Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay secured a breakthrough global victory in the women’s 5000 metres at the World Athletics Championships on a day when three Olympic champions also topped the podium and Canada’s men’s 4x100m relay team beat the hosts to gold.

Tokyo 2020 decathlon champion Damian Warner is contemplating a second day of competition that will take place without him at the World Athletics Championships after suffering a hamstring injury during the final event of day one.

Two home hopefuls crashed out in the women's 100 metres hurdles in the opening session of the penultimate day at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Decathlon Olympic champion Damian Warner has rounded off a successful 2021 by being named the winner of Canada's Athlete of the Year yesterday, months after posting one of the best scores in the event.

A 10-athlete shortlist for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award has been announced - headlined by Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser, who both set new world records in 2021.

Katie Nageotte of the United States earned gold here as the women’s pole vault took a final twist away from the athlete who seemed destined to win it, world champion Anzhelika Sidorova of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team.

Andre De Grasse held off three United States sprinters, including world champion Noah Lyles, to become the first Canadian winner of the men's Olympic 200 metres title since Percy Williams in 1928.

Damian Warner recorded the fourth-highest decathlon points total of all time as he claimed a dominant victory at the World Athletics Combined Events Challenge in Götzis.

Damian Warner has a commanding overnight lead at the annual World Athletics Combined Events Challenge meeting in Gotzis after a day in which he set a Canadian long jump record and world decathlon best of 8.28 metres.

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Damian Warner of Canada converted their overnight leads into victories at the Götzis Hypo-Meeting in Austria.

Olympic bronze medallist Damian Warner of Canada broke his own 100 metres decathlon world record as he finished the opening day at the Götzis Hypo-Meeting in Austria in pole position.

Decathlete Damian Warner and sprinter Andre De Grasse are among the headline names on the Canadian athletics squad for this year's Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

Canada’s Damian Warner broke the Pan American Games and Canadian decathlon records to win Toronto 2015 gold here tonight, while the several Olympic medallists where also secured podium positions on a night of hgh-quality athletics action.