Isinbayeva, the double Olympic champion and world record holder, was a shadow of her usual self in her bid to win a third consecutive world title as she failed at 4.75 metres and then twice at 4.80m to finish out of the medals.

The 27-year-old - who set the world record of 5.05m at the Beijing Olympic Games on her way to the gold last year - slumped with her head in her hands after her third failure, while her Polish conqueror failed to contain her joy.
 

Isinbayeva said: "I have no proper explanation for what happened today.

 

"Everything was perfect, I was confident and I cleared 4.70m during the warm-up.
 

"When I was lying on the ground and concentrating, I imagined my victory and not defeat.
 

"I did not expect it.
 

"I hope I will recover from this."
 

Rogowska for her part could scarcely believe it either.
 

She said: "If somebody told me this morning that I would win the gold medal, I would have just smiled.
 

"Everybody was so surprised when Isinbayeva hit the bar.

 

"I still do not believe I won.

 

"Maybe tomorrow I will realise it.
 

"Who would have believed Yelena would not get a medal?

 

"She is the only woman in the world to have jumped over five metres.
 

"I didn't really care where I finished as long as I was on the podium, so to get gold was a wonderful surprise."
 

Rogowska broke Isinbayeva's six-year unbeaten record in London last month and having inflicted a second defeat on the Russian here, the 28-year-old Pole was hugged by her rivals after she claimed her first major competition win.
 

She was the only athlete to clear 4.75m here and it was enough to give her gold.
 

Rogowska said: "I beat her in London, but don't forget, she is still number one in the world.

 

"Back in London, I just thought she was having a bad day and it would go away.

 

"I thought she would be on form for the world championships here and I expected her to win.

"I am very, very surprised that I got the gold medal with 4.75.

 

"I thought I would have to jump 4.80m plus to have a chance of the gold medal."

 

Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele (pictured), meanwhile, etched his name in distance running history when he won his fourth consecutive world 10,000 metres title.
 

The 27-year-old Olympic champion ran 26min 46.31sec to add Berlin gold to his previous success in Paris 2003, Helsinki 2005 and Osaka two years ago, to match compatriot Haile Gebrselassie for the most World Championship titles won.
 

Bekele said: "It's great to win for the fourth time.

 

"I had already planned to stay behind until the last lap and then kick."
 

The victory also meant the 5ft 4in phenomenon from Gebrselassie's Oromia region continued his 100 per cent record over the 10,000m event.

Once again the Ethiopian relied on his last-lap kick, an incredible ability to change gears when the bell sounds and destroy his rivals in 50 quick, painful metres.
 

Eritrea's Zersenay Tadese, who led for almost all the second-half of the 25-lap race, claimed silver in 26:50.12 with Kenyan Moses Masai of Kenya winning bronze in 26:57.39.

 

Jamaica's sprinting dominance continued in sizzling style when Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser clocked 10.73sec to win the women's 100m, 24 hours after Usain Bolt's 9.58 in the men's event.

 

Fraser was the fastest of the semi-finalists and exploded from the blocks in the final to win in 10.73 seconds.

 

Kerron Stewart made a late surge but finished two hundredths adrift and had to settle for silver, as she had in Beijing.

 

Fraser was only able to run thanks to the intervention of Lamine Diack, the President of the International Assocation of Athletics Federations, who appealed to Jamaican officials after she had been one of six athletes dropped for failing to report to a pre-Championships training camp in Nuremberg.

 

Only America's Florence Griffith-Joyner and self-confessed drugs cheat Marion Jones have run faster than Fraser but she said she had expected something special.

 

She said: "I made the perfect start and executed well.

 

"I left all the world behind me down there on the track."

 

America's Carmelita Jeter prevented a repeat of Jamaica's Olympic clean sweep as she took bronze in 10.90, edging defending champion Veronica Campbell-Brown into fourth.