DAEGU, South Korea, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. runner Jason Richardson won the 110-meter hurdles Monday at the 2011 IAAF World Championships after Olympic champion Dayron Robles was disqualified.
Robles, the 2008 Olympics gold medalist in the event, was disqualified after finishing first in the race. Liu Xiang said he was pulled by Robles late in the race and officials agreed, eliminating Robles.
Richardson was moved up to first after he finished in 13.16 seconds. Liu was second at 13.27 and Great Britain's Andrew Turner, who finished in 13.44, was given the bronze.
U.S. sprinter Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100-meter dash in 10.90 seconds, with Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown second in 10.97 and Kelly-Anne Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago third in 10.98.
Amantle Montsho won Botswana's first gold medal, taking the 400 meters in 49.56. American Allyson Felix won the silver in 49.59, with the bronze going to Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, who was timed in 50.24.
Valeria Adams of New Zealand won the women's shot put with a throw of 21.24 meters. The silver medal went to Bulgaria's Nadzeya Ostapchuk (20.05) and Jillian Camarena-Williams was third at 20.02.
Japan's Koji Murofushi was first in the men's hammer throw, with a distance of 81.24 meters, just better than the 81.18 of Hungary's Krisztian Pars, with Slovenia's Primoz Kozmus third at 79.39.
Pawel Wojciechowski of Poland took the men's pole vault gold, clearing 5.90. Cuba's Lazaro Borges, who also made 5.90, won the silver medal and French vaulter Renaud Lavillenie, who went out at 5.85, was third.
IAAF -- the International Association of Athletics Federations -- is the international organization overseeing track and field.
