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‘My time is coming’: Australia’s Jessica Hull scoops medal double at world indoors
1500m runner claims silver medal to add to 3000m bronze Adam Spencer wins bronze in men’s event on final day in Poland Jessica Hull won a medal for the second time in a weekend and cracked another national record as the Australian middle-distance ace claimed silver in the 1500m at the world indoor championships in Poland. With Adam Spencer winning a surprise maiden global medal in the equivalent men’s event, Australia celebrated five medals from their three-day visit to Torun – even if gold di
US high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus wins 800m to become youngest ever indoor world champion
17-year-old took time off high school to win gold Beats Belgium’s Eliott Crestan by 0.14 seconds US teenager Cooper Lutkenhaus made history on Sunday when he won gold in the 800m to becomes the youngest ever champion at the world indoor athletics championship. The 17-year-old, who took time off from his classes at Northwest High School in Texas to compete at the championships, won gold with a time of 1min, 44.24sec, 0.14 seconds ahead of Belgium’s Eliott Crestan. Mohamed Attaoui of Spain won b
GB strike golden treble at world indoors with Hodgkinson, Hunter Bell and Caudery
Keely Hodgkinson caps famous night for British team Georgia Hunter Bell and Molly Caudery also take glory Amid a gold rush for the ages, one image became instantly seared on the mind: Georgia Hunter Bell, Molly Caudery and Keely Hodgkinson jumping in pure delirium, before screaming like banshees as they revelled in surely the greatest night for British athletics since the London 2012 Olympics. You could hear them high in the stands in Torun. And, one hopes, even louder in homes up and down the
Jess Hull and Kurtis Marschall win bronze as Australia eye more medals on final day at world indoors
Hull claims third in rough-and-tumble 3,000m final Pole vaulter Marshchall clears 6m for first time in a championship Jess Hull and Kurtis Marschall have won bronze medals at the world athletics indoor championships on another successful day for the Australian team in Poland. Hull’s bronze sets up the prospect of a rare double medal weekend after she accidentally pushed over the race favourite en route to finishing third in a rough-and-tumble 3,000m in Torun on Saturday. Continue reading...
Josh Kerr surges to world indoor gold and makes ‘night night’ gesture at rival
Scot wins 3,000m in 7min 35.56sec to regain title Kerr goads Cole Hocker with reprisal of celebration Brilliance and controversy are never far apart when it comes to Josh Kerr. It is what makes him such a compelling athlete. And after storming to a thrilling world indoor 3,000m title here in Torun, the Briton was quick to apply a sharp twist of the knife. As he crossed the line, Kerr made NBA star Steph Curry’s famous ‘night night’ celebration, putting both hands against his cheek to signify t
USA’s Jordan Anthony wins 60m world gold after his blood clot ‘the size of a soccer ball’
Clot appeared in his arm after injection in wrong place ‘I will never let the devil stop me from getting a gold’ On a night of dizzying speed and freakish drama, track and field found itself a new sprint sensation. It came in the form of Jordan Anthony, a 21-year-old American with one heck of a story, along with the first global gold medal around his neck. “The devil is always going to try, but I will never let him stop me from getting a gold medal,” he said after winning one of the great worl
Nicola Olyslagers forced to settle for silver in world indoor high jump
Australian misses out on fourth world crown Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins with jump of 2.01m Nicola Olyslagers has missed out in her bid to add another global gold to her collection, having to settle for silver at the world indoor championships in Poland on Friday. Hoping to launch Australia’s challenge in Torun with a fourth successive world title, indoors and out, defending champ Olyslagers met her match in her rejuvenated rival Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who soared to victory. Continue rea
Hodgkinson shrugs off kit mishap to cruise into world indoor 800m semi-finals
Briton wins heat despite blister from borrowed spikes ‘I won’t be happy with anything other than gold’ No opponent has come close to knocking Keely Hodgkinson off her stride in 2026. But after breezing into the semi-finals of the world indoor championships, she revealed that her preparations had been interrupted by an airline, KLM, losing her kit for 48 hours on the flight to Poland. It led to the overwhelming favourite for 800m gold having to train in whatever she could beg or borrow – and ge
Keely Hodgkinson leads British medal hopes at world indoor championships
