Athletics

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson continued to work on her first-lap speed by competing in the 400m. Charlotte Henrich won her heat in a personal best of 51.20 seconds but Hodgkinson’s time of 51.62 was enough for her to also qualify for Sunday’s final (16:06 BST). Matthew Hudson-Smith, the 2024 …

Georgia Hunter Bell, who won silver at last year’s World Championships, will be the favourite to win the women’s 800m in Hogkinson’s absence. The women’s 100m and 200m sprints will perhaps be the most hotly contested races with Dina Asher-Smith, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita set to go head to …

Audrey Werro missed out on her pursuit of the long-standing women’s 800m record as two-time 400m hurdles world champion Femke Broeders-Bol impressed in her first outdoor race at the distance. Swiss athlete Werro stunned Keely Hodgkinson two weeks ago in Stockholm by winning in a time of one minute and …

World Athletics is asking every elite female athlete to help shape its rules on pregnancy, childbirth and the return to competition. The governing body has launched a new study it says can inform and improve its policies – and help to better protect and support female athletes. It is asking …

The North Stand at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium will be renamed to honour Great Britain track star Matthew Hudson-Smith during August’s European Athletics Championships. Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, who has won four European titles, was born in nearby Wolverhampton. The 31-year-old attended a surprise unveiling of the Matthew Hudson-Smith Stand, with …

After dabbling with the pentathlon and 800 metres, Minshull settled on becoming a one-lap hurdler and ran the second fastest time by a British athlete this season – 48.87 seconds – in Belgium last month. He is currently ranked 39th in the world. “As I got into running more, the …

Hunter Bell’s win was an early statement performance in a season that features a Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and European Championships in Birmingham. The 32-year-old, who won world outdoor 800m silver ahead of Hodgkinson in Tokyo last September, has now returned to the longer distance where she took a remarkable …

Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson and Amber Anning finish seventh and fifth respectively, as Henriette Jaeger win the women’s 400m at the Diamond League in Rome. BBC News

A judge at the Old Bailey has fined UK Athletics £350,000 with £44,000 in costs after hearing how a paralympic athlete died when equipment fell on him at a training ground in east London. Shot-putter Abdullah Hayayei was killed when a metal cage collapsed as he prepared for the World …

Emma Barnett exposes the devastating reality of endometriosis and its toll on women. BBC News

Keely Hodgkinson says this year’s London Diamond League could be a “battle of the world records” as she seeks to topple athletics’ longest-standing mark on home soil. The Olympic 800m champion will return to the London Stadium meet for the first time since her British-record run in the lead-up to …

Two-time 200m world champion Shericka Jackson produced a dominant display to win the 200m Diamond League event in Xiamen. Jackson smashed the meeting record and narrowly missed out on the world lead by 0.01 seconds, finishing with a time of 21.87 seconds to claim the victory. The Jamaican led from …

Seven disciplines will be contested in both London and New York – the 100m hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, mile, and long jump – with an athlete’s combined points determining the overall event winner. Athletes can earn up to $65,000 (£48,500) in each individual event, while overall champions will receive …

The key to breaking a course record for a 250-mile ultramarathon? Mashed potato, and 19 minutes’ worth of sleep on the ground. That is what fuelled Rachel Entrekin in her historic run at the Cocodona 250 in Arizona as the American won the overall race – men included – in …

In a statement in response to the IOC request, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine expressed its “categorical protest and deep disappointment with such a decision of the IOC, which contradicts the fundamental principles of justice, responsibility and Olympic values”. It added: “This decision was made at a time when …

A record number of people have applied to participate in the 2027 London Marathon via the public ballot. In total, 1,338,544 people have applied for the event which will take place on 25 April, breaking last year’s record of 1,133,813. The 2026 marathon had a record 59,830 finishers and was …

BBC Sport’s Ask Me Anything team explains the role of pacers in running events BBC News

Wada revealed details of a state-sponsored doping programme in 2015, and declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code. But Wada’s executive committee voted to reinstate Rusada in September 2018, subject to a number of strict conditions. The move was condemned in some circles at the time …

World 400m champion Collen Kebinatshipi has urged African federations to “protect” their athletes after World Athletics blocked six runners from the continent who wanted to transfer their allegiance to Turkey. Switching nationality has increasingly become an attractive option for athletes seeking better incentives and structured support. However, this growing trend …

Reflecting on her performances in Poland, where she set a new Irish record score of 4,839 points, O’Connor still felt a sense of disappointment with the colour of the medal she ended with. “I did go in wanting to win the competition. Now, I’m very satisfied with the score because …