Athletics

“It’ll be a long road, but I’m ready to work hard,” said Great Britain long jumper Jazmin Sawyers when sharing the painful news, external of her Achilles rupture last April. The injury, which ruled her out of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, came just over a year after her best …

British middle-distance runner Max Burgin ran a personal best time as he finished second in the 800m at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat. The 23-year-old beat Olympic champion, Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi, into third place with a time of one minute 43.34 seconds. Botswana’s Tshepiso Masalela won in a meeting …

Botswana’s Tshepiso Masalela wins the men’s 800m at the Diamond League in Rabat, Morocco with a season-best time of one minute and 42.69 seconds, with Britain’s Max Burgin second in a personal best time of one minute and 43.34 seconds. WATCH LIVE: Diamond League Rabat Available to UK users only. …

Sophie is beginning to remember a formative holiday she took as a child. BBC News

Race director James McIlroy said Cheptegei’s involvement is the “culmination of a few years’ hard work behind the scenes”. “To have the reigning double Olympic champion and double world record holder headline a very fast race, we believe it to be the fastest in the world, it’s going to be …

New images of the proposed redevelopment of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre have been released, showcasing a refurbished 50m swimming and diving pools and improvements to the external pitches and athletics stadium. The centre, which opened in 1964, was the site of the first Women’s FA Cup final, and …

Watch as Great Britain’s Molly Caudery wins the pole vault at the 2025 Diamond League meeting in Doha. BBC News

Jamaica men’s 4x100m hopes at the World Athletics Relays are ruined by Julian Forte’s mid-race injury to stall their bid to qualify for September’s World Athletics Championships. WATCH MORE: GB take bronze in first mixed 4x100m relay world final Available to UK users only. BBC News

Watch Great Britain win bronze while Canada grab gold in the first ever mixed 4x100m final at the World Relay Championships in Guangzhou. BBC News

Great Britain’s men and women both reach the 4x100m finals at the World Relay Championships in Guangzhou, securing their qualification for September’s World Athletic Championships in Tokyo. WATCH MORE: Baton blunder sees USA crash out of mixed 4x100m relay Available to UK users only. BBC News

The world’s best sprinters head to China for the World Athletics Relays this weekend and you can watch on the BBC. BBC News

Former 100m world champion Fred Kerley says he will clear his name after being arrested for what he described as a “misunderstanding”. Kerley, 29, was reported to have been arrested for allegedly punching his former girlfriend and fellow athlete Alaysha Johnson in the face. The two-time Olympic medallist has acknowledged …

Canada’s Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop won the men’s 800m in one minute and 43.69 seconds, ahead of American Nuguse (1:43.75) who also finished runner-up in the 1500m. After his start to 2025 was disrupted by illness and injury, Olympic 1500m silver medallist Kerr showed he is returning to form …

Running hasn’t always been popular. It wasn’t until the mid-late 1970s when a jogging boom took off across the UK. Inspired by trends in the United States, there was a surge in interest in road running as a leisure activity and way of keeping fit and healthy. An estimated one …

Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will return from injury to race in the women’s 800m at this summer’s London Athletics Meet on Saturday 19 July. The 23-year was forced to withdraw from February’s Keely Klassic in Birmingham because of a hamstring injury. At last year’s event at London Stadium, Hodgkinson …

Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee says his London Marathon debut was “one of the best experiences” of his life despite suffering more “dark moments” than during his victory at the Paris Games. The 27-year-old finished 14th in the men’s elite race in a time of two hours 11 minutes and …

Catherine Debrunner put in a stunning performance to break her own course record as she and Marcel Hug made it a Swiss double for the second year running in the London Marathon wheelchair races. Debrunner finished in a time of one hour 34 minutes 18 seconds, – more than four …

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe wins the Elite Men’s race on his debut with a time of 02:02:27 in the 2025 London Marathon. BBC News

Jo Curtis is preparing to run the London Marathon to raise money for Pancreatic Cancer UK in memory of late husband Stewart Curtis. Watch the London Marathon from 8.30am on Sunday 27 April on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Listen to all the action throughout the day on BBC Sounds. …

London hosted the World Championships in 2017, while Birmingham will host the Europeans in 2026. A formal expression of interest will be submitted to World Athletics in September with the bid dependent on securing £45m in government support for delivery. “London 2017 showed the world what this city and this …