World Championships
Edmonton, Alberta, August 3-12, 2001
Photos by Alison Wade/www.nyrrc.org

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Day Two (8/4): Women's 1,500m Round One
Day Three (8/5): Women's 1,500m Semi Finals
Day Four (8/6): Women's 100m Final, Women's Pole Vault Final
Day Five (8/7): Women's 1,500m Final, Women's 400m Final | Women's 10,000m Final
Day Six (8/8): Women's 400m Hurdles Final
Day Seven (8/9): Women's 5,000m Prelims
Day Eight (8/10): Women's 800m Semi Finals and Women's 200m Final
Day Nine (8/11): Women's 100m Hurdles Final and Women's 5,000m Final
Day Ten (8/12): Women's Marathon Page One | Women's Marathon Page Two | Women's 800m Final
Men's Photos

Heat one of the 1,500m semis, with the first 6 in each heat advancing to the final.	Alesya Turova (4th, 4:11.43) follows Kathleen Friedrich (DNF).	L-R: Turova, Carla Sacramento (3rd, 4:11.23), Violeta Szekely (1st, 4:10.30), Friedrich and Helen Pattinson (9th, 4:16.39).	Szekely (#652) is one of the favorites, along with countrywoman Gabriela Szabo, heading into Tuesday's final.
Sureyya Ayhan is thrilled as she crosses the line in second (behind Szekely), advancing to the final.	Following are Sacramento, the U.S.'s Sarah Schwald (7th), Turova (4th), Nuria Fernandez (5th) and Yuliya Kosenkova (6th).	Schwald (4:11.74), who's having the season of her life, narrowly missed advancing to the final, finishing .28 out of 6th.	Heat #2, L-R: Suzy Favor-Hamilton, Gabriela Szabo, Abebech Negussie and Natalya Gorelova.
Favor-Hamilton, Szabo and Negussie.	Favor-Hamilton looked to be in contention until she dropped out with one lap to go.	Natalia Rodriguez, sporting the coolest hairdo of any of the 1,500 runners, advanced to the final with her 5th-place 4:08.49.	L-R: Favor-Hamilton, Mardrea Hyman (6th, 4:08.58), Rodriguez, Szabo, crowd favorite Leah Pells (4th, 4:08.49) and Gorelova.
Rodriguez, Szabo and Pells.	Lidia Chojecka (3rd, 4:08.37), Szabo, Pells and Gorelova.	Szabo.	Negussie dropped back to finish 10th in 4:29.57.
Favor-Hamilton stops one lap short with no apparent injury.		The six finalists cross the finish line.