There was a time when the great David Rudisha pondered if he would ever return to past glories.

Jamaica s Fedrick Dacres led the charge in the qualification rounds on Thursday morning, while the 2015 world leader Piotr Malachowski was close to giving himself a heart attack.

The leading medal contenders all breezed through a routine qualification session as the 13 women who cleared 1.92m all advanced to the final on Thursday morning. The automatic qualifying height was 1.94m but the referees made the wise decision not to p...

With a fairly easy qualification formula of the four fastest athletes in each of the five heats, plus the next four fastest athletes, progressing to the semi-finals on Friday, the first round of competition in the 100m hurdles didn t bring any major su...

Ivana Spanovic led the qualifiers on Thursday morning with a Serbian outdoor record of 6.91m but the principal talking point was the redemption of Great Britain s Katarina Johnson-Thompson after her meltdown in the heptathlon long jump when she was vyi...

Four races down, one to go for Genzebe Dibaba in her distance double mission.