English and Robinson bow out of 800m in Moscow

Mark English and Paul Robinson both bowed out of the 800m in the first round heats on the opening morning of the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

English came fourth in his heat with a competitive mark of 1 minute, 47.08 seconds – but still found himself as eighth-fastest loser when only the first six outside the automatic qualifying positions would progress to tomorrow’s semi-finals.