Athletics

Dwain Chambers

Chambers scorches to championship record

Dwain Chambers clocked a championship record 9.99 seconds to win the men's 100 metres at the European Team Championship in Bergen on Saturday. The sprinter held off the Frenchman, Christophe Lemaître, who finished second in 10.02 seconds, and Italy's Emanuele Di Gregorio, third in 10.20, to help Britain into second place in the competition.

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Dwain Chambers competes in the 60m heats in Doha yesterday

Blistering Chambers tots up points

Sunday, 20 June 2010

Britain's Dwain Chambers produced a stunning performance to win the men's 100m at the European Team Championships in Bergen yesterday.

Britain's Olympic 400m champion, Christine Ohuruogu

Ohuruogu and Meadows to miss GB team event

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu and Jenny Meadows have both been forced out of this weekend's European Team Championships in Bergen because of injuries.

States of mind: Chris Thompson says his girlfriend's coach Mark Rowland 'has added another dimension' in the US. 'I actually would put the word 'genius' with him'

Comeback kid finds himself in the company of legends

Sunday, 13 June 2010

After four years troubled by injury, Thompson runs into the form of his life

Caster Semenya has not run since the World Championships in Berlin last summer

Further confusion surrounds Semenya gender case

Friday, 11 June 2010

The Caster Semenya saga took another peculiar twist yesterday when a press conference that was expected to announce she had been cleared to compete again was cancelled under firm instruction from the IAAF, the sport's world governing body.

'I have attempted to understand and sympathise with the institutional shortcomings of the IAAF,' says Caster Semenya

Semenya news conference cancelled

Thursday, 10 June 2010

South Africa's sports ministry have cancelled a press conference at short notice to announce a decision on women's world 800 metres champion Caster Semenya's possible return to competition.

Semenya to get gender results today

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Caster Semenya is expected to finally learn whether she can resume her athletics career when South Africa's Minister of Sport and Recreation hosts a press conference in Johannesburg today.

Asafa Powell has dominated the 100m this season, he hopes to keep up his good form: 'Everything is going great with the races now and I am expecting to keep improving as the season progresses'

Powell: I will run faster and faster

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Asafa Powell has dominated the 100m so far this season, and the Jamaican sprinter believes he can only go "faster and faster".

Jodie Williams is being allowed to concentrate on her GCSE exams

Williams prepares for testing times as Ennis is given a well-earned break

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

The Great Britain track and field squad will travel to the European Team Championships in Bergen, Norway, next weekend without the two female athletes from these shores who occupy top spots in the 2010 European ranking lists.

Londoner Mo Farah moved up to third in the UK all-time list in Marseilles

Athletics: Champion Farah chases second gold

Monday, 7 June 2010

Whisper it gently, but British men's 10,000m running is on something of a revivalist roll.

Teenage kicks: Jodie Williams is a sprint sensation who is keeping her feet firmly on the ground - 'I think a lot of junior sprinters compete at senior level too quickly'

Schoolgirl sprinter who is in a class of her own

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Jodie Williams is still doing her GCSEs – and breaking records at 100m and 200m

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