Athletics News

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce delivers a comprehensive victory to recapture the world 100m title she last won in 2009.

American athletics legends Ed Moses and Mike Powell were accompanied by their compatriot Dawn Harper, the 2008 Olympic Games gold medallist and silver medallist in London last summer to the third of the IAAF Ambassadors ...

The women's Heptathlon went almost exactly as planned in the last event of day one, the 200m.

If the opening round heats had a distinctly American odour, the fragrance was unmistakably Russian after the semi-finals as Sergey Shubenkov led the qualifiers for the final later tonight.

The women's 100m final featured the eight fastest entrants of the championships, but ultimately there was no doubt over the winner as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce triumphed with the biggest winning margin in World Championshi...

Renaud Lavillenie will have to wait two more years to take another stab at winning the World Championships gold medal that has so far eluded him - and continues to do so - in his glittering career.

All season the men's 400m has looked to be a two-man race between Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt. It still may be, but after the semi-finals Saudi Arabia's Yousef Ahmed Masrahi and the Domincan Republic's Luguelin Sant...

New Zealand's Valerie Adams, one of the hottest favourites of this year's IAAF World Championships, lived up to her billing with aplomb and secured an unprecedented fourth successive World title in the Shot Put with a be...

Eight of the women who lined up for the 100m semi-finals had broken 11 seconds this year. All eight of those made it through to the final.

American David Oliver wins gold in the 110m hurdles final in the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, with Great Britain's William Sharman finishing fifth.

Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu wins gold in the women's 400m in a dramatic photo-finish at the World Championships in Moscow,

With the exception of possibly the Ethiopian record-holder Roba Gari, all of the chief protagonists eased into Thursday's final.

As expected, Brianne Theisen Eaton of Canada grabbed the lead in the Heptathlon after the first event. The 24-year-old clocked 13.17 in the 100m Hurdles into a -0.6 m/s headwind, just 0.04 from her season's best and is l...

It is hard to read too much into the heats of the men's 400m Hurdles which saw 24 out of the 36 starters advance to Tuesday night's semi-finals.

With a seemingly effortless performance, Tirunesh Dibaba earned her fifth IAAF World Championships gold medal at the Luzhniki Stadium, adding to her already enviable curriculum vitae.

Sore legs or not, Jamaica's Usain Bolt was not about to let the IAAF World Championships 100m title slip away again Sunday night at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.

Having finished fourth and out of the medals at the past three global championships, Jamaica's Kaliese Spencer was hoping that her luck would change.

Three men surpassed the automatic qualifying distance of 65.00m and all three did so on their first attempt, making it a quick morning's work on Monday for Germany's reigning Olympic, World and European champion Robert H...

With a Croatian flag draped around her neck, Sandra Perkovic stood proudly before the appreciative crowd in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday night, after winning her first IAAF World Championships Discus title.

Ashton Eaton's celebrations after winning his IAAF World Championships Decathlon title were likely to be muted as he was due to watch the woman he married last month, Canadian heptathlete Brianne Theisen, competing in he...

British sprinter James Dasaolu must adopt a "gladiatorial mentality" if he is to realise his potential, says Donovan Bailey.

Great Britain's Perri Shakes-Drayton makes it into semi-finals of the 400m hurdles as she wins her heat in 54.44 seconds.