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Lasitskene, representing the ROC, added Olympic high jump gold to her three world titles ©Getty ImagesThe athletics

Norway’s 20-year-old boy wonder Jakob Ingebrigtsen became Olympic 1500 metres champion here tonight as he ended a run of 12 successive defeats by Kenya’s world champion Timothy Cheruiyot.

Neeraj Chopra tonight became the first Indian to win an Olympic athletics title - and only the second

upon which version of history you prefer, Chopra might also have delivered India’s first ever Olympic athletics

It is the first time India has won a gold in athletics, so I feel very good."

This is our first Olympic medal for a very long time, and in athletics it is the first time we have gold

three throws after two fouls and a meagre best of 82.52m.Neeraj Chopra earned India its first Olympic athletics

who threw 85.16m in qualifying to become the first athlete from Pakistan to make an Olympic final in athletics

Mariya Lasitskene is the Olympic champion in the women’s high jump after clinching victory at the Japan National Stadium at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Rio 2016, but she has dominated the sport in recent years.She has won gold at the last three World Athletics

1.89m.Lasitskene has been awarded several honours and titles, including being named Female Rising Star by European Athletics

of the Year at the Pride of Russia awards in 2019 and joint-European Athlete of the Year by European Athletics

Italy’s Marcell Jacobs, who won gold here in the men’s 100 metres and 4x100m, cut ties with fitness expert Giacomo Spazzini in March following reports of a police investigation into the distribution of anabolic steroids, his agent confirmed.

Caterine Ibarguen, Colombia’s Rio 2016 triple jump gold medallist and world champion of 2013 and 2015, has announced her retirement aged 37 following the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Colombia to win Olympic gold in athletics.In 2018, Ibarguen was voted the International Association of Athletics

Ibarguen, who has a Master’s degree in sports management and recently had an athletics stadium named

after her in her home town of Apartado, told El Pais: "I will be linked to athletics all my life

Afterwards I will keep on working to develop athletics in Colombia."

Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir stole a march on her team-mate, world record holder Brigid Kosgei, to win the women's marathon title on a day of heat and humidity in Sapporo which also saw a surprise bronze medal for Molly Seidel of the United States.

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ParalympicsGB has announced that Ola Abidogun, Hetty Bartlett and James Freeman have been added to Britain's athletics

medallist, will compete in the men’s T47 100 metres.He also won bronze at the most recent European Para Athletics

Championships and reached the final at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.Both Bartlett and

Freeman are set to make their Paralympic debuts after progressing through the British Athletics Futures

Jenkins and Andrew Small.The Surrey-based athlete recently came fourth in the event at the European Para Athletics

Championships in Bydgoszcz in Poland.At Rio 2016, Britain finished third in the athletics medals table

Italy brought their gold medal total in athletics to five in the space of five hours today as a stupendous

whose followers in the stadium sang long and loudly into the muggy night, now stand joint top in the athletics

Italy's men's 4x100m relay team celebrate the capture of their country's fifth athletics gold at  

We won the Eurovision, we won the football European Championships, we won five gold medals (in athletics

The Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE) has added a further four athletes to its team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games later this month, taking its total up to 139.

A team of 135 was announced on July 14, and four athletes have now been added to take part in Para athletics

Cheptegei had shown similar poise to add 5,000m gold to the 10,000m silver he won on the opening day of athletics

On Sunday, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will close the Games with time-honoured words, but modified slightly because of the circumstances. He will say: "In accordance with our tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to join us three years from now in Paris, there to celebrate with us the Games of the 33rd Olympiad." 

the 1924 Games, and the management also included IOC member Albert Glandaz, politician Gaston Vidal, athletics

Jeux d’Enfance" or Children’s Games, such as basketball, on the days when the stadium was not used for athletics

factor in convincing FIFA that the first World  Cup tournament should be hosted there in 1930.The athletics

absences.And in contrast to 2024 when "equality" is certain to be a buzzword, no women took part in athletics

The case involving Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is "deplorable" and two officials involved being sent home from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is not the end of the matter, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach claimed here.

her family after Belarusian coaches tried to send her home from Tokyo 2020 against her will.Belarus athletics

The NOCRB claimed in a statement the "coaching staff of the Belarusian national athletics team made a

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) continues to use the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as an opportunity to meet with National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

since Atlanta 1996 this week as Christine Mboma claimed silver in the women’s 200 metres after World Athletics