Athletics News

At the fourth of the IAAF Ambassadors Press Conferences, 1993 IAAF World Championships gold medallists Frankie Fredericks and Colin Jackson were accompanied on Tuesday (13) by Russia bronze medal winner in the 110m Hurdl...

Britain's Jess Judd "expected so much more" than the fifth place finish which eliminates her in the 800m heats at the World Athletics Championships.

• GB medal hope finishes seventh behind Zuzana Hejnova• Olympic bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz eighth in high jump After the peachy highs of earlier in these world championships, this was a day to make British spiri...

Yelena Isinbayeva defends laws banning promotion of homosexuality, having objected to Emma Green Tregaro's rainbow-painted nails Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, the face of the Moscow world championships, has def...

Trinidad & Tobago's Jehue Gordon pips Michael Tinsley to the 400m hurdles title at the World Athletics Championships.

Sweden's Abeba Aregawi powers to gold in the women's 1500m final with Great Britain's Hannah England finishing a creditable fourth.

Czech hurdler and Olympic bronze medallist Zuzana Hejnova leads from almost start to finish to win her first world title in 52.83 seconds.

BBC Sport's Denise Lewis and Michael Johnson give their reaction to World pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva's comments against homosexuality.

There will be 13 women in Saturday's final as common sense prevailed on Thursday morning after that number of women cleared 1.92m.

Long-jumper Chris Tomlinson defends criticism of Greg Rutherford's selection for the 2013 World Championships.

The British Athletes Commission's new anti-doping advisor Zac Purchase says drugs cheats are "abhorrent".

A tearful Jessica Judd admits she "did not perform" in the 800m heats at the World Athletics Championships.

Photographer Olivier Morin explains how he was able to capture Usain Bolt winning 100m World Championship gold as lightning struck overhead.

Ryan Whiting leads the 2013 lists as the only man over 22 metres this year, and he showed just why he is the favourite to add a gold medal at these championships to the one he won at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championsh...

No woman for 22 years has completed the 100m/200m sprint double at a World Championships but Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce remains on track to achieve that feat after easing, almost effortlessly, through her first round heats.

It was brutal and it was fast and for the first time in World Championships history three first-round women's 800m heats dipped below two minutes to offer a tantalising taster of what to expect in tomorrow evening's semi...

Irish 50km walk gold medallist Robert Heffernan says his victory "was like a dream" and that he was determined to create his own "Rocky story".