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First round heats, especially in the 800m, where there are three races to negotiate before the medals are awarded, are all about doing just enough to progress. None of the athletes with realistic medal hopes like to exer...

America's Christian Taylor takes gold in the men's triple jump beating compatriot Will Claye with a jump of 17.68m at the World Athletics Championships in London.

Turkey's Ramil Guliyev beats South Africa's Wayne van Nierkerk to win a shock 200m gold with Botswana's Isaac Makwala back in sixth.

Watch as Great Britian's Dina Asher-Smith finishes second in her 200m semi-final to qualify for Saturday's final.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo bounces back from her 400m disappointment to qualify for the 200m final, while Great Britain's Bianca Williams misses out after finishing sixth.

• Former UKA science head Jamie Pringle: conditions may have led to spasm• Shaunae Miller-Uibo shows no ill-effects in qualifying for 200m final Shaunae Miller-Uibo was at a loss to explain her Devon Loch style break...

• 'Mentally I was very positive for this race. I felt fine apart from that last lap'• Eilish McColgan qualified for the final when running personal best time We have become used to seeing Laura Muir curled up in the ...

Great Britain's Eilish McColgan lowers her personal best by five seconds to qualify for Sunday's 5,000m final at the World Athletics Championships.

Great Britain's Laura Muir collapses to the ground after finishing seventh in her World Athletics Championships 5,000m heat, but qualifies for Sunday's final as a fastest loser.

You can add Kori Carter's name to the growing list of surprise winners at the IAAF World Championships London 2017. The 25-year-old certainly surprised early leader and world leader Dalilah Muhammad down the homestretch,...

Standing at trackside fronting Eurosport's coverage of day seven of the IAAF World Championships London 2017, Jonathan Edwards need not have worried.

Thankfully, this time there was no home-straight heartache for Shaunae Miller-Uibo.

Report: men's javelin throw qualification - IAAF World Championships London 2017

It was an unusually substandard showing in this event which cost Katarina Johnson-Thompson a medal in the heptathlon but the Brit made no mistake in qualifying for the individual final on Sunday evening.

It may not have been billed as one of the highlights of the seventh day of the IAAF World Championships London 2017, but the women's 5000m heats ended up being far more entertaining than many had expected.

From the roads to the track - and back again - there seems little that can quell the success of the lady we have come to regard as the queen of distance running: Tirunesh Dibaba.

More than 70 people representing 17 organisations, federations and cities interested in hosting future editions of the IAAF World Championships are currently participating in a week-long Observer Programme that coincides...

The International Olympic Committee should do more than fine Russia over the doping scandal, says Wada athletes' committee chair Beckie Scott.

Isaac Makwala came out of quarantine to qualify for the 200m semifinals with a solo run of 20.20 before the main programme commenced and then 20.14 - from lane one - in his semifinal, finishing 0.02 behind Isiah Young.

Never meet your heroes, they say, or you'll only be disappointed.

Boasting a proud and long-lasting relationship with the IAAF World Championships, TDK have been at the very heart of the biennial event since the inaugural and unforgettable first edition in Helsinki, Finland.

Even torrential rain could not dampen the excitement on day six at the IAAF World Championships London 2017, as Phyllis Francis romped to a shock victory in a competitive women's 400m while Karsten Warholm front-ran his ...