Athletics

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen has withdrawn from the 1500m at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, putting his reunion with rival Josh Kerr on hold.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

Those memories now sit alongside everything that has happened since for Tebogo. A year on from his success at the 2023 World Championships, Tebogo scaled greater heights by becoming Botswana’s first Olympic champion when he won the 200m at the Paris 2024 Games, carrying his mother’s initials on both his …

Eduan’s coach Clovis Asong praised her commitment to both her training regime and study commitments. “Three hours of sleep and then she’s down there training, then she goes home, a little rest – sometimes not even a little rest – and then go straight down to a night shift,” he …

Three former British athletes were convicted in Morocco as part of an investigation into the sexual assault of a minor by a sprinting coach, BBC Sport can reveal. The prosecutions led to the imprisonment of Leon Baptiste, a UK Athletics coach and 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist for England in …

Brazil’s Alison dos Santos breaks the 400m hurdles world record, clocking a time of 45.80 seconds at the Diamond League in Zurich. BBC News

Keely Hodgkinson has withdrawn from the women’s 800 metres at Thursday’s Diamond League meeting in Zurich because her “body is not quite ready”. Olympic champion Hodgkinson had been set to go head-to-head with Switzerland’s Audrey Werro, who beat the Briton to gold at the European Championships in Birmingham earlier this …

One week out from the world-renowned Sydney Marathon, organisers face questions about whether designers etched the wrong city’s stadium on the participation medal. The medal appears to feature a stadium carved in the likeness of Allianz Arena in the German city of Munich, rather than Allianz Stadium in Sydney – …

Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplantis has released the official anthem for World Athletics’ upcoming inaugural Ultimate Championship. The track, titled ‘Gold’, was written and performed by world record holder Duplantis – more commonly known as Mondo – and it has been released on major streaming platforms. The first Ultimate …