As she sat alongside the two American athletes whom she had left almost ten metres down the track after she claimed her first global gold, the new World 400m hurdles champion Zuzana Hejnova , the London 2012 Olympic Games bronze medallist explained tha...

No woman for 22 years has completed the 100m/200m sprint double at a World Championships but Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce remains on track to achieve that feat after easing, almost effortlessly, through her first round heats.

Abeba Aregawi became the first Swedish athlete to win a middle distance gold, or medal of any colour, when she captured the IAAF World Championships 1500m in dominant style on Thursday night.

The best throw of the men s Javelin qualification in Moscow was seen early, in the first round of group A, by one of the gold medal favourites here, Tero Pitkamaki.

Friday evening s session of the IAAF World Championships here at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow could be the Allyson Felix show, but nothing gets a crowd excited like a relay, and Mo Farah, two sets of throwers, and the ever-popular Long Jump are all on th...

There will be 13 women in Saturday s final as common sense prevailed on Thursday morning after that number of women cleared 1.92m.