PARIS – Kelli White became the first American woman ever to win the 100 and 200 meters in the same World Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Thursday, taking the 200 going away in a world-leading and personal-best time of 22.05 seconds at the Stade de France. It was the highlight for Team USA’s most successful evening of the Championships thus far.

White (Union City, Calif.) got out well in the race, quickly establishing a lead on the field on the curve and never giving her competitors a chance to close the gap in the final 100 meters. Her 200m gold comes after she won the 100 on Sunday night and is her second personal best of the Championships.

Teammate Torri Edwards (Los Angeles, Calif.) also won her second medal of the meet, placing third in 22.47 seconds in the 200. Edwards finished second to White on Sunday in the 100 meters. Russian Anastasiya Kapachinskaya overtook Edwards in the final meters for second in a personal-best time of 22.38.

Sandra Glover (Sugar Land, Texas) added a silver to Thursday’s medal totals in the women’s 400-meter hurdles. The two-time fifth-place finisher at the World Championships had a strong stretch run, moving past world record holder Yuliya Pechonkina before the final hurdle to win silver in a season-best time of 53.65 seconds. Jana Pittman of Australia won the gold in 53.22, with Pechonkina third in 53.71.

The U.S. men will look for similar success as their distaff counterparts Friday in the finals of the men’s 200 meters, when for the first time in World Championships history, they have three runners in the final. Darvis Patton (Fort Worth, Texas) won the first semifinal heat on Thursday in a personal-best time of 20.03 and looked very easy doing it; J.J. Johnson (Garland, Texas) was fourth in the same race to advance. John Capel (Gainesville, Florida) won the second semifinal in 20.18 to set up the U.S. onslaught on the final.

Americans also found success in the amputee 200 meter race on Thursday, with Marlon Shirley scoring a huge win in the race with his time of 22.93 seconds. American teammate Danny Andrews placed second in 23.60.

In other finals Thursday, Derek Miles (Jonesboro, Ark.) and Tim Mack (Knoxville, Tenn.) tied for sixth in the pole vault with a clearance of 5.70m/18-8.25. Both men had their only miss at 5.50m/18-0.5 before missing all three attempts at 5.75m/18-10.5. The competition was won by Giuseppe Gibilisco of Italy in a national record 5.90m/19-4.25.

Team USA showed why it is the world’s #1 110-meter hurdling power as four American men advanced to Friday’s semifinal round. Allen Johnson (Irmo, S.C. – 13.42), Larry Wade (Canoga Park, Calif. – 13.49) and Chris Phillips (Maumelle, Ark. - 13.26 personal record) all won their quarterfinal races, while Terrence Trammell (Columbia, S.C.) overcame a horrendously slow start (reaction time .258 seconds) to place third in his heat in 13.51 and automatically advance.

Anna Mahon (Orange, Conn.) fared well in her first World Championship, placing seventh in the women’s hammer throw with a toss of 68.45m/224-7. Melissa Price (Lincoln, Neb.) was 12th (62.34/204-6) in a competition won by Cuba’s Yipsi Moreno (73.33m/240-7).

Grace Upshaw (Redwood City, Calif.) had the 10th-best jump of the day in women’s long jump qualifying with 6.55m/21-6 and will compete in Saturday’s final. Jorge Torres (Boulder, Colo.) will compete in Sunday’s final of the men’s 5,000 meters after making the final cut as the last qualifier. Torres was ninth in the second of two semifinal races Thursday, finishing in 13:42.43 to post the 12th-fastest time among all competitors on the day.

The men’s 800 meters 1st round provided plenty of drama for Team USA. With eight heats being run, World Indoor champion David Krummenacker (Tucson, Ariz.) finished fourth in his heat in 1:45.84 and had to wait to see if he would be among the eight fastest finishers who did not place in the top two of their heats. In heat 3, Khadevis Robinson (Santa Monica, Calif.) came off the final curve in first but was running in fourth place heading into the finish when Mouhssin Chehibi of Morocco tangled brief briefly with Robinson’s arms as he passed Robinson. Chehibi was disqualified, but Robinson’s third-place time of 1:47.85 wasn’t enough to move him to the next round. Team USA managers filed a protest, however, and Robinson was advanced to the semifinals. In heat five, Sam Burley (Philadelphia) ran out of his lane and was disqualified.

Kim Kreiner was 12th in Group A in women’s javelin qualifying. She threw 54.84m/179-11 and did not advance.