Athletics News

Watch Jessica Ennis-Hill's journey to winning heptathlon gold at the World Championships in Beijing.

Watch Great Britain's Laura Muir qualify for the 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships.

Usain Bolt overcomes a poor start to qualify for the 100m final at the World Athletics Championships.

The combined scores of Katy French, Samantha Murray and Freyja Prentice earned Great Britain the women's team gold medal in the modern pentathlon.

BBC Sport's Michael Johnson says Justin Gatlin "gave away" the 100m final at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing as Usain Bolt won in 9.79 seconds.

Usain Bolt has described his World Championship 100m final victory over Justin Gatlin as the hardest race of his career.

Watch some of the weird and wonderful moments from the second day of action at the World Athletics Championships.

Watch Jessica Ennis-Hill's journey to heptathlon gold at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

Let's get that one moment out of the way: the moment Usain Bolt crossed the line.

Great Britain's Nick Miller finishes outside the medal places in the Men's Hammer Throw Final as Pawel Fajdek of Poland takes gold with a a throw of 80.88m

Two fastest athletes in the history of the event, David Rudisha and Nijel Amos, by the will of the draw, had to meet in the semi-finals. After Sunday's race, one of them continues his run for IAAF World Championships, Be...

The sound you did not hear was the sound of Usain Bolt's empire come crashing down.

Pawel Fajdek, one of the warmest favourites at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 lived up to his billing to claim a commanding victory with a best of 80.88m and become the third man in history to retain this titl...

Joe Kovacs remembers vividlyJoe Kovacs remembers vividly where he was the last time a global athletics event was held in the Bird's Nest stadium. where he was the last time a global athletics event was held in the Bird's...

BBC reporter Phil Jones comforts a tearful Katarina Johnson-Thompson after the British heptathlete completes the 800m.

Justin Gatlin wins his 100m semi-final at the World Championships, but Britons CJ Ujah and Richard Kilty fail to reach the final.

Usain Bolt's path to the 100m final at the World Championships almost came to an untimely end when he stumbled his way through the first semi-final at the Bird's Nest stadium on Sunday night.

The summer so far has been dominated by American hurdlers but despite the fact that two representatives of Team USA made the final, a changing of the guard looks distinctly possible in Beijing as the semi-finals saw fast...

Mo Farah says he had to "dig deep" in order to secure Great Britain's first gold at the World Athletics Championships.

Great Britain's Niall Flannery fails to make the final of the 400m hurdles, finishing fourth in his semi-final at the World Athletics Championships.

When Jessica Ennis-Hill last appeared at a World Championships, she fell out of gold medal contention during the javelin. Here, she did exactly what she needed to do in that event to remain on course to win her second wo...

Shot putters, generally, are not morning people and it showed on Sunday as only three men passed the automatic qualifying distance of 20.65m, with USA's 2015 world leader Joe Kovacs leading the way with 21.36m.