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While many in Doha anticipated the coronation of rising long jump star Juan Miguel Echevarria here in Doha, it was instead Tajay Gayle who beat him to the punch courtesy of a stunning Jamaican record of 8.69m - the longe...

Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands took everything the top Kenyans and Ethiopians could throw at her and withstood it all to win her first global outdoor gold in what was only her second 10,000m race here at the IAAF World ...

Running in only her second 10,000m race, Sifan Hassan repelled all the opposition could throw at her to land her maiden world outdoor title in a barnstorming final.

• Controversial American sprinter wins in 9.76sec• Justin Gatlin takes silver and Andre De Grasse bronze The king is dead. Long live the king. Athletics has been scavenging for an undisputed holder of the fastest man...

Jamaica's Tajay Gayle wins gold in the men's long jump final with a jump of 8.69m at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.

American Christian Coleman wins the men's 100m title in 9.76 seconds with compatriot Justin Gatlin second and Canada's Andre de Grasse third at the World Athletics Championships.

Christian Coleman shrugs off the controversy of his build-up to the World Championships to win the 100m final in 9.76 seconds.

There are "screams of celebration" in the women's hammer throw final as American DeAnna Price claims gold, while Poland's Joanna Fiodorow secures silver.

GB athlete Naomi Ogbeta meets Richard Kilty to see what secrets lurk in the sprinter's phone.

The United States had never won a medal in the women's hammer throw, or a title in any women's throws event at a World Championships. World leader DeAnna Price staked her claim on both early on and never relented to be c...

The first world record of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 came just half way through the second session of competition as USA won their heat of the mixed 4x400m on Saturday (28).

One of the world's foremost road race medical coordinators, Chris Troyanos, has endorsed the medical preparation for last night's women's marathon at the World Championships in Doha, saying that the approach to runner sa...

Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith wins her heat in 10.96 seconds to qualify for the 100m semi-finals at the World Championships in Doha.

World champion decathlete Kevin Mayer says holding the World Athletics Championships in Doha is a "disaster" because of the heat and sparse crowds.

Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich wins the women's marathon at the World Championships as 28 of the 68 starters withdraw in gruelling conditions in Doha.

Medal table, plus GB medallists and near misses at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.

Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich wins the women's marathon at the World Championships as 28 of the 68 starters withdraw in gruelling conditions in Doha.

A first midnight marathon at a world championship saw Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich earn her first major gold on the floodlit Corniche tonight, clocking 2:32:43 in testing heat and humidity.