LONDON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- World champions Dafine Schippers and Pawel Fajdek defended their titles on the eighth competition day at the London world championships here on Friday.
Dutch woman Schippers clocked a season best 22.05 seconds to retain the women's 200m title and Poland's Fajdek clinched his third world title in a run in 79.81 meters.
Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Cote d'Ivoire took the 200m silver following her second finish in the 100m with a time of 22.08. Shaunae Miller-Uibo was third in 22.15.
Whereas for American Brittney Reese, it was the chance to regain the long jump title and she did not waste it, winning in 7.02m after she bagged the gold medal three times in a row between 2009 and 2013.
Darya Klishina, one of the Russian athletes competing as authorised neutral athlete, took silver in a season-best 7 meters and another American Tianna Bartoletta finished third in 6.97.
In the women's 3,000 steeplechase, Olympic bronze medalist Emma Coburn of the United States cut nearly four seconds off the Championships record en route to winning in 9:02.58, beating the previous Championships record of 9:06.57 set by Russia's Yekaterina Volkova back in 2007.
The 26-year-old Coburn waited patiently behind world record holder Ruth Jebet of Bahrain and three Kenyan athletes, including defending champion Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi, for most of the race, before charging for the lead together with her teammate Courtney Frerichs in the final lap.
Frerichs took the silver medal in 9:03.77, which is a personal best for the 24-year-old. And the bronze medal went to Jepkemoi with a clocking of 9:04.03.
Jepkemoi's countrywoman Celliphine Chepteek Chespol clocked a world under-20 record of 9:15.04 to finish sixth.
