Usain Bolt won a third successive Olympic 200m gold on Thursday to keep alive his hopes of an unprecendented “triple triple” in Rio. The victory in his favoured event was Bolt’s 13th individual world or Olympic sprint title from a possible 14 since he took athletics by storm at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The 29-year
Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller dived across the finish line to snatch gold away from Allyson Felix in the women’s 400 metres at Rio 2016. Miller flung herself to gold in 49.44 seconds, with world champion Felix pushed into silver in 49.51s. Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson won bronze in 49.85s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I_hpQ92c94 Felix appeared set to land a fifth
Usain Bolt roared into Olympic history here Sunday, capturing an unprecedented third consecutive 100m crown to confirm his place in the pantheon of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen. The 29-year-old Jamaican legend, competing in his final Olympics, powered over the line in 9.81sec, vanquishing drug-tainted American rival Justin Gatlin who took silver
Win or lose, Usain Bolt was always going to dominate the Olympic headlines on Sunday, but Wayde van Niekerk offered his embattled sport some hope for the future beyond the Jamaican’s retirement with a stunning world record on the Rio track. Twenty minutes before Bolt won his third successive 100 metres title, the South African
It was the quickest time in which a human has hurtled himself around the entire circumference of an athletics track, and the incredible Wayde van Niekerk was humble in victory, as always. Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record had finally been eclipsed and Van Niekerk had done it from lane eight. That too was a record.
British distance runner Mo Farah recovered from a dramatic fall to defend his 10 000m title on Saturday as Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson ended the Olympic reign of compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to claim 100m gold. The 33-year-old Briton brought the Olympic Stadium crowd roaring to its feet after conjuring a trademark surge down the home straight
Britain’s Mo Farah overcame a dramatic mid-race fall on Saturday to take a second straight Olympic 10 000m title and extend his remarkable record at global championships. The 33-year-old produced a trademark surge over the last 100 metres to time 27min 05.17sec in the 25-lap race. Kenyan Paul Tanui won silver in 27:05.64 with Ethiopian
Usain Bolt began his bid for a seventh gold medal in style after the Jamaican won his 100m heat in a time of 10.07 seconds. All eyes were on the reigning 100m and 200m Olympic champion, and the fastest man in the world duly delivered, cruising through the penultimate heat at Rio’s Olympic Stadium. The
Iranian Sohrab Moradi topped the podium in the men’s 94kg category on Saturday to claim Iran’s second weightlifting gold medal of the Rio Games. Moradi, who previously served a two-year ban after testing positive for methadone, dominated the event with a combined total of 403kg. Vadzim Straltsou of Belarus claimed silver on 395 while Lithuania’s
Kianoush Rostami broke his own world record to win gold in the men’s 85kg weightlifting at the Rio Olympics on Friday and clinch Iran’s first medal of the Games, before promising it would not be the last. Rostami, 25, a bronze medallist in the same category in London four years ago, made 217kg with his
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