Athletics News

Ireland's Kate O'Connor reacts to winning a heptathlon silver medal at the World Athletics Championships.

Ireland's Kate O'Connor fights back the tears as she celebrates her historic heptathlon silver medal at the end of a "whirlwind" World Athletics Championships.

Highlights from the day 8 of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Emmanuel Wanyonyi sets a championship record to take gold for Kenya in the men's 800m as Great Britain's Max Burgin runs a personal best to finish sixth at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team look at what went wrong for Great Britain's relay squads at the Tokyo World Athletics Championship.

Katarina Johnson- Thompson shares what it means to win bronze in the women's heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo and the mental resilience it takes to continue competing.

Kenya's Beatrice Chebet wins gold in the women's 5000m with team-mate Faith Kipyegon claiming silver and Italy's Nadia Battocletti takes bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Great Britain's world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson shares third place with USA's Taliyah Brooks after her 800m time brings the two equal on 6,581 points overall at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo...

Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins an emotional fourth global heptathlon medal in unprecedented circumstances as she shares world bronze in Tokyo.

Ireland's Kate O'Connor claims a historic silver medal in the women's heptathlon with a superb performance at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Olympic champions the USA fail to qualify for the men's 4x400m relay final after a baton blunder but Great Britain's quartet make it through.

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson has dropped to fourth in the heptathlon after the javelin at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.