Boyce finishes sixth in Doha as organisers accused of treating athletes like 'idiots'

Brendan Boyce saved the performance of his career to date for some of the most trying conditions ever seen at a major Championship athletics event, by finishing sixth in the men’s 50k walk at the Worlds in Doha.

With temperatures only ever hitting a low of 29.5C during the four-hour slog, the Donegal walker was never lower than 19th as a field of 46 produced 28 finishers – 14 of whom were forced to drop out during the longest event in the programme.