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Team GB were caught by Cuba and Poland on the final leg Great Britain won the bronze medal in the 4x400m women’s relay event at the 2021 World Athletics Relays meet in Poland on Sunday. Jessie Knight brought home the medal on…
Russia’s former world indoor 1,500 metres champion Yelena Soboleva has been handed an eight-year ban after she violated anti-doping regulations, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Wednesday. Soboleva, who set the world indoor record in 2008, had previously received…
Thompson broke his personal best time while also qualifying for the Olympics Veteran Chris Thompson, who turns 40 next month, produced a masterful performance to win the British Olympic Marathon trials in the unusual surroundings of London’s Kew Gardens on Friday to…
Torun will host the 2021 European Indoor Athletics Championships The European Indoor Athletics Championships this weekend will provide welcome relief for athletics fans who have seen little of the sport in the past year. The 36th biennial event is taking place in Torun, Poland, providing…
Rohan Browning has run the fastest time ever by an Australian on home soil and will take on the fastest men in the world when he becomes the first Australian male to run the marquee 100-metre sprint at the Olympics in 17…
No overseas spectators will be permitted to attend this summer’s rearranged Olympic or Paralympic Games in Tokyo, officials have confirmed. An announcement was made following a meeting of representatives of the International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo…
Keely Hodgkinson led from the front to claim 800 metres gold for Great Britain on the final day of the European Indoor Championships in Torun. Four days after her 19th birthday, Hodgkinson held Polish pair Joanna Jozwik and Angelika Cichocka at bay…
Athletes and officials are set to be tested for Covid-19 every four days at the Tokyo Olympics – and fans will not be allowed to cheer or sing. Olympic chiefs published their guide for international sports federations on Wednesday. Those taking part…
British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith set a 60m world-leading time at the World Indoor Athletics Tour in Karlsruhe, Germany. Racing at an international meet for the first time since 2019, her winning time of 7.08 seconds equalled her personal best. It was also…
Australia’s top runners say athletes should not be able to jump the vaccine queue for their once-every-four-year chance to compete at the Olympics. Rising middle-distance star Stewart McSweyn and Brett Robinson, who on Tuesday night won his second national 10,000-metre title when…
Greg Rutherford says he has been inspired to help improve the lives of families and kids in lockdown by Marcus Rashford. The London 2012 Olympic champion is fronting a Sport England campaign to tackle a drop in children’s activity levels during the…
Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes has documented the days leading up to her testing positive for coronavirus, with the former mid-distance runner enduring seven days of different symptoms. Holmes, who won gold in the 800m and 1500m at Athens 2004, posted…