Day three highlights for the IAAF World Championships: Kenya's Geoffrey Kirui wins men's world marathon

6:40pm Bahrain's Rose Chelimo wins women's world marathon

Kenyan-born Bahraini Rose Chelimo edged veteran Edna Kiplagat to win the women's marathon at the IAAF World Championships on Sunday.

Kiplagat hit 40km a second ahead, but Chelimo kicked in the last 2km to win Bahrain's first medal in the event in 2hr 27min 11sec.

5:05pm LIVE IAAF World Championships London

Women's Marathon Underway. Edna Kiplagat among the leading pack. She is chasing her 3rd World Title.

4:30 pm Kenyan Sprinter Maximilla Imali fails to qualify for 400m Semifinals

Kenyan Sprinter Maximilla Imali race on the global stage ended in shock as she failed to qualify for the semifinals of the women's 400m race after finishing seventh at the 2017 IAAF World Championships.

4:00pm Kenya's Geoffrey Kirui wins men's world marathon

Kenya's Geoffrey Kirui won the men's marathon at the IAAF World Championships on Sunday.

Kirui, this season's Boston marathon winner, clocked 2hr 08min 27sec for gold, 1min 22sec ahead of Ethiopian rival Tamirat Tola.

Alphonse Simbu of Tanzania claimed bronze, just 2sec adrift of Tola.

3:40pm 3,000m Steeplechase: Birech, Kipruto and Kemboi advance to final

Kenya won the last five world 3,000m steeplechase titles, going to the final, Olympics champion Conseslus Kipruto who has been struggling with an ankle injury this season won third heat in a time 8:23.80 to progress to the final.

Ezekiel kemboi who is looking for his fifth world title in London and Jairus Birech, the former two-time Diamond League trophy winner also entered the final while 2007 gold medallist Brimin Kipruto failed to make the final after finishing only seventh in heat three.

3:17pm Women's 100m semi-finals and final

25-year-old Elaine Thompson may lack the charisma of her fellow Usain Bolt but she looks set to dominate the sprints like he has done. Elaine is the hot favourite to add world gold over 100m and looked in good shape in her heat.

2:00pm Men's 110m hurdles heats

31-year-old America's 2012 Olympic champion and world record holder Aries Merritt  narrowly failed to make last year's Olympic team but is a serious contender here having won well at last month's London Diamond League meeting -- the same stadium where he won the Olympic gold.

 However, he faces a tough challenge to win world gold in the shape of Jamaica's Olympic champion Omar McLeod. Merritt sets out on what could be a remarkable fairytale as he faces his first global competition since undergoing a kidney transplant in 2015.

12:00pm Men's shot put final

US duo Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs, the top two from the Rio Olympics last year, seem set for another top-of-the-podium battle.

11:00am Women's pole vault final

Qualification saw American Jennifer Suhr, gold medallist at the London Olympics, crash out after three no jumps. That has left the path clear for Olympic and European champion Ekaterina Stefanidi, the Greek having topped qualification with 4.61m to underline her season credentials - unbeaten in seven outdoor meetings. Also in the running could be American Sandi Morris, the Olympic silver medallist who cleared 5m at the end of last season.

10:00am Women's heptathlon

Belgium's Olympic champion Nafi Thiam trails Germany's Carolin Schafer by 22 points going into the second day of competition in the heptathlon. The Belgian will look to up the ante in the long jump, javelin and 800m.

12am Justin Gatlin beats Usain Bolt to win 100m world title

Justin Gatlin stuns Usain Bolt to win 100m world title with teammate Christian Coleman winning silver in 9.94sec. Bolt suffers a dreadful start and could only claim bronze in 9.95sec.

11pm Bolt advance to 100m semis

Usain Bolt took his first, somewhat stuttering, steps towards what he hopes will be a glorious World Championship farewell on Friday when he recovered from a poor start to win his heat in the first round of the 100 metres in 10.07 seconds.