Steve Cram
BBC athletics commentator at Alexander Stadium

Sam Bennett almost wins it. Excellent performance. He keeps learning all the time. A new personal best for Bennett.

Can British champion and Commonwealth silver medallist Sam Bennett force his way into the final in the last of these 110m hurdles semis?

Jakub Szymanski takes charge early on, but Bennett is always in the picture - and he hangs on to second spot!

It's a new personal best for the Briton too. What a time to produce that! With the performance of his life, he books his place in the final at 21:47 BST.

Andrew Cotter
Commentator on BBC One

Oh, the hurdles. They all know the dangers. If you get it slightly wrong, you can pay the biggest of prices.

Elie Bacari falls while out in the lead!

The Belgian athlete had pulled ahead from the pack but clipped the seventh hurdle and hit the deck hard.

He doesn't appear to be badly hurt, leaping up and shouting in anger.

Jason Joseph of Switzerland and France's Thomas Wilkes take the two automatic final spots with times of 13.48 and 13.50 seconds respectively, while no-one else troubles the non-automatic fastest qualifier slots.

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Steve Cram
BBC athletics commentator at Alexander Stadium

Tade Ojora was right in the mix until the fifth and sixth hurdle.

It's a messy first race, with plenty of hurdles being clipped, and Great Britain's Tade Ojora crosses the line in fifth in 13.48 seconds.

Frenchman Just Kwaou-Mathey, who has a sub-13 personal best, takes the win ahead of Milan Trajkovic of Cyprus in the two automatic qualification spots.

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We move to the track for the first time tonight with the three men's 110m hurdles semi-finals.

Great Britain's Tade Ojora and Sam Bennett, who won silver at the Commonwealths, go in the first and third race respectively.

France's 2022 bronze medallist Just Kwaou-Mathey is the fastest entrant this year with a time of 13.20 sec. while Spain’s Enrique Llopis and Swiss record holder Jason Joseph earned European silver and bronze respectively in Rome two years ago. Meanwhile Poland’s Jakub Szymanski is the reigning world and European champion indoors.

Two qualifiers from each race go through automatically to the final at 21:45 BST and they will be joined by the next two fastest runners from across the semi-finals.

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Jenny Meadows
Former 800m world championship medallist and Keeley Hodgkinson's coach on BBC Two

Keeley Hodgkinson has felt he crowd, felt the track and settled the nerves and she is now into this championship.

Hodgkinson is back in action tomorrow at around 12:10 BST in 800m semi-final.

Dame Denise Lewis
President of UK Athletics and Olympic heptathlon gold medallist on BBC Two

On UK Athletics' World Championships 2029 bid being affected by the success of European Championships...

I mean you have got to see it in a separate way. The bids have been well-thought-out. We have some fantastic people contributing to that. We put our best foot forward.

We work on our strengths, and we know what we can do. We don't need to sell that to World Athletics. They have seen those championships that we're talking about.

It is the fine detail that is going to be worked on from now and September when that announcement will be made, but I think we're in good shape.

I know the athletes know what it can deliver.

Read more on World Championships 2029 bid

Time for some more action - it's the final of the women's hammer.

Finland have never won a European medal in this event but boast the top two entrants this year - Olympic finalist Krista Tervo and former world and European age-level champion Silja Kosonen.

Poland’s 41-year-old world record holder Anita Wlodarczyk is a four-time European gold medallist but had to settle for silver two years ago.

Reading’s Charlotte Payne, who is deaf and had a cochlear implant fitted two years ago, finished fourth at the Commonwealth Games. She’s fifth to throw and ranks ninth among the finalists based on season’s bests.

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Greg Rutherford
Former world and Olympic long jump champion

Christine Ohuruogu was someone who was an unbelievable 400m runner.

She knew how to plan a race perfectly. She could nearly execute every single time without fail. Matt knows what he needs to do.

He cannot get caught up in any of what is going around him, the stadium, the pressure. Run the race he knows, don’t change anything – that’s the big thing.

He is here to win it; he should be able to win it. Stick to that plan, get around and stand on top of the podium.

Dame Denise Lewis
Sydney 2000 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist on BBC Two

Mostly, it is about making sure Matthew Hudson-Smith makes the right judgement. He has got to make sure he times it well. Let's see what he can do.

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Greg Rutherford
Former world and Olympic long jump champion

We have all been around championships and teams. You see someone doing well, and you think I want a bit of that.

Multiple times in my career I would watch others go out there perform, win a medal and stand up on top of the podium. You just feel I want some of that.

It can add pressure at times, but equally you get excited as a team when you go back to the hotel, and everyone is high-fiving and excited.

You’re all friends, we have known each other a long time. When you see your friends doing well, it gives you that extra bit of excitement.

Dame Denise Lewis
President of UK Athletics and Olympic heptathlon gold medallist on BBC Two

On the lack of spectators in the stands...

I was a bit surprised, I will confess. Looking around tonight, it could still be better. We get skewed a little bit because we have had packed championships.

The London Diamond League is so busy and it is a one-day meet.

We all know early day championships can struggle.

I would like to have the judgement at the end of the championships.

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Here's a reminder of how the medal table looks after two days of the championships.

Great Britain's team tops the standings with two golds and two silvers - Amy Hunt and Romell Glave tasted victory in the women's and men's 100m, while Jeremiah Azu finished second to Glave and the mixed 4x400m team also picked-up a medal.

The men's decathlon got under way earlier today, with three events taking place in the morning session.

Germany's Leo Neugebauer leads the way after the 100m, long jump and shot put, topping the rankings of the latter two disciplines, with a total of 2819 points.

Jeff Tesselaar of the Netherlands (2690) and Norway's Sander Skotheim (2638) follow him, with no British involvement in the 25-man field.

The high jump (18:40 BST) started a little while ago, with the 400m (21:22) to follow later tonight and five more disciplines occurring tomorrow.

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Jenny Meadows
Former 800m world championship medallist

You cannot run the 400m flat out...

The terminology 'eyeballs out', but if you run eyeballs out, then you will probably run out of energy at the highway mark.

It is important to get a good start to position yourself. Down the back straight between 100m and 200m you need to relax as you're going to need that energy when you get on the home straight.

Going around the bend it is all about position, so you can have a little look at what's happening.

On the home straight you need to make sure you have enough energy left as lactic acid is going to hit you, no matter who you are.