Botswana produced a brilliant performance to win the men’s world 4x400m relay in atrocious conditions on Sunday, edging out the United States and South Africa in a blanket finish to become the first African winner of the event. As rain hammered down, the U.S – who had scraped into the final after beating Kenya in…
Noah Lyles pulled ahead of Kenny Bednarek heading into the straightaway then held him off down the stretch to capture his fourth title in a much-awaited 200m at the World Athletics Championships on Friday night. Lyles finished in 19.52s for a .06-second margin over Bednarek, who led the final at the halfway point, fell behind…
When Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone powered though the final curve of the 400m final at the 2025 edition of the World Athletics Championships, she glanced to her right and saw something that hadn’t been there in a while. Another runner. She had a race on her hands. The best way to explain how McLaughlin-Levrone became the first…
Anderson Peters (GRN) – 89.53m Julian Weber (GER) – 87.21m Julius Yego (KEN) – 85.96m Dawid Wegner (POL) – 85.67m Arshad Nadeem (PAK) – 85.28m Neeraj Chopra (IND) – 84.95m Curtis Thompson (USA) – 84.72m Jakub Vadlejch (CZE) – 84.11m Keshorn Walcott (TTO) – 83.93m Sachin Yadav (IND) – 83.67m Cameron McEntyre (AUS) – 83.03m…
Even avid track fans might have checked their programs when that blur of red and green on the far outside started streaking to the lead with the finish line in sight. This year’s out-of-nowhere winner of the men’s 1500m hails from Portugal. It’s Isaac Nader, who ran five wide down the stretch on Wednesday night…
Oblique Seville expressed his delight at claiming Jamaica’s first men’s world sprint title in a decade in front of Usain Bolt, the man he described as his inspiration. Jamaican sprinting legend Bolt, with 11 World titles and eight Olympic gold medals to his name, was ecstatic as Seville ripped through the line at Tokyo’s National…
International Olympic Committee chief Kirsty Coventry says she is hoping for consensus among sports about protecting the female category, with fairness of competition the foremost consideration. Coventry said after her election as leader of the Olympic movement in June that the IOC would spearhead discussions on gender eligibility criteria in sports, four years after the…
Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics, on Friday said the organisation is sticking to its long-held position that Russian athletes won’t be allowed at the upcoming world championships and other big events until a peace settlement is reached in its war in Ukraine. Track and field’s hard-line stance is an outlier among Olympic sports,…
Karsten Warholm will be going all guns blazing for a record-extending fourth 400 metres hurdles world title in Tokyo this month, but the Norwegian will have his work cut out with two other generational talents in the field. Between them, Olympic champion Rai Benjamin, 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos and Warholm hold the 24…
Since his return from a knee injury sustained during training in April last year and the subsequent surgery in Qatar, India’s top long jumper Murali Sreeshankar has been having a good run. The 26-year-old from Kerala has won all three International meets he has participated in since July. His best has been the 8.13m jump…