One of the biggest head-to-head clashes in athletics that the world is yet to see is between Sally Pearson and Brianna Rollins.

Long jumpers usually don t like morning qualifying rounds and so quite a few had problems getting their motors started on Wednesday as only three men went over the automatic qualifying distance of 8.10m.

At many major championships, the heats of the men s 1500m has its fair share of trips, falls and shock exits. But there was none of that this morning in the first round of the event as the three men with sub-3:30 PBs won each of the three heats.

The yellow and blue clad Ukraine supporters massed in the main stand of the Luzhniki Stadium made all the difference to their heptathlete Ganna Melnichenko as she knocked three seconds off her best time in the concluding 800m to win gold ahead of the a...

Robert Heffernan cast aside a history of fourth-place finishes and broke a 30-year Irish men s gold medal drought when he won the 50km Race Walk on Wednesday morning.

World record-holder Betty Heidler was the major casualty of a high-quality qualification session, which brought a premature end to the competition for several prominent names.