Athletics News

Great Britain's Morgan Lake and Dina Asher-Smith win gold medals at the World Junior Championships in the United States.

Akela Jones made history by becoming the first athlete from Barbados to win a medal of any colour at the IAAF World Junior Championships as she won the long jump final with a leap of 6.34m.

Jiri Sykora made history by becoming the first Czech male athlete to win gold in the history of the IAAF World Junior Championships and he did so in impressive fashion by breaking the championship record with 8135 points...

Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith ran 11.23 to take the women's 100m title in a dominating blocks-to-finish performance.

Alemitu Haroye continued Ethiopia's successful tradition in distance running by winning the 5000m title with a time of 15:10.08, the seventh victory for Ethiopian runners in 10 editions of the event which came on to the ...

Alyona Shamotina won the women's hammer title with a 66.05m effort in the fifth round.

Morgan Lake added her own page to the book of British success in the heptathlon when she secured the world junior title with 6148 points, the highest ever score by a youth athlete in a heptathlon with senior implements a...

On the second day of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, when eight gold medals were decided, there was plenty to excite the enthusiastic crowd in Hayward Field and plenty of debate about who should take pr...

Kendal Williams of the host USA ran 10.21 to win the men's 100m final at the end of the second day of competition at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014. Williams led a US 1-2 sweep, as team-mate Trayvon Bro...

Cedric Dubler regained the lead with two events remaining as the Australian reached a lifetime best of 4.80m in the pole vault, 20cm higher than his previous best.

Czech Republic's Anezka Drahotova produced the first world junior record* of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, by taking the 10,000m race walk with a time of 42:47.25 to smash the former mark of 42:59.48,...

The heptathlon javelin was highlighted by Turkmenistan's Irina Velihanova and her 44.72m throw in the third round, the longest throw in the two pools and a national junior record, but the significant results began with t...

Cuba's Yorgelis Rodriguez, the defending world junior heptathlon champion, did what she needed to do in the long jump, reaching 6.19m in the second round.