Burrell strikes gold

Burrell: swept past Tatyana Kotova of Russia

US long jumper Dawn Burrell won the world indoor title on her last attempt, sweeping past defending champion Tatyana Kotova at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon on Saturday.

In an extremely tight competition, Burrell finished with a season's best of 7.03 metres, finishing 5cms ahead of Kotova.

Niurka Montalvo of Spain set a national record of 6.88 to finish third.

German veteran and Olympic champion Heike Drechsler, 36, won the indoor title in 1987 and still holds the world record with 7.37. She finished fifth on Saturday, behind Fiona May of Italy.

Szabo:

US champion Lawrence Johnson won the pole vault gold ahead of compatriot Tye Harvey with Romain Mesnil of France taking bronze.

Lawrence, who already had the season's top height, won with 5.95 meters, ahead of Tye's 5.90. Mesnil had 5.85.

In the 3000m, Russian Olga Yegorova stunned Olympic champion Gabriela Szabo to win the women's title in a time of eight minutes 37.48 seconds.

The 28-year-old Russian, who surged past Szabo with a lap to go, beat home the Romanian, a three-time world indoor champion at this event, who finished in 8:39.65, and another Russian, Yelena Zadorozhnaya, took the bronze in a time of 8:40.15

Rui Silva delighted the home crowd by winning the 1,500m, coming from behind to beat Spain's Reyes Esteves - Olympic champion Noah Ngeny of Kenya took the bronze.