Athletics

Gout Gout is a teenage sprinter from Australia whose scintillating speed has drawn huge interest from fans and pundits around the world. Aged 17, Gout competes over 60m, 100m, 200m and 400m and has set a series of impressive records at youth level. Videos of Gout’s dominant performances have gone …

However those who are familiar with Annabelle’s family will know she does have genetics on her side. Her father Olusoji was World Indoor 60m champion in 2008, won Olympic bronze in the 4x100m relay in 2004 and was a Commonwealth Games silver medallist in 2006. His personal best over 100m …

Hamish Kerr, the Olympic High Jump champion, on winning a jump-off to claim gold BBC News

George Mills ran the second fastest time by a Briton in the men’s 1500m as he finished third at the Diamond League in Paris. After beating Sir Mo Farah’s long-standing British 5,000m record in Oslo last week, Mills, 26, again bettered Farah to climb to second in the all-time UK …

Great Britain’s Amy Hunt finishes second behind in-form American Anavia Battle in the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris. BBC News

28 days after a killer virus spreads through the UK, a group in London try to survive. BBC News

Olympic hurdler David King has retired from athletics. The 31-year-old six-time British champion from Plymouth reached the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He reached the final of the 2022 World Indoor Championships, having drawn lots after recording an identical time to Japan’s …

Alastair Chalmers says he feels he has progressed to the world’s elite in the 400m hurdles. BBC News

Television presenter Gethin Jones has been named Team Wales’ chef de mission for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Jones was the Team Wales attache at the Gold Coast 2018 Games, a role that inspired him to return to university to complete a master’s degree in sports directorship. Commonwealth Games Wales …

Olympic Triple Jump champion, Thea LaFond, on what it means to make history for Dominica BBC News

Britain’s world indoor champion Amber Anning was third in the women’s 400m in a season’s best of 50.17 seconds, while Dina Asher-Smith ran 10.93 seconds to finish second behind Olympic champion Julien Alfred in the women’s 100m. Asher-Smith said: “Today was something to ask for, from running in Oslo three …

Despite breaking the record, when meeting with his family after the race George was reminded by his younger brother – Oxford United footballer Stanley Mills – that he had only finished fourth. “We’re all like that,” George said with a smile of his high-achieving sporting family. “When you achieve something …

Watch as Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith finishes third in the women’s 100m at the Diamond League in Oslo as Olympic champion Julian Alfred takes victory. BBC News

Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith was third in the women’s 100m, behind Olympic champion Julien Alfred and veteran Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith. Asher-Smith failed to make the 100m final at last year’s Olympics but is hopeful of better at this year’s World Championships in Tokyo in September. She said after running a season’s …

The competition featured a host of well-known athletes, including British Olympic sprinters Daryll Neita and Matthew Hudson-Smith, and 1500m world champion Josh Kerr. Male and female competitors are subdivided into six categories – each containing eight athletes – such as Short Sprints, with the eight featuring in that group competing …

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson has pulled out of Sunday’s Stockholm Diamond League event after suffering a setback in her recovery from a hamstring injury. The 23-year-old was ruled out of the Keely Klassic – a new athletics event she founded – in February after tearing her hamstring. She had …

Mark English became the first Irishman to break one minute 44 seconds in the 800m as he produced a superb run at the FBK Games in the Netherlands. The 32-year-old recorded a new national record time of 1:43.92 in a brilliant win in the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series …

Alastair Chalmers says he is targeting the 400m hurdles final at the World Championships in Tokyo after running a personal best. Guernsey’s reigning British champion, 25, clocked 48.30 secs in Germany on Sunday, breaking his previous best by 0.24 seconds. The time means he is the fifth-fastest Briton of all …

Beatrice Chebet misses out on the women’s 5,000m world record by just over three seconds as the Kenyan long distance runner comfortably wins the race at the Diamond League event in Rome. BBC News

Great Britain’s Amy Hunt ran a season’s best to finish second in the women’s 200m at the Diamond League meet in Rome. American Anavia Battle won the race in 22.53 seconds, with Hunt second in 22.67 and Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith third in 22.75. Hunt produced a late burst …