Josh Kerr and Georgia Hunter Bell are also among the medal contenders making up a strong British team in Poland Due to a fault in their plane’s GPS, the British team for the world indoor championships arrived at their hotel in Torun late on Wednesday night. Perhaps they should have asked Keely Hodgkinson to guide them. After all, she knows this place better than most, and she is absolutely locked on reaching her target – a first world gold medal – in Poland this weekend. “I’m looking forward to
‘The one medal I don’t have’: confident Keely Hodgkinson targets a first world title
‘It’s been great. I couldn’t ask to be in a better position’ Hodgkinson 800m favourite at world indoors in Poland Keely Hodgkinson believes she could not be in better shape to win a first world title this weekend having kicked on again after breaking the indoor 800m world record last month. The Olympic champion is the overwhelming favourite for gold at the world indoor championships in Kujawy Pomorze, Poland, and sounded bullish when asked if she had pushed on in training after obliterating Jo
‘The only thing left for me was death’: meet the meth-addict long jumper who has been to hell and back
Three years ago Luvo Manyonga knew he must change his life or die. In Poland this week, the former world champion makes an extraordinary return to athletics’ top table Sprawled prone in the dirt, the cold metal of a baseball bat cracking against his skull, spine and down to the legs that had once propelled him to glory, Luvo Manyonga experienced an epiphany. This existence could not continue; he must change his life or die. Manyonga had been a drug addict for as long as he could remember, seekin
‘People will always hate but my opinion is all that matters’: GB sprinter Amy Hunt on fame, abuse and becoming ‘an icon’
The 23-year-old who went viral last year has plenty of targets for 2026, starting with the World Indoor Championships in Poland Amy Hunt’s mind is flashing back to the moment she unwittingly went viral last September. As untrammelled joy charged through her body, the BBC asked about her unusual journey from an English degree at Cambridge to a shock 200m world championship silver medal. Hunt’s response quickly became a cri du coeur to young girls everywhere: “You can be an academic badass and a t
Sports quiz of the week: world records, wrong turns and wild scenes
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Michael Johnson accused of taking $500,000 from debt-ridden track league
Court filing claims project leader took money days before collapse Grand Slam Track filed for bankruptcy owing up to $50m Michael Johnson has been accused of paying himself $500,000 (£372,000) eight days before his Grand Slam Track project collapsed before the final event in Los Angeles, leaving athletes and creditors owed millions. The claim is made by vendors in a legal filing in which they have also sought permission to sue individual leaders of GST, including Johnson and the main investor,
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo storms to half-marathon world record in Lisbon
25-year-old sets mark of 57min 20sec Ugandan had previously set record in 2021 Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo regained the half-marathon world record on Sunday, storming to victory in a stunning time of 57 minutes and 20 seconds in Lisbon. The 25-year-old shaved 10 seconds off the previous world record, set by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha in Valencia in 2024. Kiplimo last held the record in 2021, when he clocked 57:31 on the same Lisbon course. Continue reading...
‘I think I could run even faster’: the NZ teenager shattering athletics records
Sam Ruthe, 16, was the youngest person to break the four-minute mile in 2025 and this year the ‘remarkable’ running talent extended his record streak Before the teenage New Zealand runner, Sam Ruthe, took to Boston University’s famous indoor track in January, he told his father he was aiming to run a 3.48-minute mile. The 16-year-old had already stunned the athletics world in 2025, when he became the youngest person ever to break the four-minute mile barrier – aged 15 – but his father, Ben Ruthe
US Half Marathon Championship ends in chaos as lead runners guided in wrong direction
Lead vehicle takes top-three off main course Jess McClain falls from first to ninth USA Track & Field has denied an appeal after its Half Marathon Championship in Atlanta ended in chaos. With less than two miles to go in the women’s race, Jess McClain had a significant lead over Ednah Kurgat and Emma Hurley when the guide vehicle took the trio off course. Molly Born, who had been more than a minute behind the leaders, came through to win the race, with Carrie Ellwood and and Annie Rodenfels in
Gout Gout dazzles again with Australian record-equalling 100m time
18-year-old runs 10.00 (+0.9) seconds in first race of 2026 Equal-fastest legal 100m run by an Australian on home soil Sprint sensation Gout Gout has clocked the equal-fastest legal 100m run by an Australian on home soil, notching 10.00 (+0.9) seconds in his first race at the distance in 2026. Teenage superstar Gout is edging closer to legally breaking the magical 10-second barrier after a wonderful performance at the Dane Bird-Smith Shield Meet at QSAC on Saturday. Continue reading...
