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Report: women's 400m final - IAAF World Championships London 2017

Russian long jumper Darya Klishina tells BBC Sport about competing in Rio 2016 and as a 'neutral' athlete at London 2017.

It may have taken the defending champion two throws to find his groove, but event favourite Pawel Fajdek of Poland threw the second furthest in qualification with 76.82m. It was a distance only bettered by his team-mate ...

Karsten Warholm wins Norway's first World Athletics Championships track gold in 30 years with a perfectly-paced race to come home in 48.35 seconds in the 400m hurdles.

• Makwala successfully negotiates lone time trial and semi-final• Farah through to 5,000m final despite legs feeling stiff from 10,000m win Isaac Makwala illustrated powers of recovery worthy of Lazarus as he lifted ...

Gong Lijiao becomes the shot put world champion with a throw of 19.94m.

The governing body of athletics has mishandled the Makwala affair, but at least it has diverted attention away from Justin Gatlin It is a good reflection of the rising levels of crazy at these world championships that a ...

Wayde van Niekerk qualifies for the 200m final as a fastest loser after finishing third in his semi-final at the World Athletics Championships.

Botswana's Isaac Makwala says he is still heartbroken over missing the World Championships 400m final because of a norovirus outbreak, despite his reaching the 200m final.

Mo Farah cruises through his heat to reach Saturday's final of the 5,000m at the World Athletics Championships.

Artificial unintelligence | Athletics | Donald Trump goes down to The Wire | John Major's civic conservatism | Pieceword | Ejaculation Reading Stephen Buranyi's article (Rise of the racist robots, G2, 8 August) reminded ...

After his unexpected fourth place in the world championship 800m final, young Briton has his sights set on success at multiple distances The morning after Kyle Langford's thunderous charge brought him within inches of a ...

The shocked look on Karsten Warholm's face as he crossed the finish line said it all.

Wayde van Niekerk, seeking to match Michael Johnson's 1995 achievement of earning world 200m and 400m titles, squeezed through to tomorrow night's 200m final as the slowest qualifier on a rain-swept night when the man pr...

Report: men's 5000m heats - IAAF World Championships London 2017

Darya Klishina and her former training partner Tianna Bartoletta, the Olympic and defending champion, led the qualifiers for Friday's women's long jump final. But on a night when ceaseless rain from a leaden sky turned t...

Ethiopia's Sofia Assefa, a silver medallist here at the London 2012 Games and a bronze medallist a year later at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, was the highest profile casualty women's 3000m steeplechase heats t...

Botswana's Isaac Makwala, who was barred from competing for 48 hours because of norovirus, reaches the 200m semi-finals by running a one-man time trial.

Botswana's Isaac Makwala has been given the chance to run an individual 200m time trial at the World Championships.

Athlete Isaac Makwala says his "heart is breaking" after attempts to stem a norovirus outbreak cost him a chance to win a world title.

Critics of the host nation's World Championships medal haul should "look at the bigger picture", says Great Britain captain Eilidh Doyle.

August 2014 in Zurich. The occasion is the European Championship 800m final, and France's Pierre-Ambroise Bosse has a strong lead with 200m to go. He is the man in form, the favourite for gold. Only a month earlier he cl...