Other highlights saw Chris Brown, twice the bronze medallist, finally win the 400m in 45.96s, while Deresse Mekonnen defended his 1, 500m title.
Borough mayor George Walton presented the Olympic bronze medallist with the award at a nursery school in Sandbach.
His opponent in the last eight, Artayev, won the welterweight gold medal at the 2004 Games in Athens and was the middleweight bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships.
Right now, competing in the junior 10m hopscotch championships for the Athens bronze medallist would be a blessing, given the size of the crutch she's been hobbling around on for the last four days because of a heel injury.
Christie is set to join former Olympic javelin silver-medallist Steve Backley, two-time Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson and Katharine Merry, the Games 400m bronze medallist in 2000, as mentors for the British team leading up to London 2012.
Becky Lyne, the European 800m bronze medallist and Jo Pavey (3, 000m) carry British hopes on day two in Stuttgart.
Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu has another chance to take on world champion Sanya Richards in the 400m, while world bronze medallist Jenny Meadows goes in the 800m.
On the undercard, Dublin's Olympic bronze medallist Darren Sutherland stopped Siarhei Navarka of Belarus in the third round in his second pro fight.
Team captain Jenny Meadows, bronze medallist at the World Championships last summer, will be going for 800m gold on Sunday.
Japan-based Yamauchi had to reel in Kastor after the 2004 Olympic marathon bronze-medallist and 2006 London Marathon winner had built up a 200-metre lead with only two miles remaining.
The southpaw Irishman, a World Championships bronze medallist in his amateur days, showed impressive hand-speed and seemed to edge the first three minutes.
Germany also took gold in the women's javelin, Linda Stahl throwing a personal best of 66.81m, with Olympic bronze medallist Christina Obergfoll taking silver and Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic bronze.
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The 23-year-old will be up against world bronze medallist Wallace Spearmon, Britain's Marlon Devonish and Ireland's Paul Hession in the 200m.
Olympic bronze medallist Sanya Richards ran the fastest women's 400m of the year to win gold in 49 seconds.
Bronze medallist Alex Coomber, the women's bobsleigh team, luger Mark Hatton, speed skater Debbie Palmer - and of course Fiona MacDonald's husband Ewan, were whistling and cheering every time our girls blasted the Swiss stone or added another point to the scoreboard.
Olympic bronze medallist Sanya Richards of the United States - who faded in the final won by Briton Christine Ohuruogu in Beijing - won the women's 400m in an overdue season's best of 49.74 secs, with Jamaica's Shericka Williams, second in Beijing, off the pace in fourth.
Beijing bronze medallist Tony Jeffries also criticised the organisation after signing pro forms with Dennis Hobson last week, although ABA chief executive Paul King said it "has no responsibility for the elite boxing programme".
Williams, 400m hurdles European bronze medallist at Gothenburg in 2006, won the Welsh championships in Cardiff in a time of 49.89 secs - just outside the 26-year-old's season's best.
Britain's Andrew Turner, last year's Commonwealth and European 110m hurdles bronze medallist, defied a false start to win the men's 60m hurdles in 7.69.
World bronze medallist Andriy Serdinov of Ukraine, who broke the world record in the world championship semi-finals last year only for the time to be bettered by Phelps in the next semi-final, finished strongly close behind the Americans to take another bronze in a European record 51.36.
World bronze medallist Jenny Meadows produced Britain's best performance with third place in the women's 800m.
British quartet Marlon Devonish, Commonwealth bronze medallist Darren Campbell, Christian Malcolm and Julian Golding will be challenging in the 200m.
Australian cyclist Jayme Richardson-Paris - a bronze medallist in Beijing - is currently preparing for London 2012 with her compatriots at the Newport Velodrome, also a training base for the GB and US Paralympic cyclists.
Beijing Olympics individual pursuit bronze medallist Steven Burke, 23, and Rob Hayles, 38, who won silver in the team pursuit at the Athens Olympics and a bronze at the Sydney Olympics, are also taking part.
At least one medallist from each event will be tested compared with every gold, silver and bronze winner at the Olympics.
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