Keyword "World Athletics Championships" - List of latest news (114 results)

02:25 Gout Gout set to take on the world’s best

Teen sprint sensation Gout Gout has been named as Australia’s first representative in the 200m in the team being sent to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo and will take on the world’s best sprinters for the first time.

26/03 World Athletics to Introduce 'Pre-Clearance' Sex Tests for Female Athletes

Seb Coe, president of World Athletics, will be introducing non-invasive "pre-clearance tests" for female athletes.

01/03 Cian McPhillips back on track as he aims to make up for lost time

After periods hampered by injury and illness, the man once hailed as the most exciting Irish middle-distance prospect of his generation is primed to make a mark at the European Indoor Championships

19/02 ‘I think I’m listening more to my body’: Sharlene Mawdsley on the changes made since the Paris Olympics

The 26-year-old Tipperary athlete has joined the training group of UK coach Tony Lester

17/01 Sonia O’Sullivan: Relay pool an open door for young Irish athletes hoping to make a splash

Sonia O’Sullivan: Relay pool an open door for young athletes hoping to make a splash

20/12 Four-year ban for Mohamed Katir after falsifying papers in whereabouts-failure inquiry

Winner of silver medal in 5,000m at World Athletics Championships last year to serve both bans concurrently

09/12 ‘I’m not really happy’: Gout Gout’s parents act to change his name

Gout Gout might just be Australia’s biggest sporting star of the next decade, so we better get his name right.

02/12 ‘Insane stuff’: Aussie runner shatters marathon record

Australia has a new marathon champion after Andy Buchanan smashed the national record at the Valencia Marathon on Sunday night.

24/10 Sonia O’Sullivan: A home victory would be worth so much more to the Dublin Marathon than course records

Is it really necessary to field a race of unknown athletes in the Dublin Marathon who literally just take the money and run?

03/09 Paris Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei set on fire

Ugandan Olympic long distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei is in intensive care in a Kenyan hospital after being doused in petrol and set on fire by her partner.

28/05 Rhasidat Adeleke opts for 400m as Ireland sends large squad to European Athletics Championships

Also qualified in the 200m, the Dublin sprinter has decided on her now specialist event

19/03 After the doping scandal: German athlete ends her career

The German long-distance runner Sara Benfares is suspected of doping. Her case led to discussions - now, according to her lawyer, she has ended her career.

05/03 He shone at the World Athletics Championships, but he went viral on social media due to a curious detail in the interview he gave after the race.

Femke Bol had an outstanding performance in the competition in Glasgow after breaking her record in the 400 meters, but users were left with a curious detail

05/03 No time to dwell on lack of medals in Glasgow with Olympic Games on the horizon

The Irish women’s relay quartet and Sarah Lavin in the 60m hurdles were the highlights at the World Athletics Indoor Championships

01/03 Dramatic injury to María Vicente at the World Indoor Athletics Championships: "Please, no; please, no..."

The Spanish athlete María Vicente, the great favorite for the gold medal in pentathlon at the World Indoor Athletics Championships that began this Friday in Glasgow,...

28/02 Beijing selected to host 2027 track and field world championships

The 2027 track and field world championships have been awarded to Beijing. The World Athletics Council reached the decision to bring the meet back to China after the country hosted the event in 2015.

28/02 World Indoor Athletics: Sarah Healy and Sarah Lavin targeting finals as some Irish big names skip event

Rhasidat Adeleke, Ciara Mageean, Mark English and Andrew Coscoran will all miss Glasgow

17/12 Ciara Mageean: ‘People dubbed me as the next Sonia, breaking her record meant a lot to me’

A fourth-place finish in the World Championships proved bittersweet but Ciara Mageean is ready to give her all again in pursuit of a medal on the biggest stage of all

17/12 Unfinished business a big motivator for Ciara Mageean as Olympic year beckons

A fourth-place finish in the World Championships proved bittersweet but Ciara Mageean is ready to give her all again in pursuit of a medal on the biggest stage of all

21/10 It’s not just the Ingebrigtsens: the perils of any in-family coaching relationship

Claims of physical violence and threats a sad end to Ingebrigtsens’ once charming success

02/09 World Champion of what? Noah Lyles begs the question of truly global sporting success

Some 46 countries won at least one medal at the World Athletics Championships – while the Rugby ‘World” Cup winners will come from one of just four countries, Frence, New Zealand, Ireland or South Africa

28/08 Team GB has ‘feelgood factor’ back but Paris will be step up, says athletics chief

