Thomas Barr capped off a breakthrough year with a fifth-place finish in the Brussels Diamond League and afterwards, the 23-year-old spoke to JumpingTheGun about his breakthrough year. Barr ran 49.80 in a race won by Jeffery Gibson of the Bahamas in 48.72. “I was a little bit switched off tonight,” he said. “It was

Great North Catch up with all of Saturday’s Great North City Games action with race videos below. The results can be found here. Mo Farah took the Great North Run title this morning (Sunday) with the fastest half-marathon ever by a Briton, 59:22, although it won’t count as a National

Mo Farah capped another year of dominance by sprinting to victory at the Great North Run this morning, the Briton taking a narrow victory over Kenya’s Stanley Biwott in 59:22, his fastest time for the half marathon. Biwott, who had tried for much of the race to break Farah, was never

500m Victory Mark English was a comfortable victor over the rarely run 500m distance at the great North City Games earlier today in a time of 59.58 seconds. English took on a quality field for his final race of the season, which included world 400m finalist Rabah Yousif as well

Mark English takes on Nijel Amos over 500m at the Great North City Games in an action-packed afternoon of street athletics on Tyneside. The action is live on BBC One from 2pm and you can also watch on the livestream below. 14:05 Men’s long jump 14:12 Men’s 110m hurdles 14:22

As he prepares for his final two races of the season at the Brussels Diamond League tonight, Justin Gatlin, as ever, is keen not to look in the rear-view mirror. His mind has already moved on from the memory of that men’s 100m final in Beijing, in which Gatlin gifted

Gatlin versus Van Niekerk, Men’s 200m, 8:16pm Newly crowned world 400m champion Wayde Van Niekerk takes on double sprint silver medallist Justin Gatlin and after the South African’s 200m personal best of 19.94 earlier this summer – and indeed his 43.48-second run to win in Beijing – there is every

Dr Larry Van Such will attend this coming weekend’s RIP Tool training programme on Sunday 13th September in the Dolmen hotel Carlow at 10am. Dr Van Such has wrote numerous athletic programmes for many of the world’s top athletes. He has worked with many of the most famous football and

Paula Radcliffe has released a statement to deny any wrongdoing in her career following today’s (Tuesday) Culture Media and Sport Committee Hearing regarding the Sunday Times’ allegations concerning blood data. Read the full statement below. Statement Statement of Paula Radcliffe following the Culture Media and Sport Committee Hearing of 8

Ciara Mageean will be targeting Olympic qualification over 1500m when she takes to the track in Rovereto, Italy today (Tuesday). The UCD athlete decided to skip the IAAF World Championships having qualified through the quota system to focus fully on recovering from injury and build up her fitness. In the

Week 2 at IMG seemed slightly less intense as I adjusted (a bit!) to the daily warm up and temperatures (still high 30’s). New things that were incorporated were medicine ball exercises, concentrating on all the power coming from your hips, ladder steps evolving into strides, and strides pulling sleds

Bolt calls it a season Usain Bolt has announced that his 2015 season is over having been due to race in the final Diamond League event of the summer, the Brussels Diamond League. Preparation for the 2016 season is taking priority after retaining his 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay world titles in Beijing

The Good The Hosts Beijing can hold its head just as high and proud as it did seven years ago, when the greatest show on earth came to town and the world was left with a lifetime of good memories of the place. This time it was a smaller task

Britain’s former Olympic discus thrower Lawrence Okoye had a tryout with Super Bowl champions New England Patriots this week as the 23-year-old continues his attempt to make it in the NFL. While their star quarterback Tom Brady tries to shake off the shame of the deflategate scandal, the team are

Mark English will race over 600m at the Flame Games in Amsterdam this evening, the Donegal athlete stepping down to 600m to race some of the world’s best at 7:45pm Irish time. Live stream link is here.  Men’s 600m start list 1 129 EL MANAOUI Amine MAR … 2 130