America's Sydney McLaughlin took a huge chunk out of her own world record at Tokyo 2020 here as she clocked 51.46sec to win an Olympic women’s 400 metres hurdles final that delivered a competitive spectacle to rival the previous day’s men’s version it so strangely resembled.

- Karsten Warholm reduced his own mark from 46.70 to 45.94sec - it was still a landmark race in an athletics

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Christine Mboma of Namibia, who was not allowed to run over her preferred distance of 400m because of World Athletics

Brazilian athletes from six different sports have gathered at the Paralympic Training Centre in São Paulo for final onboarding and preparations before flying to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Swimming, goalball, powerlifting, table tennis, athletics and sitting volleyball athletes are currently

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Board of Governors has called a constitutional convention in November, which could mark the first step towards a radical change in the governance of collegiate sports in the United States.

22-person Constitution Review Committee made up of university Presidents, conference commissioners, athletics

Munich 2022 welcomed cyclist Kristina Vogel and gymnast Fabian Hambüchen to a social media question and answer session, 'Ask the Athletes', to mark 400 days before the start of the 2022 European Championships in Germany.

to be the second edition of the event.The first was held in Glasgow in 2018, with Berlin staging the athletics

Cuban thrower Alegna Osorio, who competed at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympics, has died at the age of 19 following a training accident in April involving a hammer.

team but was given permission to train with coach Eladio Martin Hernandez Gonzalez at the stadium by Athletics

Armand Duplantis, 21, and 19-year-old Athing Mu became two of the youngest Olympic athletics champions

build-up to the Games.Both she and Beatrice Masilingi were prevented from running in the 400m by World Athletics

Georgia’s national shot put record holder Benik Abramyan, who was due to take part in this evening’s qualifying competition, has been provisionally suspended from competition following an adverse finding in an out-of-competition test on July 31.

Norway’s Karsten Warholm won one of the great Olympic finals here today to claim men’s 400 metres hurdles gold, taking almost a second off his own world record as he finished ahead of his United States rival Rai Benjamin in 45.94sec.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched an investigation into the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (NOCRB) after sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya alleged officials from the country had taken her to the airport against her will.

NOCRB ©Getty ImagesThe NOCRB had claimed in a statement the "coaching staff of the Belarusian national athletics

When Armand Duplantis, Katerina Stefanidi and their rivals go for Olympic gold in Tokyo this week, they will be vaulting on the shoulders of giants. A remarkable succession of these early champions came from the same friendly English market town that spawned comedian Stan Laurel.

I came across one such sentence on page 288 of a book called Track and Field Athletics that I picked

It is basically a compendium of then state-of-the-art information relating to a succession of athletics

Sifan Hassan successfully negotiated the first of the three Olympic challenges she has set for herself here as she won the women's 5,000 metres gold medal.

The other two finals on the evening session of day four of the athletics programme saw Valarie Allman

I am so honoured that this has been a first gold medal in Tokyo [for the US in athletics]," Allman said

Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has queried the decision to award a gold medal each to high jumpers Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi after they both cleared 2.37 metres in the Olympic final.

final Olympics at London 2012.The Russian also won the gold medal at the 2005, 2007 and 2013 World Athletics

Championships.It is the first joint Olympic gold in athletics since Stockholm 1912's pentathlon and

It was, is, will be a classic water cooler discussion point: can you, should you, share sporting success? Can an Olympic title, for instance, properly be shared, as it was, is and will be in the Tokyo 2020 Games men’s high jump?

#Athletics #Olympics pic.twitter.com/DJCPNmvxHu— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) August 1, 2021One of my young

Meanwhile, something was nagging at me, at the back of my mind, a previous occasion in athletics, maybe

story of how Barshim had not only experienced victory in this same arena earlier in the year, at the athletics

in an event that was closed to spectators due to local COVID-19 restrictions and doubled as a World Athletics

Juan Miguel Echevarria, seeking to emulate the Olympic long jump victory earned by Cuban compatriot Ivan Pedrosa at Sydney 2000, had gold snatched from his grasp by the last-round effort of Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece at Tokyo 2020. 

national record of 22.63, have switched events to the shorter sprint after this month’s ruling by World Athletics