from Helsinki
Introduced by Desmond Lynam
This afternoon DALEY THOMPSON completes the first day's events in the decathlon, where his great rival is the world record holder JURGEN HINGSEN of West Germany, whom THOMPSON beat to become European Champion 12 months ago.
There are also three finals this afternoon: the women's shot put, the 3,000m steeplechase and the men's javelin, which is bound to enthral the capacity Finnish crowd. Commentators DAVID COLEMAN
RON PICKERING , STUART STOREY and BRENDAN FOSTER
Reporter TONY GUBBA
Today's Finals:
2.0 Men's 50,000m walk
(Current World Record: 3 hr 41 min 19 sec RAUL GONZALEZ , Mexico 1978)
3.0 Women's shot
(22.45m ILONA SLUPIANEK, GDR, 1980)
4.30 Men's javelin
(99.72m TOM PETRANOFF, USA, 1983)
4.40 Men's 3,000m steeplechase
(8 min 5.4 sec HENRY RONO , KENYA, 1978)