Athletics News

Great Britain fail in their appeal against their disqualification from the Olympic men's 4x400m relay semi-final in Rio.

Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi wins women's pole vault gold at Rio 2016 as Great Britain's Holly Bradshaw finishes fifth.

Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot wins gold in the women's 5,000m, breaking the Olympic record with a time of 14 minutes 26.17 seconds.

The curtain may have fallen on the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, but athletics action will continue with the IAAF Diamond League circuit, which includes the Meeting de Paris on 27 August.

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Thirty-one medallists, including 10 Olympic champions, will compete at the Athletissima meeting on Thursday (25) for the first IAAF Diamond League meeting following the Olympics.

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Fans in Kingston, Jamaica celebrate Usain Bolt completing his triple treble of Olympic gold medals after winning in the men's 4x100m relay on Friday. After the victories in Rio, Bolt becomes the first man to win the 100m...

Allyson Felix wins another gold after US re-run their semi-final to qualify Young British team run national record; Jamaica take silver Glory in the women's 4x100m relay went to the United States, who ran the second fast...

Usain Bolt completed his triple triple by anchoring the Jamaican men's 4x100m to victory for the third time in as many Olympics.

Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov wins gold in the men's hammer final with an impressive 78.68m throw.

The final day of athletics at the Olympic stadium in Rio will see seven gold medals awarded in two short hours of action. Here's what to look out for on what could be a momentous day in Brazil.

Greece's Ekaterini Stefanidi wins pole vault gold.

On the evidence of the 4x400m heats, it will be no straight forward task for the USA to reclaim a title that they have won on 16 previous occasions.

Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot wins a shock 5,000m Olympic gold as race favourite Ayana Almaz of Ethiopia takes bronze.

There were no significant baton blunders or disqualifications in the women's 4x400m heats, but there will be one or two notable omissions from the final.

Former world youth champion Ekaterini Stefanidi of Greece finally delivered on all the rich promise she showed during a prodigious U18 and U20 career to land the gold medal on countback in an absorbing competition inside...

Many people had just assumed that Almaz Ayana would waltz her way to a second gold medal in similarly majestic fashion to the way she won the 10,000m in world record time a week ago, but Vivian Cheruiyot had other ideas.

USA had their problems in qualifying but once in the final they showed their sheer class by powering to an emphatic defence of their Olympic title from the tight inside lane.

This will not go down as a classic contest and it was the first time since 1984 that the event has been won with less than 80 metres but the gold medal was up for grabs after the prohibitive pre-Rio favourite Pawl Fajdek...

For 20 years he had dreamed of this, but only in the last two did he plan for it.

The three race walks at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games - won by Wang Zhen, Matej Toth and Liu Hong - were also points-scoring events for the 2016 IAAF Race Walking Challenge.