Strong winds and heavy rain descended on Gwangju for the final day of athletics at the World University Games on Sunday (12), but Russia still managed to add one more gold medal to their collection to easily top the athletics medals table.

Sprinters Mike Rodgers and Elaine Thompson were crowned as ‘the best performers at the 33rd Meeting de Madrid, the annual IAAF World Challenge meeting in the Spanish capital, on Saturday evening (11).

In a country as replete with top class heptathletes as Germany, Anna Maiwald will not be going to the IAAF World Championships in Beijing next month, but the University of Koln health economics research student proved to be top of her class in her even...

Kazakhstan s 100m champion Viktoriya Zyabkina added the 200m title to her medal tally in Gwangju on Friday (10), becoming the first woman since 1987 to achieve the sprint double at the World University Games.

It became increasingly clear during Thursday s outstanding IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne s Stade De La Pontaise that something very interesting is going on in the men s field events.

The first medal of the 2015 European Under-23 Championships went to Ali Kaya of Turkey, who wasted no time stamping his authority of the men s 10,000m final on the first night of competition in Tallinn on Thursday (9).