Athletics News

After a comfortable and confident run, Olympic champion and 2017 world leader Dalilah Muhammad emerged from the 400m hurdles semi-finals as a strong favourite for Thursday evening's final.

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk defends his 400m title with a dominant victory at the World Championships in London.

Conseslus Kipruto of Kenyan storms to victory in the 300m Steeplechase final.

Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic wins a second World Championship gold medal in the women's javelin final - 10 years after her first.

Great Britain's Eilidh Doyle finishes third in the women's 400m hurdles semi-final but qualifies for the final as one of the fastest losers.

While the athletes run at night, the coaches meet in the morning.

Britain's Dina Asher-Smith is through to Wednesday's 200m semi-finals after running a season's best of 22.73 seconds in her heat at the World Championships.

Wayde van Niekerk underlined his status as one of the most extraordinary athletes currently operating in track and field as he successfully defended his world 400m title here without any of his talented rivals ever looki...

Due to a nagging injury which forced him to postpone his season's opener until late June, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse told the French media on his arrival in the British capital he was on a course of anti-inflammatories and th...

In his spare time - or, what spare time he has - Sam Kendricks is a second lieutenant in the US Army Reserve. In his day job, as an upwardly mobile athlete, the 24-year-old from Oxford, Mississippi, is the new commander ...

A decade after winning her first global crown at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Barbora Spotakova did it again in London to become just the third woman to claim the title more than once.

Following the last-gasp drama in the women's 100m final on Sunday, there ought to have ben two women in the hunt for famous sprint doubles at the IAAF World Championships London 2017: training partners Tori Bowie and Sha...

The automatic qualifying mark of 18.30m proved easy work for the three standout performers in the women's shot put - all of whom were undoubtedly pleased to qualify with their first throw on an unseasonably cold evening ...

Botswana's Isaac Makwala insists he is fit for Tuesday's World Championship 400m final despite being told to pull out of the 200m.

BBC Sport athletics pundits Michael Johnson, Denise Lewis and Paula Radcliffe discuss Caster Semenya and the issue of increased testosterone levels in women's athletics.

When Wayde van Niekerk opened his European season with an effortless-looking 43.62 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, few would have bet against him winning here.

For Dina Asher-Smith, the IAAF World Championships London 2017 in the London Stadium was always going to be a poignant affair.

Criticism of Justin Gatlin's world 100m triumph by IAAF president Lord Coe was "inhumane", says the athlete's agent.

Faith Kipyegon's triumph in a dramatic women's 1500m final capped a thrilling fourth day of action at the IAAF World Championships London 2017 on Monday (7), which included gold-medal winning performances by Omar McLeod,...

A late surge from South Africa's Caster Semenya saw Laura Muir fall agonisingly short of winning a medal in the women's 1500m final, won by Faith Kipyegon of Kenya. Earlier in the day, Jamaica's Omar McLeod added the Wor...