Athletics

The European Athletics Championships in 2028 will offer a record prize fund worth about £3m when they are staged in Silesia, Poland. Prize money will be awarded to athletes finishing in the top eight across all 50 events. Gold medal winners will earn 30,000 euros (£25,720), while silver and bronze …

Available for over a year Kenya is the second-most successful country in the history of the World Athletics Championships, but none of its 72 gold medals have been won on home soil. But in 2029, the tournament will head to Nairobi – and Africa – for the first time in …

Polish runner Klaudia Kazimierska edges ahead of Great Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell as they approach the finish line of the Athlos mile in London. BBC News

Polish runner Klaudia Kazimierska edges ahead of Great Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell as they approach the finish line of the Athlos mile in London. BBC News

Copenhagen hosts the fourth edition of the World Athletics Road Running Championships, external this September and you can follow all of the action across the BBC. The World Road Running Championships were first held in 2023 and feature mile races alongside men’s and women’s 5k events. Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen – …

It was the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and Ann Brightwell (nee Packer) had just crossed the finish line of the women’s 800m to take gold – and set a new world record. In doing so, Brightwell became the first British woman to win an Olympic gold on the track, in a …

Hodgkinson has endured two injury-plagued seasons since winning Olympic gold in Paris in 2024, waiting for more than a year to race again after suffering a hamstring injury the following February. Impressing on her return in August 2025 with back-to-back Diamond League wins, she went on to set a new …

The all-female track meet Athlos will make its London debut live on the BBC on Friday – and its founder hopes the competition can become the “Formula 1 of track and field”. Created by Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and husband of tennis’ 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, Athlos …

British sprinter Amy Hunt says she is concerned about the controversial advert starring Sydney Sweeney being part of a “barrier” to girls’ participation in sport. The advert for a sports betting company features the American actress naked but covering parts of her body with various pieces of sporting equipment. After …

Whereas players in sports like football earn a salary based on a contract with the team that employs them, and athletes in individual sports like tennis and golf can earn a great deal from prize money at major tournaments, athletics competitors rely much more heavily on personal sponsorships and endorsements. …

A runner in the Great North Run says she was racially abused by a section of spectators. In a video on Instagram,, external running coach Emma Kirk-Odunubi said the incident happened at about the nine-mile mark of the 13.1-mile route from Newcastle to South Shields on Sunday. She said she …

British sprinter Amy Hunt is among the female athletes to speak out against a controversial sports gambling advert starring actress Sydney Sweeney. The advert has gone viral online and features American Sweeney naked but covering parts of her body with various pieces of sporting equipment. It has sparked a strong …

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks about his reasons for competing in the Great North Run. BBC News

Audrey Werro beats Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson and Femke Broeders-Bol of the Netherlands in a commanding women’s 800m final victory, becoming the Ultimate Champion after charging clear at the final stretch. WATCH AND FOLLOW LIVE: Ultimate Championships on BBC Sport Available to UK users only. BBC News

Jakob Ingebrigtsen has withdrawn from the 1500m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, putting his reunion with rival Josh Kerr on hold. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Ingebrigtsen took an impressive victory in the men’s 5,000m final at the inaugural edition of the sport’s new global event on Friday night. But, …

The event, which is one the largest half marathons in the world, inspires many to raise thousands of pounds for charities. Among them will be David Beadle, 45, from Shildon in County Durham, whose teenage children took their own lives separately, within the space of a year. He had been …

Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall has decided to end her 2026 season after suffering “severe concussion” in a car crash. The decision means the 27-year-old American will miss this week’s World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Hungary. “This one hurts. I’m sad, disappointed and just hurt by all of it,” …

It was more than three minutes outside her best time for the course and well outside her British record for the distance of 1:05:43. Britain’s Jack Rowe missed out on a record fourth consecutive victory in the men’s race, finishing in second place, 14 seconds behind Birchfield Harriers’ Kadar Omar …

Fellow Briton Georgia Hunter Bell came fourth in the 1500m despite being among the pre-race favourites. Hunter Bell has won three international titles this year, including the world indoor 1500m, Commonwealth Games 800m and European 1500m, but never looked like threatening the top three in Brussels. Poland’s Klaudia Kazimierska came …

Great Britain’s Amy Hunt is “well beaten” in the women’s 200m at the Brussels Diamond League, despite running a season best time of 22.16s as St Lucia Julien Alfred finishes first. BBC News