London, Aug 13 (IANS) Young Ethiopian star Muktar Edris has beaten the all-dominating Mohamed Farah of Britain to win the men’s 5,000 metre title at the IAAF World Championships here. Edris, who was crowned world…
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Russia’s Maria Lasitskene retained the women’s high jump title at the World Athletics Championships here. The 24-year-old, competing as an authorized neutral athlete, cleared 2.03 meters for the gold medal on…
London, Aug 13 (IANS) The IAAF World Championships continues to yield surprises with Johannes Vetter of Germany winning the men’s javelin event as defending champion Julius Yego and Olympic champion Thomas Rohler failed to deliver….
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Su Bingtian, the third leg runner in China’s men’s 4x100m relay team, has alleged that he was hit on the head by Britain’s second leg runner Adam Gemili when the former…
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt suffered a injury midway into his anchor leg of the men’s 4×100 meters relay and pulled out of the last race of career at the World Athletics…
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Australia’s Sally Pearson has won her second world women’s 100 meters hurdles title in six years at the World Athletics Championships here. Pearson, 30, who won the world title in 2011…
lONDON, Aug 13 (IANS) Usain Bolt suffered a injury midway into his anchor leg of the men’s 4×100 metres relay and pulled out of the last race of career at the World Athletics Championships here…
London, Aug 12 (IANS) World champions Dafine Schippers and Pawel Fajdek defended their titles on Day 8 of the competition at the London world championships here. Dutch woman Schippers clocked a season best 22.05 seconds…
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Poland’s two-time reigning world champion Pawel Fajdek completed his title “hat-trick” with a convincing victory in the men’s hammer throw event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships here. The 28-year-old Fajdek…
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Poland’s two-time reigning world champion Pawel Fajdek completed his title hat-trick with a convincing victory in the men’s hammar event of the 2017 IAAF World Championships here. The 28-year-old Fajdek on…
Nairobi, Aug 12 (IANS) The ongoing 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships in London marked the retirement from track of two seasoned athletes. Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya ran the good race and…
London, Aug 12 (IANS) American Brittney Reese claimed her fourth women’s long jump world title at the World Athletics Championships here. Reese, who had previously won the event in 2009, 2011 and 2013, soared and…
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Olympic bronze medallist Emma Coburn of the United States cut nearly four seconds off the championships record en route to winning the women’s 3,000 meters steeplechase at the 2017 IAAF World…
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Holland’s Dafine Schippers retained the women’s 200 meters title at the World Athletics Championships here. Schipper, 25, clocked a season best 22.05 seconds for the title, adding to her 100m bronze….
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Darya Klishina, the Russian long jumper who competed at the London world championships as a neutral athlete autorised by the IAAF world governing body, said she was happy to focus only…
Nairobi, Aug 11 (IANS) Milcah Chemos, the former world champion in the women’s 3,000 metre steeplechase said on Friday with four elite athletes, Kenya was in a dominant position to decide the race and must…
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Legendary athlete Milkha Singh was on Friday appointed the World Health Organisation’s goodwill ambassador for physical activity in the South-East Asia Region, the WHO confirmed in a statement. “Promoting physical…
London, Aug 11 (IANS) The seventh day of competitions at the IAAF London world championships saw unheralded athletes stun big names as United States became the biggest winners with two one-two finishes. Ramil Guliyev staged…
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Underdog Kori Carter made a surprising lane nine move to bag the gold in the women’s 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Championships here. Carter on Thursday clocked 53.07…
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Ramil Guliyev won Turkey’s first gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships here as he shocked title favourite Wayde Van Niekerk of South Africa in the men’s 200 metres…