Eilish McColgan beat her mother Liz’s Scottish record with victory in the 10,000 metres at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Hengelo on Monday. The 31-year-old defied wind and rain at the Dutch venue to finish ahead of world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia in a time of 30 minutes 19.02 seconds. Liz McColgan, a former world champion and Olympic silver medallist who is now her daughter’s coach, ran the previous Scottish best of 30:57.07 at the same […]

Zharnel Hughes is disqualified after a false start in the Men’s 100m From a grimace to a grin, Trayvon Bromell was resigned to his fate at Saturday’s Diamond League: a false start in the men’s 100m prevented the American from racing in Birmingham. A long-haul flight for a 10-second race and the obsolete one-and-done rule rendered his trip a total waste of time. Shock and disappointment quickly spread around the newly-opened Alexander Stadium, with Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, who suffered […]

Ujah, left, with team-mates Zharnel Hughes, Richard Kilty and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake on the podium in Tokyo (Martin Rickett/PA) Richard Kilty insists “it’s f***ing bulls**t” that Reece Prescod has publicly forgiven CJ Ujah for a failed drugs test to cost Great Britain an Olympic silver medal. Prescod ran in the 100m for Team GB at Tokyo 2020, but was only a reserve for the 4x100m relay team. Prescod revealed that after a recent conversation he is now “cool” with Ujah, who […]

Dina Asher-Smith insists she is just warming up as she plots her world title defence. The world 200m champion held off the challenge of Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson to win the 100m Diamond League race in 11.11 seconds Daryll Neita was third at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham on Saturday. Asher-Smith is gearing up to defend the 200m title she won in Doha three years ago and was happy with how things are going. She said: “I feel like I’ve progressed, […]

Olympic 800 metres silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson was delighted with her switch to the shorter 400m event at the UK Indoor Championships in Birmingham Hodgkinson, who set a new British 800m record at the Indoor Grand Prix last weekend, decided to drop down to 400m to build up speed ahead of the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade next month. After winning her semi-final in 52.45seconds to qualify for Sunday’s semi-final, Hodgkinson said: “At the bell I was fourth and I […]

Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs has furiously denied doping allegations and claimed his gold medal was won with "blood, sweat, tears and injuries." Jacobs, 27, shocked the world in Tokyo last summer when he took the title from America's Fred Kerley by clocking 9.80 seconds. His time represented a new Italian record and the third occasion during the Games where he had broken the 10-second barrier, having only done so once previously. He later notched an historic double by helping […]