Athletics

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Seven gold medals were decided on the penultimate night of action at the London stadium, with the Great Britain men’s and USA women’s sprint relay teams, Australia’s sprint hurdler Sally Pearson and Germany’s Johannes...

As the 2017 World Championship brings this year's season almost to a close, team Ghana is so grateful to GNPC, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, National Sports Authority and World’s Fastest Humans for making it possible for Ghana...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Australia's Sally Pearson stunned favourite and world record holder Kendra Harrison to the women's 100m hurdles title. Sally took the crown with 12.59s while America's Dawn Harper Nelson came second with 12.63s, followed by...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Ghana's women's 4x100m relay team came 6th in heat 1 of the women's 4x100m relay in season best 43.68(SB) at the IAAF World Championships London 2017. The quartet made up of Flings Owusu-Agyapong, Gemma Acheampong,...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Results of the men's hammer throw: POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK DETAIL ATTEMPT 1 ATTEMPT 2 ATTEMPT 3 ATTEMPT 4 ATTEMPT 5 ATTEMPT 6 1 1238 Pawel FAJDEK POL 79.81 X 77.09 79.73 79.81 79.40 X 2 615 Valeriy PRONKIN ANA 78.16 77.00 77.20 75.71 76.25 77.98 78.16 3 1248 Wojciech NOWICKI POL 78.03 76.36 76.54 78.03 76.19 X X 4 917 Quentin BIGOT FRA 77.67 77.05 76.26 77.46 77.67 X 76.87 5 618 Aleksei SOKYRSKII ANA 77.50 SB 76.22 77.50 77.15 X X X 6 968 Nick MILLER GBR 77.31 X 75.78 77.31 X 76.16 X 7 1318 Dilshod NAZAROV TJK 77.22 76.33 77.22 75.36 76.01 77.14 74.91 8 1183 Serghei MARGHIEV MDA 75.87 75.40 75.87 75.80 75.85 74.57 X 9 702 Pavel BAREISHA BLR 75.86 74.35 75.86 X 10 1063 Marco LINGUA ITA 75.13 69.64 75.13 X 11 1036 Bence HALÁSZ HUN 74.45 70.89 X 74.45 12 1342 Özkan BALTACI TUR 74.39 73.17 72.90 74.39 11 AUG 2017 20:30  ORDER / LANE BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY SB 2017 PB 1 702 Pavel BAREISHA BLR 78.04 78.60 2 618 Aleksei SOKYRSKII ANA 76.23 78.91 3 1342 Özkan BALTACI TUR 76.61 76.61 4 968 Nick MILLER GBR 77.51 77.55 5 1183 Serghei MARGHIEV MDA 77.70 78.72 6 1248 Wojciech NOWICKI POL 80.47 80.47 7 917 Quentin BIGOT FRA 77.87 78.58 8 1318 Dilshod NAZAROV TJK 77.81 80.71 9 1063 Marco LINGUA ITA 77.23 79.97 10 615 Valeriy PRONKIN ANA 79.32 79.32 11 1238 Pawel FAJDEK POL 83.44 83.93 12 1036 Bence HALÁSZ HUN 78.85 78.85

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airline, London 2017. Men's 1500m Semi-Finals Elijah Manangoi (KEN) – 1st Heat 1 "I ran a lot better than yesterday, but today was a lot more tactical. I just tried to keep myself out of danger and push over...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Day one of the decathlon features the 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m. The retirement of Ashton Eaton, two-time world and Olympic champion, means that a new face will rise to...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. The long jumpers got quite the worst of Wednesday night’s weather. No one got the automatic qualifying distance of 6.70m. Tianna Barloletta went almost as close as anyone with 6.64m. The world and Olympic...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Update: Final results: POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK 1 4324 Emma COBURN USA 9:02.58 CR 2 4333 Courtney FRERICHS USA 9:03.77 PB 3 4079 Hyvin Kiyeng JEPKEMOI KEN 9:04.03 4 4075 Beatrice CHEPKOECH KEN 9:10.45 5 3705 Ruth JEBET BRN 9:13.96 6 4077 Celliphine Chepteek CHESPOL KEN 9:15.04 WU20R 7 3843 Etenesh DIRO ETH 9:22.46 8 3710 Winfred Mutile YAVI BRN 9:22.67 PB 9 3942 Gesa Felicitas KRAUSE GER 9:23.87 10 4083 Purity Cherotich KIRUI KEN 9:25.62 11 3611 Belén CASETTA ARG 9:25.99 AR 12 3624 Genevieve LACAZE AUS 9:26.25 SB 13 3729 Geneviève LALONDE CAN 9:29.99 NR 4040 Aisha PRAUGHT JAM DQ 3844 Birtukan FENTE ETH DNS Ruth Jebet ruled the roost last year, winning the Olympic title in Rio and setting a world record in Paris,...

Sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines, London 2017. Results update:World record-holder Kendra Harrison, former Olympic champion Sally Pearson all through to the semi finals of the women's 100m hurdles. HEAT 1 11 AUG 2017 19:05 WIND +0.5  POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK REACTION TIME 1 3632 Sally PEARSON AUS 12.53 Q 0.119 2 4311 Nia ALI USA 12.79 Q 0.158 3 4137 Nadine VISSER NED 12.83 q 0.175 4 4043 Megan SIMMONDS JAM 12.93 0.148 5 3726 Phylicia GEORGE CAN 13.04 0.117 6 3945 Ricarda LOBE GER 13.11 0.147 7 4146 Lindsay LINDLEY NGR 13.18 0.163 8 3665 Anne ZAGRE BEL 13.34 0.139 HEAT 2 11 AUG 2017 19:14 WIND...