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Olympic silver medallists Orlando Ortega and Luguelín Santos headline the line-up for the Ibero-American Athletics Championships, with the best athletes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations being joined by guests Ukraine at the competition.

ERNEST JOHN “EJ” OBIENA wore a yellow-over-blue tape around his left wrist as he jumped to a silver medal he dedicated to war-torn Ukraine on Sunday at the Perche Elite Tour at the Complexe Kindarena in Rouen, France. Although he missed the gold medal, Obiena’s leap of 5.91 meters was…

Woo Sanghyeok continued his strong season and Eleanor Patterson was in record-breaking form.

Barshim ready for Florence challenge  10 Jun 2021 - 9:40 Qatars Mutaz Essa Barshim talks with Italys Gianmarco Tamberi during the World Athletics Championships in Doha in this file photo. Fawad Hussain/ The Peninsula Reigning world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim is ready to compete against a strong field in the high jump event of the third Diamond League meeting, which takes place in Florence, Italy today. It will be the second appearance for Qatar’s gravity-defying athlete this Diamond Leagu...

Spectators were not present due to strict COVID-19 protocols but athletes still produced thrilling performances, with Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, and America’s Katie Nageotte claiming memorable victories.

Wednesday, 3 March 2021 European Athletics will stage the first multi-discipline championships in the sport since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic when the 36 th edition of its Indoor Championships start at the Torun Arena in Poland tomorrow. Among the world-class athletes who will be taking advantage of this landmark opportunity will be Norway’s 20-year-old European 1500 and 5,000 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who will seek to earn the 1500-3,000m double that just eluded him at...

Monday, 1 March 2021 The old insult about "fans with typewriters" was not coined without reason. As a member of the press - I believe I may still use that term? - you are supposed to report the truth - I believe this concept still exists? - without bias. Or at least to try. What tests that icy impartiality in the sporting arena is usually nationality, sometimes affinity, sometimes both. So it was understandable that there was a special exultation in the success of British high jumper Dalton Gr...

Tuesday, 16 February 2021 Grant Holloway, the world 110 metres hurdles champion, will have a world record in his sights again as he competes tomorrow in the Polish venue  of Torun in the fifth of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings. The 23-year-old from Chesapeake, Virginia came within 0.02sec of the world 60m hurdles record set in 1994 by Britain’s Colin Jackson when he clocked 7.32sec in winning at the third Gold meeting in the French city of Liévin last Tuesday (Fe...

Tuesday, 2 February 2021 Former world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy took the Banskobystrická latka title after defeating defending champion Luis Zayas of Cuba in Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. Tamberi continued his strong start to the season, which saw him take victory on home soil in Ancona last weekend with a world leading jump of 2.32 metres. On this occasion, Tamberi jumped faultlessly up to 2.31m, before twice failing at 2.33m and once at 2.35m, although by this point he had ...

    The Banskobystrická latka is a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver level meeting. Some of the Gold level meetings were unable to accommodate a mens high jump competition – one of the scoring disciplines for this year – due to Covid restrictions, so to allow for an extra scoring opportunity, the men’s high jump contest in Banska Bystrica will count towards the scoring in the Gold series. BACK Disciplines