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Three victories on the concluding day of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 - from 100m hurdler Nia Ali and the men's and women's 4x400m teams - bolstered the United States' position at the top of the medal...

• Coe defends the sport's approach to catching drug cheats• IAAF president also cautions criticism of Sifan Hassan Sebastian Coe says he has not yet read the report that led to Alberto Salazar being banned for four y...

Britain end their World Championships campaign with six medals after the women's 4x400m relay team win bronze.

A key whistle-blower in the case which saw coach Alberto Salazar banned for four years for doping violations says the Nike Oregon Project he ran should be shut down.

The BBC secures the broadcast rights to the Oregon 2021 and Budapest 2023 IAAF World Athletics Championships.

Nia Ali causes a shock by winning the women's 100m hurdles final as pre-race favourite Danielle Williams takes bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.

Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei wins the men's 10,000m final and becomes his country's first track world champion at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.

IAAF President Sebastian Coe has described the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 as the best in history in terms of the quality and depth of performances produced by the athletes of more than 200 nations.

Returning to their vintage best, the USA regained the men's 4x400m world title with the fastest time for 11 years with a typically dominant performance.

Living to their favourite's billing, the US squad dominated the women's 4x400m relay, blitzing the field with a 3:18.92 world-leading performance.

The 'supermom' theme that had been set at the start of the championships by some of the first few winners of women's titles had a reprise in the final individual track event of the week.

In a brutal race of attrition, Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda capped a glorious year by securing the world 10,000m title to add to the world cross-country crown he secured in March.

Anderson Peters maintained his streak of 2019 championship success by securing the world title to become Grenada's second world champion after one-lap star Kirani James.

Timothy Cheruyiot led from gun to tape here tonight to add a world 1500m gold to the silver he collected two years ago, finishing fully two seconds clear of an eye-wateringly good field to clock 3:29.26, half a second of...

Malaika Mihambo landed among the all-time greats after a dominating performance in the women's long jump final on the final evening of the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.

Every once in a while, a competition takes place that redefines an event. 28 years ago, at the IAAF World Championships Tokyo 1991, Mike Powell and Carl Lewis were locked in an epic duel in the long jump, which saw the l...

When Ellie Pashley first set foot on Doha soil, her first thought was: "Thank God I'm not doing the marathon." Nothing unusual there. Even for those who had acclimatised in warmer conditions, as Pashley had with a traini...

Callum Hawkins narrowly missed out on a World Championships marathon medal after doing much of his training in a shed behind his house.

The IAAF is pleased to announce the results of the results of the IAAF Athletes' Commission elections which took place in Doha during the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.

Golden moments on the track can't disguise a deeply flawed event in Doha Major sports events tend to follow the same, inviolable narrative. In the build-up, the projections are universally doom-laden. Media reports focus...

Hawkins finished fourth, as he did at London worlds in 2017 Lelisa Desisa took gold for Ethiopia in a time 2:10.40 Callum Hawkins, the Scottish marathon runner who prepared for the brutal heat of Doha by training in his ...

Lelisa Desisa added a world marathon gold to the silver he won in Moscow six years ago as he and teammate Mosinet Geremew headed an Ethiopian one-two on the Corniche in conditions that were significantly more forgiving t...