Ethiopia’s world 10,000 metres world record holder Letesenbet Gidey earned a World Athletics Championships title to go with it in Eugene as she held off a top-class field that included Kenya’s double world 5,000m gold medallist Hellen Obiri and defending champion Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands to win in 30min 09.34sec.

The Irena Szewińska Memorial in Bydgoszcz produced the expected thunderous hammer-throwing action tonight as three-times Olympic women’s champion Anita Wlodarczyk maintained her unbeaten run and Olympic men’s champion Wojciech Nowicki narrowly beat compatriot and four-times world champion Pawel Fajdek.

Andre De Grasse held off three United States sprinters, including world champion Noah Lyles, to become the first Canadian winner of the men's Olympic 200 metres title since Percy Williams in 1928.

Eighteen-year-old Namibian Christine Mboma produced a startling performance at tonight’s Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz as she won the women’s 400 metres by half the length of the finishing straight in 48.54sec - a world under-20 record and the fastest run so far this year.

The latest monumental meeting of home hammer-throwing stars will be the centre of attention at tomorrow’s Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in Bydgoszcz.

Christian Taylor, the double Olympic and four-times world triple jump champion, is in the line-up in Hungary tomorrow at the second World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season.

The Polish University Sports Association (AZS) has honoured the individuals and organisations who contributed most to the development of university sport over the past year at its Annual Gala in the city of Opole.

In the Stadium where she won Olympic long jump gold five years ago, Brittney Reese of the United States claimed her fourth International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships title after a third-round effort of 7.02 metres earned her victory in a hugely competitive final.

France will seek to make sporting history in Lille this weekend as the country targets a first victory in the European Athletics Team Championship it hosts here from tomorrow until June 25. 

Conseslus Kipruto maintained Kenya’s great tradition in the Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase here as he became his country’s ninth consecutive winner in an Olympic record of 8min 03.28sec.

No, Usain Bolt is not the saviour of athletics: he has been doing what he does since 2008, if not earlier, and the sport is at a much lower ebb now than it was then.

Hosts Russia hold a five points overnight lead over defending champions Germany, 186-181, in the European Team Championships in Cheboksary followng  the opening day of competition which saw five event records beaten and one equalled.