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Caterine Ibarguen emulated her feat from the recent IAAF Diamond League final, adding a win in the long jump to the victory she achieved in the triple jump a day earlier. Second in the preliminary round, the Colombian ke...

Various innovations and changes in format resulted in two entertaining days of action at the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018, but ultimately the teams from Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific could not compete with the mig...

Team Americas win the IAAF Continental Cup in the Czech Republic, beating defending champions Europe by 29 points.

Noah Lyles ended his 100m breakout season on a high, battling Su Bingtian of China and Team Asia-Pacific to add the IAAF Continental Cup title to his growing collection of accolades.

Had Team Americas not already played, and won, on their joker for the men's events on the second day, then Paul Chelimo and Mohammed Ahmed would have done them proud in the men's 3000m, where they took first and second p...

Lyu Huihui closed out a great year with victory in the women's javelin in the final field event of the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018, the Asia-Pacific thrower getting the best of Europe's Christin Hussong in the head...

Gong Lijiao added a Continental Cup win to her World Championships title as she came through for victory in the shot put in Ostrava. Gong only had the third best mark of the day overall at 19.63m, but she delivered when ...

Running with the composed confidence of a world champion, Elijah Manangoi dispatched his rivals from around the globe for the second straight year with a peerless performance to win the 1500m at the IAAF Continental Cup ...

Shamier Little, beaten to the Diamond League women's 400m hurdles title in Zurich last month by her US colleague Dalilah Muhammad, the Rio 2016 champion, suffered another narrow defeat here.

The reigning Olympic and European champion Thomas Rohler did not disappoint in the men's javelin throw. Despite having to battle hard throughout the three phases of the competition, the German came through with a best of...

Abdalelah Haroun finished powerfully to take the men's 400m title here in 44.73.

Running down Dafne Schippers over the final 40 metres, Shaunae Miller-Uibo extended her unbeaten streak to 10 races this season with her convincing victory in the 200m.

Rising 21-year-old pole vault talent Timur Morgunov may have won European silver in a personal best of 6.00m and overall IAAF Diamond League victory in the space of the last month, but on this occasion the authorised neu...

Team Europe got action on the track off to a sizzling start courtesy of Sergey Shubenkov and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde's 1-3 finish to take double points after playing one of their two jokers in the event. But they had to ...

It was clear from his very first effort in the men's triple jump that world and Olympic champion Christian Taylor, representing Team Americas with a metaphorical joker on his back, was not going to be beaten today.

Anything other than victory by Mariya Lasitskene would be a major upset in any high jump competition. The world and European champion has lost just one out of her last 50 competitions, and she maintained that record in O...

A masterful display of control and consistency earned Tajikistan's 36-year-old Rio 2016 champion Dilshod Nazarov victory in the men's hammer as Team Europe's Wojciech Nowicki, who tops the 2018 world list with 81.85m, fa...

A masterful display of control and consistency earned Tajikistan's 36-year-old Rio 2016 champion Dilshod Nazarov victory in the men's hammer as Team Europe's Wojciech Nowicki, who tops the 2018 world list with 81.85m, fa...

Tania Farah, wife of multiple Olympic champion Mo, says their children are more excited to see her run than their dad after she completed the Great North Run.

Mo Farah wins a record fifth Great North Run in a course record 59 minutes 26 seconds on Sunday.

Mo Farah seals an unprecedented fifth consecutive Great North Run victory in a course record of 59 minutes 26 seconds in Newcastle.

World U20 champion Rhonex Kipruto sped to a convincing victory at the Birell Prague Grand Prix, confirming his status as one of the world's most promising distance runners by coming within two seconds of the world record...