Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada competes in the Women's 60m Hurdles Final.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DOHA, Qatar -- Canadians Perdita Felicien and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep picked up silver and bronze respectively in the 60-metre hurdles at the World Indoor Championships on Saturday.

Felicien from Pickering, Ont., crossed in a seasonal-best time of 7.86 seconds for silver, just barely ahead of Whitby, Ont., native Lopes-Schliep, who crossed in 7.87 to capture bronze. Lolo Jones of the United States took home the gold in 7.72 seconds.

Olympic champion Bryan Clay, meanwhile, was successful defending his world indoor heptathlon title Saturday, beating fellow American Trey Hardee and Russia's Aleksey Drozdov.

In a good day for the U.S. team, Christian Cantwell won his third shot put title and Debbie Dunn added gold in the 400 metres.

Canadian Dylan Armstrong's shot put -- 21.39 metres -- was a Canadian indoor record, he finished fourth. He broke his own record that he set earlier this season.

Clay limited the damage in Saturday's concluding 1,000 metres and finished the seven events with 6,204 points, 20 ahead of outdoor world champion Hardee. Drozdov had 6,141 for bronze.

Holding over a four-second edge over Hardee, Clay sought to control the 1,000 from the back, but Hardee created an ever bigger gap. Clay needed a big final lap to finish in two minutes 50.28 seconds, just 2.52 seconds behind Hardee.

Clay, who finished last in the 1,000, was running on empty late in the race. "The last few years I've barely broke 3 minutes in the 1,000," he said. After a hesitant long jump on Friday, it was hard for the rest of the way.

"I didn't make it easy on myself in the last two days. I had a lot of attempts in things that I shouldn't have attempts at. So my legs were pretty tired, pretty fried."

Hardee said he knew Clay had won the moment he crossed the line, looked back and saw the Olympic champion less than three seconds behind him. Still, he was satisfied with silver in his first world indoors.

"I was happy. I was just running to keep my lead," said Hardee.

In the women's pentathlon, Britain's Jessica Ennis led from start to finish to take gold ahead of Olympic champion Natallia Dobrynska and Russia's Tatyana Chernova.

Ennis, the outdoor heptathlon world champion, finished with a championship record of 4,937 points, while Dobrynska set a Ukrainian record of 4,851. Behind Chernova's 4,762, U.S. athlete Hyleas Fountain set a North American record of 4,753.

Ethiopia's Meseret Defar has won her fourth 3,000 metre world indoor title in a row, beating Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot in a sprint to the line. Defar's teammate Sentayehu Ejigu took the bronze.

Defar controlled the race for most of the race from third position and with 350 metres to go made a move to the front. She steadily increased her pace and no one could match it as she finished in eight minutes 51.17. Cheruiyot finished .68 seconds behind.

Cantwell won his third world indoor title in the shot, saving his biggest shot till his sixth and final attempt of 21.83 metres to overcome Belarussian Andrei Mikhnevich's 21.68. German Ralf Bartels took bronze with a personal best of 21.44.

Dunn added to the U.S. party mood when he took charge in the 400 early on and never let off to finish in 51.04. Jamaica's Novlene Williams-Mills stumbled off the track early on in a slight clash with Tatyana Firova but the Russian went on to claim silver a full 1.07 seconds behind.