Dai Greene wins Britain’s first gold at world championships in 400m hurdles

• Welsh hurdler leaves it late to seal victory in 400m hurdles • Puerto Rico’s Javier Culson takes silver, LJ van Zyl is third Dai Greene left it late in the 400m hurdles to seal Great Britain’s first gold of the world championships. The Welsh hurdler was fourth coming over the penultimate barrier of the race, but surged down the back straight to seal victory in the final few strides ahead of Javier Culson of Puerto Rico. South African LJ van Zyl was third. After a delayed start to the race in Daegu – the field were shown a green card due to a faulty start – Greene kept his cool and crossed the line in a time of 48.26sec. The 25-year-old adds the world title to his European and Commonwealth titles won in 2010, and could add more silverware to his collection in the 4x400m relay. Greene becomes Britain’s fifth medallist of the event, and his result lifts Team GB into fourth in the medals table behind the United States, Russia and Kenya. Mo Farah (10,000m), Jessica Ennis (Heptathlon) and Hannah England all secured silvers, while Andrew Turner took a bronze in the 110m hurdles, but on day six of the championships Britain finally struck gold for the first time. Men’s 400m hurdles result 1 Dai Greene GBR 48.26 2 Javier Culson PUR 48.44 3 L.J. van Zyl RSA 48.80 4 Felix Sánchez DOM 48.87 5 Cornel Fredericks RSA 49.12 6 Bershawn Jackson USA 49.24 7 Angelo Taylor USA 49.31 8 Aleksandr Derevyagin RUS World Athletics Championships 2011 Athletics World Athletics Championships John Ashdown guardian.co.uk

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