More than 10,000 people gathered on the streets of London today as the fourth edition of The Big Half run took place, marking something of a return for mass-participation sporting events in Britain.

introduced which saw participants provided with very specific timings for arrival, staggered start times

distributed to inform competitors of the best practice to avoid unnecessary contact.Touch points, such as medals

continued a breakthrough year by winning the men’s race in 62min 6secs, while Charlotte Purdue sealed a record

third win as she set a new women’s course record of 69:51.The race began at London's Tower Bridge ©The

It’s that feeling of togetherness that we’ve all really missed."

Britain has selected its highest-ever percentage of female athletes for a Summer Paralympics after confirming its 227-strong squad for the Games here in Tokyo.

per cent more than at Rio 2016.Dame Sarah Storey - who has won 14 gold, eight silver and three bronze medals

Britain’s most successful female Paralympian and will be competing at her eighth Games, equalling the record

highest representation of female athletes ever at a Summer Paralympic Games, a milestone we should all

in 15 Paralympic sports.The nation placed second in the overall medal table, winning 147 medals, of

collective resilience and dedication to continue preparing for the Games during these unprecedented times

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Ice Hockey Women's World Championship will get underway tomorrow, with the preliminary stage of the tournament taking place behind closed doors.

be able to welcome fans to WinSport Arena in Calgary, our priority focus is the health and safety of all

involved, allowing the best women’s hockey players in the world to compete and ensuring we can present medals

It all begins. #WomensWorlds10 Teams. One Championship. All fighting to be the best.Are you ready?

their status as favourites for Olympic gold at Beijing 2022.The US could draw level with Canada as record

10-times winners of the event.Canada last triumphed at the World Championships in 2012 and have since

The line-ups for tomorrow’s medal races at the World Rowing Junior Championships were confirmed after semi-finals in six categories in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv today.

Wergeland and Einar Bjorvik of Norway and Christos Margaritoglou and Apostolos Lykomitros from Greece all

recorded slower times than the top three of the first race, but Samuel Arque and Martin Bauer of France

and Martin O’Grady of Ireland and Andreas Athanasiadis Kaoudis and Konstantinos Christou of Greece all

six-pair final.In the men’s single sculls, Isaiah Harrison of the United States was the only rower to record

finals, before A finals are held across 14 categories to decide the World Rowing Junior Championships medals

Neeraj Chopra tonight became the first Indian to win an Olympic athletics title - and only the second Indian athlete after shooter Abhinav Bindra to win an individual gold.

list behind the 98.48m world record thrown by Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic in 1996 and earlier

84.62m.The International Olympic Committee credits Norman Pritchard’s 200m and 200m hurdles silver medals

It's a good surface for all the runners, for all the nice world records and Olympic records on the track

favourite for the men’s javelin may have flown off course, the favourite for the women’s high jump, three-times

There must be nerves.Australia's Nicola McDermott set an Oceania record of 2.02 metres to win silver

Russians Vlada Chigireva, Marina Goliadkina, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Polina Komar, Aleksandra Patskevich, Svetlana Romashina, Alla Shishkina and Maria Shurochkina won gold in the team discipline of the artistic swimming competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

 The former has now won gold medals at four successive Olympics, including three successive duet

 She is now a seven-times gold medallist, becoming the most successful artistic swimmer in Olympic

swimmer was 21-year-old Polina Komar, who made her national debut in 2017.Komar continued her unblemished record

on the highest stage on her first appearance at the Olympics, having already earned five gold medals

at Shanghai 2011, Barcelona 2013 and Kazan 2015, also triumphing in the free routine combination at all

When Armand Duplantis, Katerina Stefanidi and their rivals go for Olympic gold in Tokyo this week, they will be vaulting on the shoulders of giants. A remarkable succession of these early champions came from the same friendly English market town that spawned comedian Stan Laurel.

all came from one small town, Ulverstone, in the north of England."

"It was at Whitehaven in August of 1886 that he created a sensation by jumping 11ft 5 ¼in - another record

Whitehaven again provided another record [in 1887], when Ray cleared 11ft 6⅝in, undoubtedly the highest

Woodburn was the "father" of the sport, since he "awoke the public to the spectacle", won countless medals

This operation was repeated four or five times.

