The men’s and women’s 200 metres delivered richly in Eugene as Noah Lyles defended his world title in a United States record of 19.31sec - leading a second home sweep in the men’s sprints - and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson earned a first global gold in 21.45, the second fastest time ever.

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earning further glory at the imminent Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and next month’s European Athletics

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This week, details emerged of the Queen’s Baton's grand entry into Birmingham City Centre for the 2022 Commonwealth Games next Wednesday (July 27).

his famous horse Charisma.Todd passed it on to Sir Peter Snell, a triple Olympic gold medallist in athletics

Laurent Nuñez has taken over from Didier Lallement as chief of Paris police after the Champions League final in May which left the latter "wounded by the failure" at Olympics 2024 venue Stade de France.

The Stade de France is set to stage rugby sevens, athletics, and the Closing Ceremony at the Paris 2024

Olympics before hosting the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletics and road cycling finishes come

"Making it big in America" has been an obsession of British pop groups and singers ever since The Beatles became a cultural phenomenon across the Atlantic in the 1960s.

Championships in Oregon as the launching off point for his sport to spark interest in athletics, sweeping

 To suggest that Eugene is indictive of how popular athletics is in the US is as much of a mistake

The new athletic series in the US supported by World Athletics had me upset," he wrote.

Athletics supported series … Yet, Coe dedicates time and resources to a series in the US where there

 "We know it [athletics] is a national obsession," he told me.

Papua New Guinea's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games believes the country's diverse population will all be behind their team at the Commonwealth Games.

Birmingham 2022 ©Getty ImagesPapua New Guinea will be taking 33 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in six sports - athletics

Brooke Andersen, winner of last Sunday’s women’s hammer throw at the World Athletics Championships in

Eugene, became the latest athlete to donate items to the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) collection

It’s such an honor to be here," she told World Athletics."

The event, hosted by MOWA director Chris Turner, was held on day five of the World Athletics Championships

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, whose spikes from his 1984 1500m gold and 800m silver-medal

You can see it at the Museum of World Athletics Museum In Eugene @ The World Championships!

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ImagesThe win marked Jeruto's first senior global gold and the first ever title for Kazakhstan at the World Athletics

champion after Li Yanfeng triumphed in 2011 ©Getty ImagesCroatia's Sandra Perković podiumed at the World Athletics

throw of 68.45m ©Getty ImagesTokyo 2020 champion Valarie Allman won the United States' first World Athletics

With more than 850 known languages spoken, Papua New Guinea is one of the most diverse countries in the world.

silvers ©Getty ImagesPapua New Guinea will be taking 33 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in six sports - athletics

s former Kenyan 3,000 metres steeplechaser Norah Jeruto won gold in a super-fast final at the World Athletics

of which was gold at the Moscow 2013 World Championships.In the other final on day six of the World Athletics

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she secured her third 800m gold, has since been obliged to move to a new event following the World Athletics

world 800m champion Caster Semenya failed to progress from the heats of the women's 5,000m at the World Athletics

The full sports schedule for the Santiago 2023 Pan American and Parapan American Games has been revealed by organisers.

October 29, with the final seven days of the Games featuring 25 disciplines including track and field athletics

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Caster Semenya, who will run at the World Athletics Championships for the first time in five years having

eligibility rules, will receive "the same treatment and same services" as any other athlete in Eugene, World Athletics

where she won her third 800 metres title.Since then she has switched to longer events due to the World Athletics

President Sebastian Coe says former world 800m champion Caster Semenya, competing at the World Athletics

We have two categories in our sport: one is age and one is gender," added the World Athletics President

Athletes like Christine Mboma were forced to move from the 400m to the 200m due to World Athletics rules

to use oxygen.She took medication after an initial ruling in 2011 by the IAAF - which became World Athletics

Indian sprinter Dhanalakshmi Sekar and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu will not compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games here after testing positive for doping.

Sekar and Babu had been chosen as part of India's 36-person athletics squad for the Games that are set

in India.Sekar returned a positive result for a banned steroid following testing carried out by the Athletics

Babu's sample that was taken by India's National Anti-Doping Agency during the National Inter-State Athletics

Nanda in the women's 4x100m relay.She was among many athletes that were unable to run at the World Athletics

Solomon Islands has named its largest-ever Commonwealth Games team for Birmingham 2022.

named 19 athletes for the Games here, across eight different sports.They will compete in aquatics, athletics

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Dame Louise Martin hailed the contribution of Birmingham City Council in setting the stage for an "outstanding" Commonwealth Games here despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

transformation of the Alexander Stadium that is set to stage the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as the athletics