The first version of a newly established Athletics World Cup finished in some disarray at London's Olympic Stadium as the host nation, in with a chance of finishing second overall from the eight countries involved, failed to start the concluding men's 4x400 metres.
Kenya's Solomon Lekuta took gold in the men's 800 metres on the final day of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland to seal his team's position at the top of the medals table with six golds.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) today released the results of, what they claim, is the largest biomechanical study in the sport’s history.
Poland's world and Olympic hammer throw champion Anita Wlodarczyk offered the inaugural Athletics World Cup event at London's Olympic Stadium some serious statistical credibility on the first of two evenings of competition as she produced a winning effort of 78.74 metres, the farthest thrown this year.
Sixteen-year-old Briana Williams, the surprise women's 100 metres champion at the World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, today became an even more unlikely double champion as she set a Championship record of 22.50sec in the 200m.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has approved applications from a further five Russian athletes to compete neutrally in 2018.
Britain earned three of the seven golds on offer during the fourth day of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships in the Finnish city of Tampere.
World 60 metres record holder Christian Coleman, back after a month's injury lay-off, re-staked his claim to be considered the fastest new sprinter on the block as he won the men's 100m in Rabat in a season's best time of 9.98sec that equalled the meeting record.
London is set to host the inaugural Athletics World Cup this weekend with eight nations ready to battle it out for honours.
The best men's 1,500 metres field ever assembled for an International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships produced the kind of spectacle that was expected in the Finnish city of Tampere as Kenya's George Manangoi marginally defeated another prodigiously talented middle distance runner, Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway.
Christian Coleman, the world's fastest man over 60 metres, returns to action tomorrow at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting in Rabat - and faces the three fellow Americans heading the season's world 100m lists.
Lalu Muhammad Zohri scooped Indonesia's first ever medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships in Tampere and did so in style by winning the showpiece men's 100 metres.
Bobsleigh and skeleton could be re-established as "active sports" in Denmark as part of a new initiative by the national governing body.
Kenya took double gold on an opening day of the International Association of Athletics Federations World Under-20 Championships in the Finnish city of Tampere in which a record on the track and a one centimetre margin of victory in the field topped the bill.
Athletics will continue its hunt for a fresh megastar when the World Under-20 Championships begin tomorrow in the Finnish city of Tampere.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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