Britain has rediscovered the feelgood factor but the Paris Olympics will be ‘another level’, UK Athletics’ technical director has warned

28/08 ‘Help this brother’: Basketball stars hit back after Noah Lyles’ NBA jab

Noah Lyles had a brilliant week at the World Athletics Championships but it’s safe to say that he’s not universally popular among his fellow US sports stars

28/08 Never mind the medals: Ireland’s numbers at World Championships show they are competitive

Individual and team performances suggest ‘whatever benchmark we choose to look at, it is significant progress’

27/08 The incredible Ingebrigtsen strikes back to win another World Championship gold

Norwegian outpaces Spain’s Mohamed Katir to defend his World Championship 5000m title, while Irish women’s 4x400m team finish eighth

27/08 Keely Hodgkinson forced to settle for silver as Mary Moraa wins world 800m

A highly anticipated three-way battle in the women’s 800m final ended with Mary Moraa holding off Keely Hodgkinson with Athing Mu taking bronze

27/08 Ireland finish eighth in final of 4x400m relay

The Irish quartet of Kelly McGrory, Sharlene Mawdsley, Roisin Harrison and Sophie Becker finished seventh in the final of the women's 4x400m relay, bringing down the curtain on an impressive championships for Team Ireland.

27/08 Coe applauds Budapest atmosphere claiming city is ready to host Olympics

Sebastian Coe, the World Athletics president, has hailed the “electric atmosphere” in Budapest and says the city is ready to host the Olympics

27/08 Uganda’s Victor Kiplangat takes marathon gold at World Athletics Championships

Ethiopia’s Leul Gebresilase stayed with Kiplangat most of the way before fading to bronze

27/08 Lessons learned and some painful perspectives on finishing fourth

For every athlete like Eamonn Coghlan, who found redemption later on, there are many more who never got that close again

26/08 Ben Pattison overcomes heart condition to claim world 800m bronze

Ben Pattison, who has overcome a heart condition, became the first British man since 1987 to win a world championships 800m medal when he claimed bronze

26/08 ‘No more amateur stuff’: Noah Lyles on mission to transform athletics

The sprint champion with three golds at the world championships in Budapest believes more professional marketing could give the sport the profile it deserves

26/08 Ireland make women’s 4x400 metre relay final at World Athletics Championships

Strong final leg by Sharlene Mawdsley stands out as Ireland qualify despite Adeleke absence

26/08 Ireland women's 4x400m relay team through to final

The Ireland team of Kelly McGrory, Sharlene Mawdsley, Roisin Harrison and Sophie Becker are through to final of the 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Championships, with the disqualification of the USA team bumping them up as a fastest non-automatic qualifier.

26/08 Coach Flo knows: the pro changes coming down the track for Rhasidat Adeleke

Rising star will have to deal with a whole new set of challenges in the paid ranks

26/08 Aussie world champ Nina Kennedy caught up in ‘shameful’ furore

Australia’s newest world champion Nina Kennedy has been caught up in a “shameful” furore just days after her incredible gesture at the world athletics championships.

25/08 USA’s Lyles adds 200m world title to 100m crown with GB’s Hughes in fourth

The USA’s Noah Lyles stormed home in 19.52sec to win the men’s 200m and complete a sprint double in Budapest

25/08 Yulimar Rojas makes one last leap to land World Championship history for Venezuela

Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson also runs second fastest 200m in history

25/08 World Athletics pledges to put crowds before cash at world championships

The World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, has offered cautious approval to Saudi investment but believes fan engagement is more important

25/08 Rhasidat Adeleke pulls out of Irish women’s 4x400m relays at World Championships

Mawdsley, Becker, Harrison, McGrory and Murray all remain available for selection ahead of tomorrow’s heats

25/08 Budapest World Champs I Team SA’s day of crushed hopes as Wayde finishes last and team-mate involved in golf cart crash | City Press

Thursday was a day to forget for Team South Africa at the World Athletics Championships with nothing to show for their efforts.

25/08 Adeleke out of 400m relay at World Championships

Ireland's hopes of securing a final spot in the women's 400m relay at the World Championships have been dealt a hammer blow, with Rhasidat Adeleke unavailable for the event.

