Chambers, Ennis enjoy golden day for Britain
Hooker soars 6.01 metres for pole vault crown
Dwain Chambers claimed his first global sprint title and Jessica Ennis posted the fourth-best pentathlon score of all-time on a golden day for Britain at the world indoor championships yesterday.
Chambers, banned for doping for two years in 2003, won the 60 metres with the year's fastest sprint time, an impressive 6.48 seconds.
American Mike Rodgers took second in 6.53 with Antigua's Daniel Bailey third at 6.57.
"I will enjoy this moment for a while and will work hard," said Chambers, who hopes to win the European 100 metres title this summer.
"I'm so grateful to be here."
World heptathlon champion Ennis won the pentathlon with 4,937 points.
Only world record holder Irina Belova, of Russia, and Sweden's Carolina Kluft have posted better scores than the 24-year-old Briton.
She topped Kluft's championship record by four points.
Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Nataliya Dobrynska, of Ukraine, was second with 4,851 points and Russia's Tatyana Chernova third at 4,762.
Australian Olympic and world pole vault champion Steve Hooker collected the only global title he was missing, the indoor title, with a championship record 6.01 metres. He then took three unsuccessful tries at adding a centimetre to Sergei Bubka's world record of 6.15 metres.
Ethiopian Meseret Defar also added more gold, claiming her fourth successive women's 3,000 metres title.
She sprinted home in 8:51.17 to edge Kenyan 5,000 metres world champion Vivian Cheruiyot.
Another defending champion, Croatian Blanka Vlasic, won her second successful high jump title with a clearance of 2.00 metres.
A powerful US team claimed four golds on the second day of the three-day meeting.
Defending champion Lolo Jones was perhaps the happiest, celebrating wildly after winning the 60 metres hurdles in a championship record 7.72 seconds.
Only two women, Swedish world record holder Susanna Kallur and Russia's Ludmila Engquist, have run faster.
The Americans went 1-2 in the heptathlon with shot put defender Christain Cantwell and women's 400 metres runner Debbie Dunn also winning.
Olympic decathlon gold medallist Bryan Clay scored 6,204 points to edge world champion Trey Hardee, who had 6,184.
Russia's Aleksey Drozdov was third with 6,141.