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Hayward Field has proven to be a very happy hunting ground for China’s Wang Jianan.

Wang Jianan's history-making leap at the world championships has confirmed China's emergence as an elite long-jump nation, with a sustainable talent program masterminded by one of the sport's leading experts reaping golden rewards.

88th Battle of the Saints Dunith Wellalage and Shevon Daniel excelled with good all-round performances yet St. Peter’s took day one honours against St. Joseph’s at the 88th Battle of the Saint’s encounter at the P. Sara Oval on Monday. St. Peter’s batting for the second time were 35 for two wickets at stumps with […]

Rex Clementine in Galle Pakistan captain Babar Azam proved why he is rated as one of the modern day greats with a back to the wall century that helped Pakistan dig themselves out of trouble in the first Test against Sri Lanka. At 148 for nine, the writing was on the wall for Pakistan as […]

Tamim Iqbal has announced his retirement from T20Is shortly after leading the ODI side to a 3-0 series win over West Indies in Guyana. Bangladesh won the match by four wickets, with Tamim winning the player-of-the-series award. At around 6pm local time, he wrote a short message on his official Facebook page, posting in Bangla saying, “consider […]

By a Special Sports Correspondent Isipatana College pulled off a hard fought 29 points to 17 win against St. Peter’s College in a Division 1 Segment A Group 2 A inter-school under 19 rugby match played at Havelock Park on Sunday.On Saturday (July 16) Royal College did well to pull off a sensational 20 points […]

Before most of the field knew what hit it Saturday night, Chase Ealey had already won the women’s shot put at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. Ealey was throwing first in the order in the shot put final at the reimagined Hayward Field at the University of Oregon and wasted no time. On that first throw, Ealey […]

By Mitch Phillips EUGENE, Ore. (Reuters) - Wang Jianan of China produced a last-round leap of 8.36 metres to snatch World Championships long jump gold...

By Mitch Phillips EUGENE, Ore. (Reuters) - Wang Jianan of China produced a last-round leap of 8.36 metres to snatch World Championships long jump gold...

Summary of the action from the afternoon session on day two