24/08 Matt Hudson-Smith takes world 400m silver after being pipped on the line

Jamaica’s Antonio Watson stormed through to take 400m gold medal from Briton who finished second despite struggling with an achilles injury

24/08 Ingebrigtsen lifts some of the hurt on night six of the World Athletics Championships

Femke Bol makes up for lost time by finally winning World title in 400m hurdles

24/08 Buggy collision leaves sprinter Hudson with glass in eye for world 200m semi

US sprinter Noah Lyles won his semi-final despite being in one of two buggies that crashed while Jamaica’s Andrew Hudson was granted place in the final by officials despite finishing outside qualifying places

24/08 Rhasidat Adeleke: Overwhelming sense is that her medal chance will come again

Ian O’Riordan: If Adeleke was only in ‘decent’ shape for Wednesday’s World Championship final, then her Olympic future looks promising

24/08 Britain’s new champion Josh Kerr stirs memories of Coe, Cram and Ovett

Scot’s stunning 1500m gold in Budapest required plenty of sacrifices but he is proud of having won ‘the honest way’

24/08 Sonia O’Sullivan: Finishing fourth only adds to hunger and drive to go one step better

Mageean and Adeleke show their time to win a medal will undoubtedly come. Paris awaits

24/08 Rhasidat Adeleke: There’s no doubt that the girl from Tallaght has arrived on the global stage

Rashidat Adeleke came so close to a medal in her first World Championships final

24/08 Australia’s Nina Kennedy shares pole vault gold at world championships

Australian Nina Kennedy and American Katie Moon agree to share gold medal instead of jumping-off after both clear 4.90m

23/08 Gold medal shot beckons on Sunday in 5,000m final for prolific Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway

Faith Kipyegon chasing a first 1,500m-5,000m double in women’s World Championship history

23/08 Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke fourth in 400m final at World Athletics Championships

She was aiming to be the first Irish athlete to win World Championship medal on the track since 1995

23/08 Lavin lowers national record in World 100m hurdles semi

Sarah Lavin fell agonisingly shy of a place in the Women's 100m hurdle final at the World Athletics Championships but managed to smash the National Record of Derval O'Rourke in a fantastic fifth-placed effort.

23/08 Large number of GB athletes untested before 2022 world championships

AIU has revealed that 16 of 73 competitors from Great Britain were untested in 10 months before last year’s World Athletics Championships

23/08 Faith Kipyegon lifts gold: from walking to school in rural Kenya to setting world athletics alight

With three world records to her name, Faith Kipyegon is competing for two gold medals at the World Athletics Championships.

23/08 Rhasidat Adeleke may need to improve on lifetime best in first of many dates with destiny

Marileidy Paulino is the clear favourite to win the World Championship gold medal

23/08 Sha’Carri Richardson looks like a champion made better by her mistakes

The American’s thrilling victory in the 100m at the world championships was the culmination of a long journey of transformation

23/08 Peter Bol misses 800m semi-finals at World Athletics Championships

Peter Bol’s year from hell has continued as he fell short of progressing out of the heats of his pet event at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

22/08 Hudson-Smith takes 400m record into final but Muir fades to sixth in 1500m

Matt Hudson-Smith broke Thomas Schönlebe’s 1987 European record in his men’s 400m semi-final at the World Athletics Championships while Laura Muir finished sixth in the women’s 1500m final

22/08 TV View: Virgin Media takes the Ryanair approach as everyone roars the house down for Ciara Mageean

Portaferry’s finest can only finish fourth and Mark English does his stint in the dentist’s waiting room

22/08 Ciara Mageean finishes fourth in 1,500m final at World Athletics Championships

She just missed out on a first World Championship medal on the track for an Irish athlete since 1995

22/08 Head of Athletics Integrity Unit takes aim at doping policies of other sports

David Howman has said: ‘Many in teams sports will go through their careers without being tested’

22/08 Lavin and English progress to semis in Budapest

Sarah Lavin and Mark English have progressed to the semi-finals of the women's 100m hurdles and the men's 800m respectively at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

22/08 Sha’Carri Richardson’s stunning redemption tale complete as she storms to 100m gold in Budapest

The flamboyant American beat Jackson and Fraser-Pryce from the outside lane at the World Athletics Championships and continues to be a divisive figure

22/08 Ciara Mageean primed for 1,500m showdown of her life

World Athletics Championships: ‘Now I’m in another global final. I’m excited to go out on and see what I’m made of’

21/08 Sha’Carri Richardson storms to 100m gold in stunning redemption tale

Sha’Carri Richardson of the USA won the women’s 100m, upsetting Jamaican favourites Shericka Jackson and Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce

21/08 Adeleke powers into World Championships 400m final

Rhasidat Adeleke secured an automatic qualifying spot into the final of the women's 400m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, while Sharlene Mawdsley bowed at the penultimate stage.

