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World champion Blanka Vlasic led Europe to victory at the Continental Cup Sunday, but was unable to ride an emotional wave of hometown support in her latest assault on the high jump world record.Vlasic equalled her season-best leap of 2.05 before att...

European sprint king Christophe Lemaitre took advantage of the missing Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay to clinch victory in the 100m at the Continental Cup on Saturday.World record holder Bolt has ended his season while US sprinter Gay was taking part only ...

With a regal smile, Wilson Kipketer anointed new 800m world record holder David Rudisha as his successor here on Friday, on the eve of the inaugural IAAF Continental Cup."It's just the beginning," said Kenyan-born Kipketer, who was crowned world cham...

Double European distance champion Mohammed Farah has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games, citing fatigue after a draining season."My body is telling me it is time to take a break," said the 27-year-old, who won gold for Britain in the 5000 and 10,00...

Disgraced former Olympic and world champion Justin Gatlin says he has turned a corner and is not looking back.Gatlin was the fastest man on the planet and the star of the athletics world when he won Olympic 100m gold in Athens in 2004 and followed th...

South Africa's controversial women's 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya flopped here on Tuesday as she could only finish seventh in a below par field.The 19-year-old only recently returned to action after being cleared following a controversial...

American sprinter Mark Jelks was slapped with a two-year suspension for violating anti-doping rules which oversee how out-of-competition tests are conducted.The United States Anti-doping Agency said Monday the 26-year-old Jelks missed one test and al...

Rieti meeting results on Sunday:Men 100m (wind: +0.9 m/s): 1. Nester Carter (JAM) 9.78 2. Ryan Bailey (USA) 9.88 3. Mario Forsythe (JAM) ...

Timeline of men's 800m world record after Kenya's David Rudisha set a new mark for the second time in a week of 1min 41.01sec at a meeting in Rieti, Italy:1:44.3: David Wottle (USA), 01/07/72 at Eugene (USA)1:43.7: Marcello Fiasconaro (ITA), 27/06/73...

Results from the Hokkaido marathon on Sunday:Men 1. Cyrus Njui (KEN) 2hr 11min 22sec2. Harun Njoroge Mbugua (KEN) 2:13:04 3. Mekubo Job Mogusu (KEN) 2:16:38 4. Masaru Takamizawa (JPN) 2:18:17 5. Tetsuo Nishimura (JPN) 2...

World 800m record holder David Rudisha and former women's 800m world champion Janeth Jepkosgei were included in a 47-member team named on Saturday for the Commonwealth Games in India in October.Rudisha and Jepkosgei, along with a host of top athlete...

Brussels Diamond League results on Friday:Men 100 m (wind: +0.1 m/s): 1. Tyson Gay (USA) 9.79 2. Nester Carter (JAM) 9.85 3. Yohan Blake (JAM) ...

US sprinter Tyson Gay overcame a false start to steam to victory in the 100m at the season's final Diamond League meet here on Friday, but Caster Semenya failed in her bid to win the women's 800m.In a season which has seen Jamaican duo Usain Bolt and...

South Africa's reigning 800m world champion Caster Semenya could only finish third in her debut on the Diamond League series at the final meet of the 14-leg series here on Friday.Semenya was racing in only her fourth outing since returning from 11 mo...

A Japanese travel agency is organising a package tour for participants in an annual marathon event on Antarctica at a somewhat extreme price -- 4,444,000 yen (52,000 dollars) per head.The tour will go ahead if at least one person joins it and two par...

Kenyan David Rushida, the newly-crowned men's 800m world record holder, is confident of going even faster although he admits he will have to make some tweaks to his second lap tactics.Rudisha clocked 1min 41.09sec in Berlin last weekend to take two-h...

Sixteen athletes will be crowned winners of IAAF Diamond League trophies at the final of the 14-leg series here on Friday.Athletes with the most points in the series in the 16 disciplines will walk away with 40,000 dollars and a trophy, the first 16 ...

Kenya's Mary Keitany, the 25-kilometer world record-holder, and Japan's Arata Fujiwara were among eight new entrants announced Wednesday by organizers of the 41st New York Marathon.The November 7 race will be the marathon debut for Keitany, the reign...

Benin will host the 18th edition of the African athletics championships in June 2012, the country's athletics federation president, Theophile Montcho, announced Wednesday.Montcho added that although the Charles de Gaulle stadium in Porto-Novo, 30km e...

Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt has renewed his contract with German sportswear giant Puma through until the end of 2013.Puma said that while the specific terms of the contract were undisclosed, the deal would make the reigning 100m and 200m wor...

Pakistan has banned seven top athletes for two years over doping offences just two months ahead of the Commonwealth Games, an official said Monday.The athletes tested positive for banned steroids at the national championships last month.They were nam...

Wilson Kipketer on Monday said he was not surprised to hear that David Rudisha had smashed his long-standing 800m world record, forecasting a big future for the young Kenyan runner.Denmark's Kenyan-born Kipketer had held the record since August 1997 ...

Wilson Kipketer on Monday said he was not surprised to hear that David Rudisha had smashed his long-standing 800m world record, forecasting a big future for the young Kenyan runner.Denmark's Kenyan-born Kipketer had held the record since August 1997 ...

Main results from IAAF Grand Prix meeting held here on Sunday:Men100 metres (wind: +0.1 metres/second): 1. Nesta Carter (JAM) 9.96seconds 2. Mario Forsythe (JAM) 10.11 3. Richard Thompson (TRI) 10.18400m: 1. ...

World indoor champion Tariku Bekele admitted he had only planned to be a pacesetter, but felt so good he went onto win the 3000 metres here in the world's fastest time so far this season.The 23-year-old, younger brother of 5,000 and 10,000m world rec...

Australia's Olympic and world pole vault champion Steven Hooker failed to record one successful vault for the fourth time this season here on Sunday.The 28-year-old had said on Friday that the Olympic Stadium in Berlin was his favourite but just like...

World 800m champion Caster Semenya ran a season's best time of one minute 59.90 seconds to easily win her third comeback race here on Sunday as she rebuilds her career after her sex test ordeal.The 19-year-old South African was back at Berlin's Olymp...

Jamaica has a history of uncovering sprint stars and looks to have another on its hands in Odane Skeen, who claimed the 100m title at the inaugural Youth Olympics.Skeen powered over the line in a personal best 10.42 seconds, ahead of Japan's Masaki N...

World 800m champion Caster Semenya admits she will be taking a step into the unknown on Sunday as she looks to rebuild her career in the wake of her sex test ordeal and prepare for the London Olympics.The 19-year-old won the World Championships at Be...

A year after her controversial victory, world 800m champion Caster Semenya will be back at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on Sunday as she rebuilds her career after her sex test ordeal.Semenya has been at the centre of a storm ever since she won the world ...