Beijing 4th inspired Lisa's silver.

Byline: James Toney 

LISA Dobriskey has revealed how a Beijing video nasty inspired her to 1500m silver at the World Athletics Championships.

Last year Dobriskey mistimed her finish in the Olympic final and was forced to settle for an agonising fourth.

This time around the Commonwealth champion, whose season has been overshadowed by injury, made no mistakes.

However, it could have been so much better.

Spain's Natalia Rodriguez initially took gold but was rightly disqualified after she barged Ethiopia's Gelete Burka to the ground with 200m to go.

Reigning champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal then just held off a fastfinishing Dobriskey by a thickness of a vest - and just one hundredth of a second - to claim second.

"I didn't really want to be the silver medallist by default and I was happy to stick with the bronze," said Dobriskey, who clocked a time of 4.03.75 minutes, to miss out on gold by one hundredth of a second. "It now means I missed the gold by a fraction - I don't want to think about that. I've spent the whole of last year thinking 'what if' but I can honestly say there was nothing left today.

"I just could not finish fourth again because I've driven my fiance and my family absolutely up the wall with the DVD from Beijing. There won't be any more tears now."

There was more silver-medal joy in the men's 4x400m as Martyn Rooney led the British team home to claim a sixth Team GB medal of the championships.

United States - with a powerful quartet that included both LaShawn Merritt and Jeremy Wariner - predictably galloped clear to gold while Rooney on Britain's anchor leg tenaciously held off Australia to claim second.

"I'm still not as fit as I'd want to be but I've got a silver medal so I'm happy, it was just amazing," said Rooney, who was joined in the quartet by Conrad Williams, Michael Bingham and Rob Tobin.