Two-time Olympic finalist Erriyon Knighton has been banned for four years in a doping case, ruling him out of the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
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Ethiopian middle-distance runner and strong medal chance Diribe Welteji has been barred from the world athletics championships in Japan.
Rohan Browning and Jessica Hull will be among a host of big-name Australians in action on day one of the world athletics championships in Tokyo.
John Salvado
Usain Bolt has delivered a simple piece of advice to Gout Gout as the Australian teenage sprint sensation prepares for his first world championships.
A rising star who has already been compared to the great Sally Pearson is primed to make her mark at the world athletics championships.
Pole vaulter Nina Kennedy, who won gold at last year's Olympics, is out of the Tokyo world championships because of a new leg injury.
Roger Vaughan and John Salvado
Reigning Olympic gold medal pole vaulter Nina Kennedy has suffered another injury on the eve of a World Championship push.
Aaron Kirby
The Australian team for the upcoming world athletics championships in Tokyo will be even bigger than the one at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
After recovering from major hamstring surgery, pole vault superstar Nina Kennedy is taking a whole new mindset into her world championships title defence.
Dutch superstar Sifan Hassan and Ethiopia's Hailemaryam Kiros have triumphed in the Sydney marathon as Kenyan legend Eliud Kipchoge battled to ninth.
Joanna Guelas
American Noah Lyles has beaten Botswana's Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo to win his sixth Diamond League title in a row, as the two continued their rivalry.
Jess Hull has suffered a wretched finale to her bid to win a Diamond League title, miscalculating her 1500m final charge only to get pipped on the line.
Ian Chadband
Nicola Olyslagers has won the Diamond League high jump title with a record-breaking display that's sent a message to all her world championship rivals.
Injuries have ruled two Australian stars out of the world athletics championships in Tokyo.
Victorian veteran Linden Hall has produced a lifetime best 1500 metres run to finish runner-up in the Brussels Diamond League meeting.
Despite rain-sodden conditions in Lausanne, Aussie high jump ace Nicola Olyslagers has splashed to a third Diamond League win of the season.
Middle-distance star Claudia Hollingsworth produced the stand-out Australian performance at the Silesia Diamond League meet.
Things got a bit physical at the US athletics championships in Oregon, with sprinter Kenny Bednarek shoving Noah Lyles in the back after the 200-metre final.
World Athletics has announced all athletes wishing to compete in the female category at world-ranking events must now pass a one-time genetic sex tesst
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Gout Gout — the rapid-quick sprint sensation who has taken the country by storm this year — has revealed he plans to run at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Jackson Barrett
Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull has set an Oceanian and Australian national mile record while finishing runner-up at the London Diamond League meeting.
Amazing Gout Gout has won an under-23 race at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco in trademark style, maybe deprived of a sub-20sec 200m by a headwind.
Australian Jessica Hull produced the standout Australian performance as two world records were broken at the Diamond League meet in Oregon.
Faith Kipyegon gave it her best, but the Kenyan's orchestrated bid to become the first woman to break four minutes for a mile never came close in Paris.
