Athletics News

Elaine Thompson won her 14th straight 100m race at the Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme, the tenth stop of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League, in Rabat on Sunday (16).

Britain's Chijindu Ujah runs under 10 seconds in Rabat, Morocco to set a new meeting record and secure his third 100m Diamond League win of the season.

With 10 sets of medals on the line on the final day of the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017, there was plenty of excitement for the 60,000 capacity crowd in the Kasarani Stadium on Sunday.

Ethiopia stunned the hosts with a superb middle-distance performance on Sunday (16), with Selemon Barega producing a smart tactical race to win the boys' 3000m final at a packed Kasarani Stadium.

Gong Luying took China's third girls' long jump gold in the history of the World U18 Championships with a consistent series of jumps headed by a best of 6.37m. Gong, who entered the final with the best performance this y...

Matthias Orban of France lived up to expectations on Sunday (16) by dominating the boys' pole vault final on the last day of the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017.

Brittany Anderson of Jamaica ran 12.72, the fastest ever 100m hurdles time by an U18 athlete, in winning the final.

In the final event of the championships, it was not the hosts Kenya, or indeed the sprint superpowers Jamaica or South Africa who would have the last laugh, but outsiders Brazil who controlled the race from start to fini...

South Africa stormed to another one-two in the 200m final on Sunday, though 100m medallists Retshidisitswe Mlenga and Tshenolo Lemao swapped positions, closing out the nation's dominance in the boys' short-sprint events ...

Marisleisys Duarthe could have retired from the girls' javelin final after the first round and she would have still walked away with the gold medal. But the Cuban continued churning out big throws round after round in an...

• Welshman wins T42 discus with throw of 51.54m• Shot put glory on Saturday would seal historic hat-trick Great Britain's stellar start to the World Para Athletics Championships continued on Sunday as Aled Davies com...

Being the youngest in the field didn't deter Talea Prepens, nor did the fact that it was just the sixth 200m final of her fledgling career. The 15-year-old produced her second PB of the championships to win the girls' 20...

On the surface, it shouldn't make sense. The high jump, we have long been taught, is an event where height is not just an asset but an essential ingredient in becoming world class. Every so often, though, an athlete come...