OSAKA - With one gold, one silver and one bronze, China achieved its best results since 1993 at the world athletics championships, which boosted their confidence in preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games.

Even Lamine Diack, the IAAF president, believed that Chinese athletes will have better performances in the newly-built Chinese National Stadium at the Beijing Olympics.

Newly-crowned world champion Liu Xiang from China kisses his gold medal on the podium at the awarding ceremony for the men's 110 meters hurdles final at the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championship in Osaka September 1, 2007. [Xinhua] "I believe the Chinese athletes can do better in the Olympics because they compete at home," said Diack in an interview with Xinhua. "Liu Xiang will 100 percent have the chance to win again and I think China can make breakthroughs in other events."

Liu became the first man from China to win gold at the world championships with a 110 meters hurdles victory.

The 24-year-old Shanghai native has already been a superstar in China following his Olympic triumph in Athens and the 12.88 seconds he clocked to break the world record in Lausanne last summer.

China should have won a second gold through London marathon winner Zhou Chunxiu. But Zhou, the year's fastest runner, was overtaken by Kenya's eventual winner Catherine Ndereba with two kilometers to go and had to settle for a silver.

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