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Kiplimo earns men’s 10,000m title in Commonwealth record to keep Ugandan run going as athletics begins

  • Athletics

record of 27min 09.19sec to earn Uganda’s fifth consecutive gold in this event on the opening night of athletics

Kennedy won the women’s pole vault, Nigeria's Chioma Onyekwere earned women's discus gold and Para-athletics

I missed out on a medal at the two World Championships this year [the World Athletics Indoor Championships

in March and World Athletics Championships last month] but I spoke to the President of my federation

Australia's Nina Kennedy won the women's pole vault title on day one of the Birmingham 2022 athletics

gold medal of the 2022 Commonwealth Games athletics programme went to Breen, who finished ahead of England's




Tebogo opens 100m defence with World Athletics U20 Championships record in Cali

  • Athletics

Tebogo, Botswana’s world under-20 100 metres record holder, laid down another marker as he set a World Athletics

Tebogo, who lowered his own record to 9.94 in reaching the semi-finals at last month’s World Athletics

his 10.28 personal best with a national junior record of 10.09.Botswana's Letsile Tebogo set a World Athletics




Amusan and Wightman among five world athletics champions set to go at Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

defend the title she won on the Gold Coast four years ago, when she takes part in the Commonwealth Games athletics

Amusan, who shattered the world 100 metres hurdles record en route to winning gold at last month’s World Athletics

this week ©Getty ImagesAmusan is one of five freshly-established world champions taking part in the athletics

world 200m champion Shericka Jackson will not be competing in Birmingham, according to the Jamaican Athletics


Mike Rowbottom: England women’s Euro 2022 win opens prospect of wider results

  • Inside the Blogs

Midway through last night’s Birmingham 2022 swimming session at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre the MC announced the result of the contest at Wembley Stadium that had just engaged the attention of almost 90,000 in person and a home television audience of more than 17 million.

the gatherings at what is now known as the London Stadium which witnessed the London 2012 Paralympic athletics



Key sporting officials invited to Birmingham in bid to secure more major events

  • West Midlands Growth Company

The West Midlands is to engage in talks with key sporting officials in the hope of bringing more major events to the English region after the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

be innovative, inclusive and appeal to our young and diverse population".Among those include World Athletics


World under-20 100m record-holder Tebogo to defend global age-group title in Cali

  • Athletics

world 100 metres under-20 record of 9.94sec earlier this month, will defend his title at the World Athletics

Tebogo, 19, who improved his own mark of 9.96 in reaching the semi-finals at the senior World Athletics

, who will compete in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium, told World Athletics

the short sprints," he said.South Africa's Mine de Klerk will defend her shot put title at the World Athletics

This will be a championships where fresh talent will be unearthed," said World Athletics President Sebastian

Another African hoping to provide a fresh source of athletics success is Mine de Klerk.The South African



Italy end Banská Bystrica EYOF on top of medals table

  • EOC

Italy added four more gold medals to its tally on the final day of the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) here in Banská Bystrica as it topped the overall standings.

golds and Spain's eight.Viola Paoletti claimed Italy's first gold of the day in girls' 3000 metres athletics

Bystrica 2022Alice Pagliarini, Stefano Pizzato, Valentina Vaccari, and Elisa Marcello then secured another athletics


Owen Lloyd: EYOF is just the beginning for Banská Bystrica and its athletes

  • Inside the Blogs

Banská Bystrica is a small, unassuming city in the heart of Slovakia with lofty ambitions following the finale of the 16th European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).

terms of attracting more sporting events.It has already been confirmed as the host of the 2024 European Athletics


Huge crowds see history made in marathons won by Kiplangat and Stenson

  • Birmingham 2022

Huge crowds gathered here today to witness historic achievements in Commonwealth Games marathon running as Australia’s Jessica Stenson won a record third medal in the event - this time a gold - and Victor Kiplangat became the first Ugandan to earn victory.

My coach and the Athletics Australia medical staff were really calm and said: 'Look people have had it