Bolt injured and crashes out in men’s relay
lONDON, Aug 13 (IANS) Usain Bolt suffered a injury midway into his anchor leg of the men’s 4×100 metres relay and pulled out of the last race of career at the World Athletics Championships here…
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Star athletes shine at World Championships
London, Aug 12 (IANS) World champions Dafine Schippers and Pawel Fajdek defended their titles on Day 8 of the competition at the London world championships here. Dutch woman Schippers clocked a season best 22.05 seconds…
Poland’s Fajdek scores title hat-trick at world athletics
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Poland’s two-time reigning world champion Pawel Fajdek completed his title “hat-trick” with a convincing victory in the men’s hammer throw event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships here. The 28-year-old Fajdek…
Polish Fajdek scores title hat-trick at London worlds
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Poland’s two-time reigning world champion Pawel Fajdek completed his title hat-trick with a convincing victory in the men’s hammar event of the 2017 IAAF World Championships here. The 28-year-old Fajdek on…
Old guard passes baton to younger generation at athletics Worlds
Nairobi, Aug 12 (IANS) The ongoing 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships in London marked the retirement from track of two seasoned athletes. Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya ran the good race and…
American Reese lands fourth long jump world title
London, Aug 12 (IANS) American Brittney Reese claimed her fourth women’s long jump world title at the World Athletics Championships here. Reese, who had previously won the event in 2009, 2011 and 2013, soared and…
Coburn sets women’s steeplechase championship record at London worlds
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Olympic bronze medallist Emma Coburn of the United States cut nearly four seconds off the championships record en route to winning the women’s 3,000 meters steeplechase at the 2017 IAAF World…
Schippers retains women’s 200m world title
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Holland’s Dafine Schippers retained the women’s 200 meters title at the World Athletics Championships here. Schipper, 25, clocked a season best 22.05 seconds for the title, adding to her 100m bronze….
Long jumper Klishina glad to just focus on competition
London, Aug 12 (IANS) Darya Klishina, the Russian long jumper who competed at the London world championships as a neutral athlete autorised by the IAAF world governing body, said she was happy to focus only…
Kenya dominant in women’s 3,000m steeplechase, feels Chemos
Nairobi, Aug 11 (IANS) Milcah Chemos, the former world champion in the women’s 3,000 metre steeplechase said on Friday with four elite athletes, Kenya was in a dominant position to decide the race and must…
Milkha appointed WHO ambassador
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Legendary athlete Milkha Singh was on Friday appointed the World Health Organisation’s goodwill ambassador for physical activity in the South-East Asia Region, the WHO confirmed in a statement. “Promoting physical…
Unheralded athletes shine at world championships
London, Aug 11 (IANS) The seventh day of competitions at the IAAF London world championships saw unheralded athletes stun big names as United States became the biggest winners with two one-two finishes. Ramil Guliyev staged…
Kori Carter wins women’s 400m hurdles at worlds
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Underdog Kori Carter made a surprising lane nine move to bag the gold in the women’s 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF World Athletics Championships here. Carter on Thursday clocked 53.07…
Guliyev shocks favourite Van Niekerk in 200m at worlds
London, Aug 11 (IANS) Ramil Guliyev won Turkey’s first gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships here as he shocked title favourite Wayde Van Niekerk of South Africa in the men’s 200 metres…
Kenyans shine at IAAF worlds in London
Nairobi, Aug 10 (IANS) Kenyans have come out to praise the performance of the country’s team at the IAAF World Championships in London. David Letting, the former cross country national coach, said on Thursday that…
Francis wins women’s 400m title at world athletics
London, Aug 10 (IANS) American Phyllis Francis won her first major individual title as she took the women’s 400 metres gold at the World Athletics Championships here. The 25-year-old clocked a personal best of 49.92…
Warholm wins men’s 400m hurdles at world athletics
London, Aug 10 (IANS) Norway’s Karsten Warholm scored a surprise victory in the men’s 400 meters hurdles at the World Athletics Championships here. The 21-year-old shocked the field with a time of 48.35 seconds for…
Botswana’s Makwala qualifies for 200m semis
London, Aug 10 (IANS) Botswana’s Isaac Makwala qualified for the men’s 200m semi-finals in a race he ran alone after he was declared medically fit to contest at the world championships here. Makwala clocked 20.20…
Gong wins China’s first gold at world athletics
London, Aug 10 (IANS) Olympic and world silver medalist Gong Lijiao won the first gold medal for China at the ongoing IAAF World Championship after she grabbed the shot put title at the London Stadium…
Olympic champions dominate at World athletics championships
London, Aug 9 (IANS) Two-time Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic lifted her second world javelin throw title at the IAAF World Championships here, South African Wayde Van Niekerk was in a class…