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In what will no doubt be considered one biggest upsets of the 2'013 IAAF World Championships, Polish hammer thrower Pawel Fajdek chose the right time to throw a personal best and deny Hungary's Krisztian Pars the World t...

David Oliver had a hard time talking to his mother after the biggest win of his life.

Tuesday's action on day four of the IAAF World Championships may be the most emblematic of the entire meet, if only because it features the primary component of the Championships' logo.

• Liverpudlian 28 points off the podium in fifth• Shakes-Drayton and Child into 400m hurdles final A performance brimming with zest - and highly suggestive of future glories on the grandest stages - was not quite eno...

LaShawn Merritt of the USA destroys the field as he storms to victory in the men's 400m final at the World Championships in Moscow in a time of 43.74 seconds.

Mohammad Aman wins Ethiopia's first medal at a distance below 5,000m at a major championships, winning the 800m in a time of 1:43.31.

Defending world 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene fails to qualify for the final at the World Athletics Championships, after coming fifth in the semis.

The celebration for Raphael Holzdeppe began as soon as the bar on London 2012 Olympic Games champion Renaud Lavillenie's final vault at 5.96m crashed to the pit at the IAAF World Championships.

Hanna Melnychenko's season's best of 41.87m in the Javelin has suddenly made it very hard for anyone to catch her during the 800m, the final event of the Heptathlon.

This morning's qualifying round did nothing but simply underline the poor standards in the women's Triple Jump, because for the first time since the event made its debut at the World Championships in 1993, a mark below 1...

Apart from a somewhat minor hiccup involving a misjudged finish, everything went completely according to plan for Russia's Elena Lashmanova as she added the IAAF World Championship 20km Race Walk title to the Olympic gol...

Britain's Perri Shakes-Drayton storms past defending champion Lashinda Demus to win her 400m hurdles semi-final at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

Heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson achieves two further personal bests at the World Championships.

Great Britain's Mo Farah and Robbie Grabarz both ease through qualification on day four of the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.

Christine Ohuruogu was named Great Britain team captain on the eve of the Championships mainly because of the example she sets in peaking for big races.

As anticipated yesterday, Germany's Claudia Rath dramatically moved up in the rankings, producing a personal best of 6.67m in the Long Jump. The 27-year-old added five centimetres to her previous best of 6.62m in this ev...

Pythons mesmerise their prey. Snake charmers mesmerise pythons. It's time for the finalists in the men's 5000m to decide whether they are snake charmers or snake prey.

In a dramatic and slightly chaotic finale to the Women's 20km Race Walk, Elena Lashmanova led home a Russian one-two to add the World title to the Olympic title she won in London last year.

History has taught us never to discount Christine Ohuruogu but boy did she leave it late, very late, to regain the World 400m title she last won in Osaka six years ago.

A day after watching Usain Bolt regain the World 100m title he had won in 2009, fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce did the same thing as she produced a consummate exhibition of sprinting from the gun to finish two m...

Valerie Adams has made history by winning an unprecedented fourth World outdoor title, adding another piece of hardware to her impressive trophy cabinet which also features two Olympic gold medals in Bejing 2008 and Lond...

Defending world 400m champion Dai Greene insists 'anything is possible' despite struggling in the heats in Moscow.