UK Athletics pleads guilty to corporate manslaughter after death of Paralympian
Plea follows 2017 death of UAE’s Abdullah Hayayei UKA could face fine of between £1.2m and £5m UK Athletics is facing a seven-figure fine after pleading guilty to corporate manslaughter in the death of a Paralympian who was hit on the head by a metal pole while preparing for the London World Para Athletics Championships in 2017. The incident occurred at Newham Leisure Centre when the pole, which was attached to a throwing cage, fell on Abdullah Hayayei while he was training. Emergency services
‘That was fun’: Keely Hodgkinson smashes world record set on day she was born
Olympic champion breaks indoor 800m mark in France Former record set 24 years ago on Hodgkinson’s birthday Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson obliterated the world indoor 800m record, which has stood since 2002, by nearly a second in a stunning performance in Liévin. Hodgkinson had made no secret that she believed the record of 1min 55.82sec, set by Slovenia’s Jolanda Ceplak on the same day Hodgkinson was born – 3 March 2002 – was there for the taking after a prep race at the British
‘No cushion, no seatbelt, no airbag’: the GB bobsledder who races with her eyes closed
Ashleigh Nelson is in the mix for a bobsleigh medal at the Winter Olympics – but that doesn’t mean she enjoys it Ashleigh Nelson was never meant to be in the Winter Olympics. If you’d asked her 18 months ago where she expected to be competing this week, she would have told you she would be at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham running the 60m at the UK Indoor Championships, not standing at the top of the world’s newest ice track riding a £75,000 bobsleigh. “I was tricked into it,” Nelson says. “You
Jeremiah Azu completes surprise sprint double at UK indoor championships
Azu adds 200m gold to 60m title in Birmingham Issy Boffey wins 800m after Hodgkinson withdrawal Amid a raft of high-profile absentees from Birmingham this weekend it was quite the surprise to see Jeremiah Azu’s name on the 200m start list for the UK Athletics Indoor Championships on Sunday. The 200m is not contested internationally during the indoor season so elite athletes almost never race it, and Azu had already won the 60m title a day earlier. In an era where world-class athletes tend to w
Dina Asher-Smith blasts back to form with 60m UK Indoor Championships record
Asher-Smith runs 7.05, her third-quickest time Keely Hodgkinson sets national indoor 800m record Given the doldrums British female sprinting was in before her emergence, it was perhaps little surprise that Dina Asher-Smith stood largely unchallenged on the national stage for the best part of her 20s. So, it was to some raised eyebrows that the country’s sprint queen was usurped by Amy Hunt last summer – the young upstart claiming world championships 200m silver, while Asher-Smith faded to fift
Cricket, football, athletics: the Caribbean’s sporting success is extraordinary – so why does it feel like a missed opportunity? | Kenneth Mohammed
As the men’s football World Cup looms, the region’s prowess is often seen in terms of inspirational hardship, but the political will to treat sport strategically is lacking The US is preparing to co-host the 2026 World Cup while also deciding who is allowed to attend. For the Caribbean, that contradiction is familiar. In nearly a century of men’s World Cup football, only four Caribbean nations have ever qualified. This year, more finally will, but many of their supporters, especially Haitians, w
Australian sprint star Gout Gout will not race at 2026 Commonwealth Games
Gout opts to focus on world under-20 championships Teenage sensation’s absence is blow to Glasgow event The Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout has decided not to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this year. The 18-year-old will instead focus on the world under-20 championships in August, where he hopes to emulate the legendary Usain Bolt. The two events are taking place back-to-back, with Gout and his support team deeming it unwise for him to contest both so early in his burgeoni