Athletics

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Barring injury, the five-time British champion and Olympic and World Championship semi-finalist will be one of Guernsey’s 20 competitors in Glasgow next summer. The Commonwealth Games are the highest international stage on which Guernsey competes in its own right. Chalmers hopes that he will still be competing in 2030 and …

Available for over a year At the age of 78, Dutch football manager Dick Advocaat has led the Caribbean island of Curacao to the men’s Fifa World Cup finals for the first time in their history. It’s the latest achievement in a career that’s seen him win league titles in …

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Two women swap homes for the holidays and find unexpected romance and self-discovery. BBC News

British Athletics has announced the 41 athletes included in its Paralympic World Class Programme for 2025-26. The WCP is funded by UK Sport’s National Lottery-backed initiative and supports athletes preparing for major international championships, including the Paralympic Games. Three athletes – Melanie Woods, Lydia Church and Nathan Maguire – have …

A former Olympic athletics coach has denied raping and sexually assaulting a child. Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl, 65 – who was previously married to former Olympic middle-distance runner Diane Modahl – appeared at Manchester Crown Court where he pleaded not guilty to 19 charges. Judge Nicholas Dean KC, Honorary Recorder of …

Bracy-Williams, who has not competed since 2023, initially tried to tamper with the investigation and also breached the whereabouts rules where athletes must let officials know where they will be. But he later admitted his violations and also provided “substantial assistance” to the investigation, said Usada, which carried out the …

Turner has raced at the last two Commonwealth Games for Jersey – finishing 26th as a teenager in the 2018 Games on Australia’s Gold Coast. But with the sport having been dropped from the slimmed-down programme for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, his dedication will be on longer-distance events …

Great Britain’s Patrick Dever came an impressive fourth on his marathon debut in the men’s race in New York as Benson Kipruto beat Alexander Mutiso in a dramatic photo finish to claim victory. Preston Harrier Dever, who finished in a time of two hours eight minutes and 58 seconds, was …

Banka said he was “very keen” to work alongside the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) but “it has to be based on mutual respect”, with tensions between the two organisations being high in recent times. Earlier this year, Usada said it “fully supported” the US government’s decision to withhold a …

Available for over a year Collen Kebinatshipi became the first man from Botswana to win a world title at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, clocking a time of 43.53 in the 400m. The 21-year-old was also part of the team that beat USA to win the men’s 4×400 metres, …

Keely Hodgkinson ended her 800m season with victory at the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday evening. The Olympic champion, who won bronze at the World Championships last month, cruised to an impressive win in one minute 56.53 seconds in what was only her sixth race in a …

Two-time 400m hurdles world champion Femke Bol has announced she will switch events and compete in the 800m from next year. Dutch superstar Bol, 25, who successfully defended her world title in Tokyo in September, has also won bronze medals at the past two Olympics in that discipline. She has …

Kebinatshipi underlined his talents when he ran a personal best – and a world lead time – of 43.61s in the semi-finals. His compatriots Lee Bhekempilo Eppi and Bayapo Ndori also made it through to the 400m final, but Kebinatshipi was comfortable knowing that the attention would be on him. …

Great Britain’s Aled Davies secured his seventh consecutive F63 shot put title on the final day of the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi. The Welshman, 34, threw a distance of 16.44m in his fifth attempt to finish ahead of Kuwait’s Faisal Sorour, who won silver with an effort …

Great Britain’s Anna Nicholson and Lydia Church won shot put bronze on the penultimate day of the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi. Nicholson, 30, the team’s co-captain, finished third in the women’s F35 category – for those with a co-ordination impairment – with a personal best throw of …

Great Britain’s Funmi Oduwaiye won bronze in the F44 shot put at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi. The 22-year-old threw a personal best effort of 12.11 metres with her first throw of the competition. Oduwaiye’s five remaining efforts were red flagged as she finished behind China’s Yao …

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Former champion Hollie Arnold said winning a medal was way beyond her expectations after securing a bronze in the women’s F46 javelin at the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi. The 31-year-old took nine months off after finishing third at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, but returned to secure …