21/08 Johnson-Thompson’s coach put her through ‘a lot of pain’ for 800m

Aston Moore revealed how he put the heptathlete through brutal training sessions to get her ready for the world championships

21/08 Rhasidat Adeleke qualifies for the final of the 400m at the World Athletics Championships

Irish runner finishes second in her semi-final with a time of 49.87

21/08 Faith Kipyegon: from walking to school in rural Kenya to setting world athletics alight

With three world records to her name, Faith Kipyegon is competing for two gold medals at the World Athletics Championships.

21/08 World Athletics Championships medal table: Latest standings and results at Budapest 2023

World Athletics Championships medal table: Latest standings and results at Budapest 2023 -

21/08 Akani Simbine disqualified. SA's hopes for a World Athletics Champs medal placed on Wayde's shoulders | City Press

Sprinter Wayde van Niekerk is next in line as the best bet for a podium finish, but the 400m record holder must first go beyond the semifinals on Tuesday.

21/08 Rhasidat Adeleke: ‘It’s championship racing, anything can happen’

‘Coming around the bend, I was like ‘where am I? Okay wake up! Then I started picking them off’

20/08 Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins epic duel to regain world heptathlon title

The heptathlete overcame career-threatening injury fears while Zharnel Hughes won Britain’s first men’s world 100m medal for 20 years

20/08 Adeleke and Mageean progress at World Athletics Championships in Hungary

In the heptathlon Kate O’Connor closed off her seven events with another season best of 2:14.25 in the 800m, her final tally of 6,145 points leaving her 13th overall

20/08 USA’s Noah Lyles wins 100m world title as Hughes seals bronze for GB

Noah Lyles captured the 100m world title on Sunday, finishing in 9.83 seconds for a victory that reshuffled the deck for next year’s Olympics

20/08 Lyles strikes 100m gold to extend US dominance, Botswana's Tebogo 2nd | Sport

American Noah Lyles roared to victory in a sensational men's world championships 100m in Budapest on Sunday to extend the US dominance in track and field's blue riband event in the post-Usain Bolt era.

20/08 Ciara Mageean safely through to World Championships final in Budapest

Sarah Healy falls short despite a new personal best and her first sub-four clocking

20/08 Rhasidat Adeleke and Sharlene Mawdsley qualify for 400m semi-finals at World Championships

Adeleke wins heat in cool 50.80 seconds as Mawdsley nails fourth with personal best of 51.17

20/08 Wayde on track: Strong start for Team SA at World Champs as Van Niekerk, Simbine progress | Sport

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk started his World Athletics Championships in Budapest comfortably on Sunday morning, winning his 400m heat in 44.57 to progress to the the semi-finals.

20/08 ‘This has never happened before’: Absurdity rocks world athletics championships

Two moments of devastating drama have rocked the world athletics championships on a “dark day” for the Netherlands.

19/08 Prescod accuses UK Athletics of ‘emotional blackmail’ over relay withdrawal

Reece Prescod has accused UK Athletics of “emotional blackmail” in an explosive interview during which he defended his sudden decision to pull out of Britain’s 4x100m relay team

19/08 Dina Asher-Smith set on delivering at Worlds in ‘golden’ women’s 100m field

British sprinter enters the world championships without any hype and is excited by the chance to stun her daunting rivals

19/08 World Athletics Championships: Ciara Mageean and Sarah Healy both cruise into semi-final

Sophie O’Sullivan books her place at next year’s Paris Olympics

19/08 Crouser cruises through shot put prelims in search of second straight world championship

World-record holder Ryan Crouser needed only one attempt to advance to the shot put finals at world championships, where he’ll seek to defend his title.

19/08 World Athletics Championships at 40: Has the sport reached a crossroads?

Seb Coe is bullish about the future, despite the lingering question as to why some of world’s best athletes are not in Budapest

18/08 Letter from Budapest: Rarely if ever has there been so much talk of potential track doubles

There’s a good chance some of them might well come off over the coming nine days

18/08 Keely Hodgkinson aims to lead British athletics out of shadows in Budapest

The fastest woman over 800m this year is heading to the world championship looking to emulate her close friend Ella Toone

18/08 Less room for error as Ciara Mageean and Rhasidat Adeleke eye medals in Budapest

Ireland hasn’t won a World Championship medal on the track since 1995

18/08 World Athletics Championships: A daily guide to the headline acts in Budapest

Ciara Mageean, Rhasidat Adeleke and others will be looking to make finals and from there, who knows?

