After winning both the 100 & 200 metre titles at the 2014 European Athletics Championships, Dafne Schippers shot to prominence in the world of sprinting. 

Formerly a World Championship medalist in the heptathlon, Schippers turned her full attention to sprinting at the start of 2015 ahead of the current championships in Beijing, and also with a view to the 2016 Olympics. 

This result, and the time in particular, seem to have vindicated Schippers' decision after the 23-year-old stormed to victory in the Bird's Nest Stadium.

The Dutch woman's gold medal backs up the silver she won in the 100 metres at the start of the championships, where she came closest to ending Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's dominance of the event.

Records tumble in rapid final

Schippers victory time of 21.63 seconds was the fastest 200 metre time run by a woman in 17 years, and the fourth fastest time in history. 

The 21.63 mark was both a Championship Record and an Area Record, and was the fastest time since Marion Jones' 21.62 second run in Johnannesburg back in 1998. 

To add to Schippers electric victory time, the second-placed Jamaican, Elaine Thompson finished the final just 0.03 seconds behind in silver, equalling the sixth quickest mark of all time. 

Thompson's compatriot Veronica Campbell-Brown also went sub 22 seconds in third place (21.97), whilst Britain's Dina Asher-Smith broke a national record down in fifth, with a time of 22.07 seconds, which was the fastest run at this distance by a teenager.

Shubenkov and Williams take hurdle gold

Outside of Schippers victory on day seven, the two sprint hurdle finals took place at the Bird's Nest, with Russia and Jamaica taking the spoils. 

In the 110 metre hurdles final, Russia's Sergey Subenkov dipped under 13 seconds to take victory in a high-quality final, as the 24-year-old bettered his bronze from two years ago. 

Shubenkov became the 16th fastest man ever in the discipline with his time of 12.98 seconds, to finish the race ahead of Jamaica's Hansle Parchment (13.03) and America's Aries Merritt (13.04) who won the other medals on offer. 

European medalist from 2014, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (France), finished fourth with a time of 13.17 seconds, whilst reigning-World Champion David Oliver (USA) finished down in seventh (13.33).

The only stain on Shubenkov's victory, is that he didn't beat the quickest man this year (12.94 in Saint-Denis), Orlando Ortega, who was ineligible to race at the championships after switching allegiance from Cuba to Spain earlier this year. 

In the women's 100 metre hurdles, there was a surprise winner in Jamaica's Danielle Williams, who bettered her previous personal best from the semi-final by 0.01 of a second, to win gold in a time of 12.57 seconds. 

Williams beat out Germany's Cindy Roleder by just 0.02 seconds to claim victory, with Belarusian Alina Talay winning bronze with a national record of 12.66 seconds. 

Despite having seven of the top 10 ranked women in the world, the USA did not pick up a single medal. Brianna Rollins finished the final in fourth (12.67) and Sharika Nelvis in eighth (13.06), whilst Dawn Harper-Nelson failed to make the final after clipping the second hurdle in her semi, failing to re-create the winning moment she had at this stadium seven years ago when she picked up Olympic gold. 

Bartoletta waits a decade to re-capture world gold

Despite the failings for Team USA in the hurdles, there was joy for the team on day seven when Tianna Bartoletta lepped to long jump gold. 

Bartoletta left it until the penultimate jump of the competition to take victory, when she jumped a world-leading time of 7.14 metres to inch past Britain's Shara Proctor. 

Proctor became the first Brit in history to jump past seven metres after her third attempt of 7.07 metres looked to have handed her gold, before Bartoletta stole victory at the last moment. 

The American previously won gold in this event 10-years ago in Helsinki before trying her hand at sprinting and bobsledding where she enjoyed differing success. 

Bartoletta's return to jumping gave her a golden moment, with Proctor picking up silver, and Serbia's Ivana Spanovic claiming the bronze.