It was, is, will be a classic water cooler discussion point: can you, should you, share sporting success? Can an Olympic title, for instance, properly be shared, as it was, is and will be in the Tokyo 2020 Games men’s high jump?

athlete himself.He asked: "I appreciate that it suited both men but isn’t competition what sport is all

is contested at the Rio 2016 Olympics ©Getty Images"He finished as joint winner with Japan’s indoor record-holder

Games making a third attempt at 2.41m in the Monaco Diamond League meeting, having raised his Italian record

marathon, in which Dorando Pietri of Italy came so famously close to winning before collapsing several times

holding jump-offs for first and third places and, in an unusual decision, two gold and three bronze medals

In one of the most beautiful of sporting moments, two men decided to share an Olympic title here tonight.

But we are here today sharing this moment and all the sacrifices."

 "I dreamed of this so many times."

a high after winning that year’s World Indoor and European Championships and improved his national record

the Games.Barshim - whose best of 2.43m, set in 2014, has been bettered only by the Cuban whose world record

holding jump-offs for first and third places and, in an unusual decision, two gold and three bronze medals

Emma McKeon continued their superb Olympic Games in the swimming pool as both bagged two more gold medals

Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz and Matt Biondi as United States swimmers who have topped the podium five times

It's very surreal, I'm trying to take it all in."

All of Tokyo 2020, the Rings, and being on the podium."

It's all over now.

I never thought I'd win two gold medals in one session," McKeon said."

A total of 16 athletes - seven women and nine men - are set to represent Canada at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in athletics, with half of the team set to make their debut at the Games.

Ouellet, Austin Smeenk and Liam Stanley, and long jumper Amy Watt.Foessel is the women's discus F38 world record

 "It's really gratifying to see that the hard work I, my coaches, and all the other people supporting

It's been a difficult couple of years, but the goal that all athletes work towards is finally here,"

 "I will do my best to have our national anthem playing as many times as possible."

Canada earned eight of its 29 medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics in athletics, including three golds.Stanley

Olga Nikitina, Sofia Pozdniakova, Sofya Velikaya and Svetlana Sheveleva (reserve) earned gold in the women’s sabre team fencing event at Tokyo 2020.

and clinched gold at the event at Catania 2011 and Moscow 2015.Velikaya finished on the podium six times

the World Championships in the individual sabre event, which goes alongside three consecutive silver medals

Championships in individual sabre to go with her team gold from the following year, and her exemplary record

has continued in both sabre events in Tokyo.Sofia Pozdniakova won two gold medals at Tokyo 2020, her

international debut in 2016.Sheveleva also featured in the team of four as a reserve, but the three bouts were all

10,000 metres, here tonight after outsmarting the two fancied Ugandan runners, world champion and world record

clocking of 26:33.93 in Ostrava on May 19 makes him the fastest this year and puts him seventh on the all-time

I was not worried at all even though they (Ugandans) were winners before and even though they were really

this Olympics like my previous colleagues who participated in many Olympics and achieved a lot of gold medals

But I'm happy, we have two medals."Maybe next time someone else will sacrifice themselves for me."

of 3m 10.44s.Earlier in the day, the women's 100m heats produced a series of super-fast times that promise

Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women’s 200 metres breaststroke title in a world record to secure the first

these Games for South Africa on a day when Emma McKeown added Australia’s sixth gold with an Olympic record

King of the United States, who won bronze in the 100m breaststroke here in defending her title, did all

first or last in that race I would have been able to walk out with such peace, knowing I gave it my all

second in the women's 200m freestyle, has now also become the first Hong Kong swimmer to win two Olympic medals

career for Hungary’s László Cseh.The 35-year-old from Budapest, the winner the first of six Olympic medals

The times at this meet, and in an Olympic final almost go out the window for me."

Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz became the first Olympic gold medallist for the Philippines when she made a dramatic final lift at the Tokyo International Forum.

kilogram category in sensational style, making her final attempt to defeat the Chinese favourite and world record

old 53kg weight class in Rio.She found the qualifying process extremely tough but Diaz knew, through all

her hard work, there was one target above all others."

attempt at 126kg, but Diaz outdid her with that last lift.She is the first Filipina athlete to win medals

hair to lose a few more grams before weighing in at the 2015 IWF World Championships.She struggled at times