American Chase Ealey efficiently defended her ladies’s shot put crown on the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, successful her second successive gold medal. Ealey produced her season-best throw in her fifth try and win the gold with a 20.43 metres effort whereas Canada’s Sarah Mitton took the silver with 20.08.

Ealey shortly grew to become the recent favorite when she laid down an early marker with a 20.35 metre throw on her first try and the 29-year-old quickly grew to become the one lady to breach the 20-metre mark a number of occasions within the remaining. China’s Gong Lijiao, who’s competing at her ninth consecutive world championships, was chasing her eighth successive medal and he or she clinched bronze after producing a throw of 19.69, pipping Portugal’s Auriol Dongmo on countback.

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