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• Coe: 'This is not a witch hunt, as nobody is cheating here'• 'Responsibility of the IAAF to create level playing field in female sport' Sebastian Coe has insisted the IAAF is right to go to the courts to ensure tha...

Watch as the British quartet of Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita take silver in the women's 4x100m relay, with the United States winning gold.

Watch Mo Farah reflect on an "amazing journey" after ending his major championship track career with a 5,000m silver at the World Athletics Championships.

Watch Maria Lasitskene win gold with 2.03m in the women's high jump final, with Ukraine's Yuliia Levchenko taking silver.

Watch Great Britain's Mo Farah take silver in the men's 5,000m in his final competitive appearance at the World Athletics Championships.

• Briton fails to add to 10,000m success in final major run on the track• Farah, winner of four world and Olympic doubles, beaten by Muktar Edris Mo Farah missed out on the 5,000m and 10,000m double at the World Athl...

Watch Australia's Sally Pearson win gold in the women's 100m hurdles in 12.60 seconds at the World Athletics Championships.

Just when you thought these drama-laden IAAF World Championships London 2017 could hardly get any more surreal, up pops the sight of a British runner, born in the Borough of Newham, the district of the London Stadium, bu...

Tori Bowie took her second gold medal of the IAAF World Championships London 2017, anchoring the USA 4x100m team to victory in a world-leading 41.82, as they regained the crown that they last secured in Daegu six years a...

There's a neat symmetry to Mo Farah's career as a global medalist. Following a pulsating 5000m race in front of a vocal and passionate crowd at the IAAF World Championships London 2017, 10 gold medals over 5000m and 10,0...

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last year Johannes Vetter shed tears of frustration as he missed out on the bronze medal by 6cm in fourth place. Twelve months on, in the London Stadium on the penultimate night of ...

With the 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper-Nelson of the USA, Australia's 2012 Olympic champion Sally Pearson and the USA's world record-holder Kendra Harrison part of a top class line up, the women's 100m hurdles was ti...

The theme of upsets continued into the penultimate day of the IAAF World Championships London 2017, but Maria Lasitskene coolly retained her world title in the high jump with a first-time clearance at 2.03m.

He doesn't like the cold, Steven Gardiner. Not many Bahamians do.

If ever there was an example of how perilous the decathlon could be, the pole vault in London is it.

Usain Bolt leads home Jamaica safely through to the men's 4x100m final after winning their heat at the World Athletics Championships in London.

Kevin Mayer's overall lead might be down to just 24 points, but the Olympic silver medallist won't be worried as he heads into the three last decathlon disciplines.

The United States qualified fastest for tomorrow night's concluding event at these Championships, the men's 4x400m final, in 2:59.23, the best time run in the world so far this season, with Trinidad and Tobago second fas...

Just as has been the case in four of the past five IAAF World Championships, the battle for gold looks likely to be between the USA and Jamaica.

Seven days after the deflating experience of a surprise defeat in his final individual race, the fastest man in history was back on the track in the London Stadium in the day nine morning session at these 2017 IAAF World...

There are usually casualties in the sprint relay heats at the IAAF World Championships and London 2017 was no different in that regard, with the Bahamas quartet failing to finish the second of two races after a poor seco...

The second day of the decathlon started with disaster for two of the medal contenders.