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Mo Farah says his 5,000m victory was his sweetest yet as he completed a dream 'double-double' at the World Championships.

• Russian athlete blames poor English for controversy• Pole vaulter insists she is opposed to sex discrimination Yelena Isinbayeva has blamed her poor English for Thursday's controversial statements on Russia's anti-...

For the first time since 1999, Kenya will have three men in the World Championships 1500m final.

• Gemili one of three Britons to qualify for 200m semi-finals• Women's 4x400m team make final without Shakes-Drayton Perri Shakes-Drayton has flown back to the UK to get the left knee she injured during Thursday's 40...

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...

The IAAF Ambassadors Press Conference, marking 30 years of the IAAF World Championships, featured two IAAF Ambassadors, Great Britain's 1983 1500m champion Steve Cram and Russia's 1996 Olympic Games 800m and 1500m champi...

Mo Farah completed the double in Moscow that he missed in Daegu two years ago, producing an 800m-like final 600 to hold off a host of challengers in the 5000m on Friday night.

Adam Gemili, the reigning World junior champion in the 100m, underlined the soundness of his decision to focus on the 200m at these World Championships when he ran the first sub-20 second time of his life in the semi-fin...

David Storl defied the odds after an underwhelming and sometimes erratic season to successfully defend the title he had won two years ago, the German sending his 16lb implement out to a season's best of 21.73m in the fou...

The familiar sounds of Bob Marley rang around the Luzhniki Stadium in honour of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce after the brilliant Jamaican secured the sprint double in a dramatic final in which the three-time former champion A...

United States took control of the men's 4x400m final from the start of the race with their opener David Verburg bringing the baton to the first exchange in pole position.

USA's Alysia Johnson Montano, the second-fastest runner this season of those present in Moscow, was the gun-to-tape winner of the first semi-final, winning in a fast time of 1:58.92 and naturally pulling the two time qua...

The towering Tatyana Lysenko sent the home fans into ecstasy by mounting a thrilling defence of her title courtesy of the second-longest throw in history and a championship record inside a rocking Luzhniki Stadium.

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce makes it a sprint double with victory in the 200m, as Allyson Felix fails to finish.

Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce achieves the sprint double by winning the 200m in 22.17 seconds at the World Championships in Moscow - to go with her 100m crown.

Great Britain's Mo Farah holds off the challenge of Kenya's Isiah Kiplangat Koech to claim gold in the 5,000m at the World Championships in Moscow.

Mo Farah is the dominant force in distance running, but now he must break world records, says sports editor David Bond

Rolling report: Mo Farah won the 5,000m final in Moscow to become the double world and Olympic champion Jacob Steinberg

• Briton adds another gold after his victory in 10,000m• Olympic champion holds off rivals in Moscow Mo Farah completed a dream double-double on Friday evening by winning his second gold medal of the World Championsh...

After years in the wilderness Great Britain have a great chance of a medal in the women's 4x100m relay in Moscow It has been 30 years since a British women's quartet last won a sprint relay medal at the world championshi...

Adam Gemili becomes only the second British man to run 200m in under 20 seconds as he wins his semi-final at the World Championships in Moscow.

• Gemili runs 19.98 seconds in 200m semi-final• Becomes only the second Briton to break 20 seconds barrier Adam Gemili ran the fastest 200m by a Briton for 19 years as he broke the 20-second barrier to roar into the ...