18/08 Mary Hannigan: Andy Farrell defends his son Owen against ‘bullshit’ reaction to red card

The impact of goalkeepers ahead of World Cup final; profiles for World Athletics Championships

17/08 Taking on the world: The 24 Irish athletes competing at the World Championships in Budapest

Ian O’Riordan profiles the biggest squad of athletes Ireland has ever sent to the World Championships

17/08 World Athletics Championships: Consistent Chris O’Donnell confident of Ireland team’s berth for 4x400m final

After making two successive global finals, the mixed relay quartet are out to repeat the trick this Saturday

16/08 Eugene Amo-Dadzie: the remarkable journey of ‘world’s fastest accountant’

Eugene Amo-Dadzie, the world’s fastest accountant, is preparing for his world championship debut at the age of 31 and hopes his story can be an inspiration

16/08 Reece Prescod quits GB relay team before World Athletics Championships

Reece Prescod has walked out on Britain’s 4x100m men’s relay team, leaving them in the lurch just days before the start of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest

16/08 Andrew Coscoran turning back the clock and spotlight on Irish 1,500m running

Already this year 11 men have run sub-3;30, more than in any previous year

15/08 Laura Muir: ‘It’s been a rollercoaster. But we’re at a high point now’

Great Britain’s captain for the World Athletics Championship Laura Muir tells Sean Ingle she is excited about Budapest after a turbulent time off the track

15/08 Laura Muir feeling positive about future after split from long-term coach

British team captain for the World Championships believes she is in shape to break her British 1500m record in Budapest

15/08 Louise Shanahan switches from physics mode to running mode as World Championships beckon

She goes into her 800m event ranked 21st and aiming to reach at least the semi-final

14/08 Eamonn Coghlan: ‘I’ve been very blessed by what I achieved in athletics’

Forty years ago Ireland’s greatest middle distance runner reached the pinnacle of his glittering career when he won the World Championships 5,000m final in Helsinki

11/08 Sonia O’Sullivan: No reason we can’t be fighting for medals at the World Athletics Championships

‘At this stage, there’s not much more work to be done, just fine-tuning and getting that balance right’

09/08 Mageean has full Faith in 'greatest ever' Kipyegon

Ciara Mageean is getting ready to do battle with the best middle-distance runners on the globe at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this weekend and she's doing it in full belief that all is, thankfully, exactly as it seems in the star-studded 1500m division.

08/08 Krystsina Tsimanouskaya: The Belarusian sprinter who won the right to run for Poland at the world championships

Athlete who defected after the Tokyo Olympics has built a new life in Warsaw

04/08 Rhasidat Adeleke leads Ireland’s largest ever World Athletics Championships team

Some 23 athletes will represent the country in Budapest, beginning on August 19th

01/08 Peter Bol officially ‘exonerated’ as Sport Integrity Australia drops doping case

Australian Olympian Peter Bol has officially been exonerated after Sport Integrity Australia declared it would not progress with an anti-doping rule violation and closed its investigation into his false positive for synthetic EPO.

01/08 ‘Exonerated’: Case closed against Aussie Olympian

Australian Olympian Peter Bol has officially been exonerated after Sport Integrity Australia declared it would not progress with an anti-doping rule violation and closed its investigation into his false positive for synthetic EPO.

28/07 UKA chief defends ‘winning’ selection policy that sees British athletes miss out

UK Athletics’ chief selector has defended the organisation’s strict policy that will mean at least 19 athletes miss out on next month’s world championships

26/07 British athletes accuse UKA of ‘stealing’ World Championships chance

Furious British athletes have accused the national federation of ‘stealing’ their chance to compete at next month’s World Championships, with UK Athletics set to rip up their invitations

24/07 ‘I don’t let any of the new experiences or pressure get to me’: Rhasidat Adeleke on life changes of turning pro

Back home in Dublin preparations are gearing towards next month’s World Championships

14/07 Sonia O’Sullivan: Wavelight technology can be a leading light but it should not dominate over racing

The names of famous athletes will be remembered far longer than the ever-changing numbers for records

06/07 Air pollution could kill London as a sporting capital, Sebastian Coe warns

World athletics president says climate crisis and poor air quality may cause havoc to the sporting calendar

18/06 Coscoran out on his own after record 1500m run in Nice

Dubliner takes down two long-standing records by becoming the first Irish athlete to run under 3:33 as he registers a fine victory in France

17/06 Andrew Coscoran smashes his own 1,500 metres Irish record

Middle-distance runner clocks brilliant sub-3:33 run in Nice, all but securing place in World Championships

10/01 World’s fastest man to race in Oz

The fastest man in the world is coming to Melbourne to race with world 100m champion Fred Kerley set to take on Australian sprint star Rohan Browning.