Athletics

An English athletics coach and former gold medallist said by media reports to be missing is serving a prison sentence in Morocco, BBC Sport can reveal. Leon Baptiste, who was coaching a clutch of top British track athletes in the run-up to this summer’s Commonwealth Games and European Championships, suddenly …

Available for over a year As the camera moved along the line-up before the 2025 World Indoor Long Jump final, Claire Bryant held up a sign she’d made. The Championships were being held in Nanjing, and Claire had decided to make a sign which said ‘Jesus’ in Mandarin. As she …

Georgia Hunter-Bell wins convincingly in the women’s 1500m to take gold for Great Britain, making herself uncatchable on the final stretch. BBC News

Great Britain take silver in both the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay, with the last lap of each race going right down to the wire. BBC News

Jeremiah Azu, Dina-Asher Smith, Zharnel Hughes and Amy Hunt run Great Britain to gold in the competition’s first ever mixed 4x100m relay, marking Hunt’s fourth gold medal in the 2026 European Athletics Championships. READ MORE: Athletics on BBC Sport Available to UK users only. BBC News

Germany’s Amanal Petros and Finland’s Alisa Vainio both set new championship records on their way to gold in the men and women’s marathons, on the final day of the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. WATCH MORE: Athletics on the BBC Available to UK users only. BBC News

Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson reflects on her European Championships, where her heptathlon was impacted by a lack of training due to injury. Despite that the 33-year-old expresses her love for the event and explains she is still hungry for more. READ MORE: Johnson-Thompson vows she still has hunger to compete …

There was a sense that Asher-Smith’s seamless baton changeover to Hunt was a symbolic moment, in its wider context. As one British sprint star achieved a piece of history a decade in the making, the other continued to demonstrate that she is only just getting started. Asher-Smith, a world champion …

Amy Hunt and Zharnel Hughes run as Great Britain’s women and men make the 4x100m relay finals later on Saturday with convincing qualifying heats. BBC News

In the women’s race walking, Sofia Fiorini of Italy smashes the marathon world record by more than nine minutes, with Maria Perez of Spain also setting a world record in the half-marathon, at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. READ MORE: Athletics on BBC Sport Available to UK users …

Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson says she has mixed emotions after settling for silver in the 800m final and says she is looks forward to her next race with Audrey Werro. READ MORE: Hodgkinson beaten to European gold by rival Werro Available to UK users only. BBC News

Germany’s Owen Ansah wins 200m gold in a time of 19.95 seconds, ahead of Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes who takes silver. BBC News

400m champion Matthew Hudson-Smith features as Great Britain qualify for the men’s 4 x 400m relay final, at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. BBC News

They say practice makes perfect, but for some athletes that means more than just training to be as fast as possible. For many, it’s also about what you wear or how you accessorise with things like jewellery. So can getting glammed up help your performance? British sprinter Amy Hunt certainly …

Great Britain’s Jake Wightman, Jake Heyward and Arlo Ludewick all qualify for Saturday night’s 1500m final at the European Championships in Birmingham. BBC News

“It’s just not quite there for Kat at the moment,” Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford said on BBC TV. “She doesn’t really know, I don’t think, where she is [fitness-wise]. She’s been training of course but until you get into competition and stress the body, you don’t know. “It’s …

Two-time world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson gets a third-time clearance at 1.83m in the heptathlon high jump at the European Athletics Championships. BBC News

Great Britain cruise to the final of the women’s 4x400m relay after dominating their heat, at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. BBC News

Two-time world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Commonwealth silver medallist Jade O’Dowda begin their heptathlon campaigns with the 100m hurdles, alongside Commonwealth Games champion, Ireland’s Kate O’Connor. WATCH MORE: Athletics on the BBC Available to UK users only. BBC News

GB sprint star Amy Hunt takes her second gold of the 2026 European Athletics Championships in the women’s 200m, with Rhasidat Adeleke second and Dina Asher-Smith in third. BBC News