Athletics News

Reigning European U-23 silver medallist Álvaro Martín took an emphatic win at the XXXI Gran Premio Cantones de La Coruña 2017, the Spanish leg of this year's IAAF Race Walking Challenge, on Saturday (3).

Fighting unseasonably warm conditions, Agnes Jeruto Barsosio of Kenya set a new race record to highlight the sixth Ceske Budejovice Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Saturday (3).

Lauryn Williams was seeking to defend her world 100m title at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Yet in one of the closest 100m finals in history, the diminutive American just missed out on gold by a fraction.

World U18 champion Sydney McLaughlin reduced her own world U20 record* in the 400m hurdles when running 54.03 at the NJSIAA Group Championships in Egg Harbor on Friday (2).

World indoor triple jump champion Yulimar Rojas came within six centimetres of her lifetime best when leaping 14.96m to win in Andujar on Friday (2).