The best images from Beijing including Mo Farah’s ‘triple-double’, the second half of the men’s decathlon as well as the finals of the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay
  • Athletes compete in the men’s 50 km race walk final.
    Athletes compete in the men’s 50km race walk final
  • The athletes move out on to the streets of Beijing outside the Bird’s Nest stadium
  • Martin Tistan cools down as it’s rather hot out there
    Martin Tistan cools down as it’s rather hot out there
  • Competitors go through a cooling mist
    Competitors go through a cooling mist
  • Tadas Suskevicius also attempts to cool down
    Tadas Suskevicius also attempts to cool down
  • Yordani Garcia falls in the decathlon 110m hurdles
  • Runners wait for the handover in the Women’s 4x400m Relay heats
    Runners wait for the handover in the women’s 4x400m relay heats
  • Left to right: Japan’s Kana Ichikawa, Bahamas’s Christine Amertil, Britain’s Anyika Onuora and USA’s Jessica Beard run with the baton toward their waiting team-mates in the qualifying round of the women’s 4x400m relay
  • Phyllis Francis, right, hands with baton to her American team-mate Jessica Beard
    Phyllis Francis, right, hands the baton to her American team-mate Jessica Beard
  • Vernon Norwood takes the baton from Bryshon Nellum in their qualifying round of the men’s 4x400m relay
  • Solomon Bockarie of the Netherlands and Nesta Carter of Jamaica change over to Patrick Van Luijk and Asafa Powell
  • Ashton Eaton competes in the Men’s Decathlon Pole Vault
    Ashton Eaton competes in the decathlon pole vault
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  • Adam Sebastian Helcelet fails on a jump in the pole vault in the men’s decathlon
    Adam Sebastian Helcelet fails on a jump in the pole vault in the decathlon
  • Larbi Bourrada competes in the javelin event of the decathlon
  • Blanka Vlasic stands confidently astride on the mat after a successful high jump
    Blanka Vlasic stands confidently astride on the mat after successfully clearing 2.01m in the high jump, a season’s best jump after coming back from injury
  • However she was denied victory by Maria Kuchina, who also jumped 2.01, a personal best, but who took gold courtesy of the fact that unlike Vlasic, she hadn’t failed any jumps in previous rounds
  • Rababe Arafi, left, lies on the track beside Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, centre, and Renelle Lamote after the women’s 800m final
  • Someone who’s not resting after the finish is Marina Arzamasova, as she’s off celebrating her 800m gold medal
  • Mo Farah leads the field in the men’s 5,000m final
  • However, Commonwealth champion Caleb Ndiku went to the front before the bell and stretched his lead away down the back straight. But as the field splintered Farah first hung on and then, coming off the final bend, surged past Ndiku to go away for glory
  • Farah, right, play boxes with Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku after the race
    Farah, right, play-boxes with Ndiku after the race
  • Farah drapes himself in the union flag …
  • … as he celebrates his victory
  • Farah has become the first man in history to pull off a distance ‘triple-double’. Not only has he won three successive world 5,000m titles, he has a historic ‘triple-double’ of 5,000m and 10,000m golds at London 2012, Moscow 2013 and Beijing 2015
  • Farah celebrates with some selfies with the fans
    Farah celebrates with some selfies with the fans
  • Even when on the podium he can’t resist goofing around
    Even on the podium he can’t resist goofing around
  • Then gets a congratulatory hug from Usain Bolt
  • Daniel Stahl competes in the final of the men’s discus
  • Gold medallist Ashton Eaton, top left, lies on the track with Kurt Felix, left, Larbi Bourrada, right, and Kai Kazmirek, front centre, after finishing the last event of the decathlon, the 1,500m
  • Eaton, front centre, celebrates with bronze medallist Rico Freimuth, front left, and silver medallist Damian Warner, front right, and the rest of the decathlon athletes after finishing their 10 events
  • Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce crosses the finish line to win gold in the women’s 4x100m relay final
  • The Jamaican team won in 41.07 seconds, a championship record, Fraser-Pryce crossing the line 0.61 seconds ahead of Jasmine Todd who led the Americans home to a season’s best
  • In the men’s relay, Usain Bolt brought the curtain down on a spine-tingling evening of athletics by anchoring Jamaica to a fourth successive men’s 4x100m title
  • Nickel Ashmeade, Asafa Powell, Bolt and Nesta Carter celebrate their victory with a few selfies