga KOMYAGINA

1:25 PM: Women's High Jump

Blanka VLASIC
IAAF World Rank: #1
Current WAT standings leader

Tia HELLEBAUT
IAAF World Rank: #2
currently fourth in the WAT standings

Kajsa BERGQVIST
IAAF World Rank: #3
currently third in the WAT standings

Amy ACUFF
IAAF World Rank: #7
currently fifth in the WAT standings

Nicole FORRESTER
IAAF World Rank: #9 (tie)

Anna CHICHEROVA
IAAF World Rank: #9 (tie)

also:
Deidre RYAN
Ebba JUNGMARK
Emma GREEN
Viktoria STYOPINA

1:45 PM: Men's 110m Hurdles

Anwar MOORE
IAAF World Rank: #4
currently leads the WAT standings

Aries MERRITT
IAAF World Rank: #6
currently seventh in the WAT standings

David PAYNE
IAAF World Rank: #8
currently second in the WAT standings

Ryan WILSON
IAAF World Rank: #10
currently third in the WAT standings

Ron BRAMLETT
IAAF World Rank: #11
currently eighth in the WAT standings

also:
Robby HUGHES
Robert KRONBERG

2:00 PM: Men's 1000 meters

Tarek BOUKENSA
IAAF World Rank: #3 (1500m)

Bernard LAGAT
IAAF World Rank: #5 (1500m)

Gary REED
IAAF World Rank: #7 (800m)

Ali Bilal MANSOOR
IAAF World Rank: #7 (1500m)

Abdlaati IGUIDER
IAAF World Rank: #9 (1500m)

also:
Rizak DIRSHE
Alvaro FERNANDEZ
Yassine BENSGHIR
Steph TWELL
Edwin LETTING
Andrew BADDELEY
Philemon KIMUTAI
Jeffrey RISELEY
Sammy TANGUI

2:05 PM: Women's Long Jump

Oksana UDMURTOVA
IAAF World Rank: #7
currently third in the WAT standings (a top-seven finish will move her to second place)

Kumiko IKEDA
IAAF World Rank: #8
current WAT standings leader

Grace UPSHAW
currently fifth in the WAT standings

Malgorzata TRYBANSKA
currently sixth in the WAT standings

Rose RICHMOND
currently tied for seventh in the WAT standings

Carolina KLÜFT
a win could move her into second in the WAT standings

also:
Karen MEY
Bianca KAPPLER

2:15 PM: Men's 200 meters

Jaysuma Saidy NDURE
IAAF World Rank: #9
Currently fourth in the WAT standings (a win would move him to first)

JJ JOHNSON (doubling back from 100m)
currently sixth in the WAT standings

Brian DZINGAI
currently tied for ninth in the WAT standings

also:
Ricardo WILLIAMS
Bernard WILLIAMS (doubling back from 100m)
Clement CAMPBELL
Patrick JOHNSON (doubling back from 100m C final)
Marcin JEDRUSINSKI


2:25 PM: Men's Steeplechase

Paul Kipsiele KOECH
IAAF World Rank: #1
currently leads the WAT standings

Mustafa MOHAMED
IAAF World Rank: #6

Tareq Mubarak TAHER
IAAF World Rank: #10

Reuben KOSGEI
currently fifth in the WAT standings

Steve SLATTERY
currently ninth in the WAT standings

Mike KIPYEGO
currently tenth in the WAT standings

also:
Yoshitaka IWAMIZU
Henrik SKOOG
Abdellatif CHEMLAL
Youcef ABDI
Per JACOBSEN
Günther WEIDLINGER
Kamal Ali ABUBAKER
Hamid EZZINE
Luis Miguel MARTIN
Collins KOSGEI
John LANGAT

2:50 PM: Women's 100m hurdles

Michelle PERRY
IAAF World Rank: #1
current WAT standings leader

Susanna KALLUR
IAAF World Rank: #2
currently third in the WAT standings

Lolo JONES
IAAF World Rank: #5
currently second in the WAT standings

Danielle CARRUTHERS
IAAF World Rank: #12
currently ninth in the WAT standings

Josephine ONYIA
currently fourth in the WAT standings

also:
Aurelia TRYWIANSKA
Dawn HARPER
Jenny KALLUR

3:05 PM: Men's 3000 meters (will be a record attempt)

Kenenisa BEKELE
IAAF World Rank: #1
currently third in the WAT standings (any position in the top seven moves him to first, provided he beats Songok by two or more places)

Edwin SOI
IAAF World Rank: #4

Micah KOGO
IAAF World Rank: #7

Jonas CHERUIYOT
IAAF World Rank: #8
currently sixth in the WAT standings

Boniface SONGOK
IAAF World Rank: #9
currently fourth in the WAT standings

Matt TEGENKAMP
IAAF World Rank: #13

also:
Thomas LONGOSIWA
Chris SOLINSKY
Erik SJÖQVIST
Manuel PENAS
Kevin SULLIVAN
Ali MAATAOUI
Remmy Limo NDIWA
Shadrack KOSGEI
Musir Salem JAWHER
Ed MORAN
Sahle Warga BETONA
Edwin KIPKORIR
Robert SIGEI
Bernard KIPTUM
Churchill KIPSANG

3:15 PM: Women's 400 meters
The most loaded event of the day

Sanya RICHARDS
doubling back from 100m
IAAF World Rank: #1
current WAT standings leader

Novlene WILLIAMS
IAAF World Rank: #2
currently third in the WAT standings

Mbake Amy TIAM
IAAF World Rank: #3
currently second in the WAT standings

Dee Dee TROTTER
IAAF World Rank: #4
currently seventh in the WAT standings

Shericka WILLIAMS
IAAF World Rank: #6
currently fourth in the WAT standings

Natasha HASTINGS
IAAF World Rank: #9
currently eleventh in the WAT standings (anything but last moves her to eighth)

Mary WINEBERG
IAAF World Rank: #10
currently sixth in the WAT standings

Allyson FELIX
currently fifth in the WAT standings (a top-five finish moves her to fourth)

3:35 PM: Men's 4x100m relay
This is one of the qualifying meets for the Worlds

USA (38.25)
POLAND (38.62)
JAMAICA (38.75)
SWITZERLAND (39.31)
NETHERLANDS (39.35)
QATAR
SWEDEN, U23
FINLAND