The flying Croatian Blanka Vlasic delivered her Balkan nation its first World Championships medal of any sort tonight as she danced her way to the World title, winning the greatest women’s high jump ...

Allyson Felix won her third gold medal in four days at the Nagai Stadium tonight as she provided the crucial leg to help the United States quartet to dominate and win its fourth women’s 4x400m relay ...

Only disaster would have stopped the United States winning the last title on offer at these championships. It was just a matter of how many superlatives they could accrue along the way. As the ...

Maryam Yusuf Jamal delivered her adopted country of Bahrain's first ever women's championship medal, as she overtook the early leader, Russia's Yelena Soboleva, with just over 200m to run and clocked ...

Tero Pitkamaki had gone unbeaten all season apart from the freak accident in Rome, when an errant spear hit French long jumper, Salim Sdiri, putting the Finn off the competition. On that single ...

An event which has served up a number of shock gold medallists in the past produced another, as Kenya’s unheralded Alfred Kirwa Yego snatched victory in the final strides of a tactical, slow-run ...

Had Bernard Lagat ordered up a race plan to ensure that he would win the 5,000m gold medal here, and thus become the first man in World Championships history to complete a 1,500-5,000 double, then ...

This was hot. In conditions which would make a casual Sunday morning stroll feel like hard work in a hot shower, Catherine Ndereba regained the World title she had won in 2003 in the most closely ...

The face-off between the United States and Jamaica ended in a victory for the US by just 0.03sec, and set up 200m champion Allyson Felix for a possible three gold medals at the championships. The ...