Scotland’s Shelby Watson set a world record time on her way to winning the women’s 400 metres T33 event

She trains six days a week, works really hard, and is now getting her rewards for all the effort she

To be honest, she has recorded even better times than she did today at previous events, but she only

There was further success for Scotland as Gavin Drysdale, current record holder in all of the RR3 class

16, produced two outstanding performances in the SM7 individual medley, improving her own British record

final after overcoming England and Scotland respectively in the semi-finals.Sergei Materukhin scored all

It was all smiles in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month when International Olympic Committee (IOC) President

"In sport all people are people are equal, all ethnic groups and all religions are equal, a signal that

South Sudan needs in difficult times.”South Sudan has been ravaged by civil war but National Olympic

Olympics should ensure that the the Opening Ceremony in Rio de Janeiro a year from now will feature a record

Brazil’s first formal Olympic team made it to Antwerp in 1920 and came away five medals thanks to their

military pistol.In the 1920s, the footballers of Uruguay were a revelation and won back-to-back gold medals

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) have claimed they will need over KSh542 million (£3.5 million/$5.4 million/€4.9 million) to send their team to next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

erring towards selecting São Paulo as their base for the event.Keino is hoping Kenya can better their record

four silvers and four bronzes after the country endured a tough time at London 2012.There they won 11 medals

metres at London 2012 ©Getty Images“I’m sure we are ready to prepare the Kenyan team,” Keino, a two-times

“The money required to prepare the team starting now to all the federations preparing to qualify.

“We need to sit down will all federations and tell them of the need for them to qualify.

Australia scooped the first two of five swimming gold medals to be awarded at the International Swimming

touched home in 52.52sec, which proved enough to hold off newly-crowned 100m butterfly champion and world record

victory ahead of Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki and Russia’s Evgeny Rylov, who completed the podium with times

after a thrilling finish.Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen, China’s Jinglin Shi and Spain’s Jessica Vall all

posted a time of 2:22.76, meaning all three swimmers shared the final place on the podium.Following

was soon smoothed away by an official brush, remains to this day in the form of a world triple jump record

would have to wait another four years, until Sydney, to put that right…The next five best marks of all-time

meetings this year, and Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo, who has managed 18.06m and 18.08m this season, have all

in recent times, having managed 18.08m so far this season ©Getty ImagesEdwards' third jump, accompanied

ImagesBy the time Edwards set off on his first run-up in the final, he had already cleared 18m four times

, wind assistance didn’t prevent gold medals being awarded - there was still an intense scrutiny of

At times it’s been like watching London 2012 all over again. Well almost.

’s heptathlon and men’s long jump respectively before Farah’s 10,000m success made it a dozen gold medals

Botswana’s Nijel Amos in the men’s 800m.Rudisha, returning to the track where he broke the world record

prelude to what should be an intriguing nine days of competition in Beijing.Bolt’s two season best times

tennis finals here on a day in which Canada opened track and field athletics competition with four gold medals

still blessed with quality at these Games as was shown this morning by some blistering 100 metres heat times

which included a Games record 10.92sec for US contender Barbara Pierre.But it was Canada, a less heralded

after O'Dayne Richards shot putted a superb 21.69 metres to break Pan American Games and national record

US throw away gold to gift Canada stunning Toronto 2015 baseball titleJuly 2015: Pereira breaks all-time

Pan American Games medals record on day of Brazilian and American successJuly 2015: Alvarez runs

Canada made history this evening at Toronto 2015 with a first ever Pan American Games basketball gold as their women recovered from an early deficit to dispatch the United States 81-73 in an electric atmosphere generated by a sellout crowd.

A couple of times I was down, but I kept thinking 'I can do this, I just need one more touch, okay, I

by virtue of victories in the clubs and ribbon events to add to her earlier ball, hoop and all-round

 Canadian artistic gymnast Ellie Black and Brazilian swimmer Thiaga Pereira, who has won a record

23 all-time Pan American Games medals, have each also enjoyed five podium finishes here, but with a

Pan American Games medals record on day of Brazilian and American successJuly 2015: Alvarez runs

victory today at Toronto 2015 on a night where Brazil's Thiago Pereira equalled - and then broke - the all-time

record for medals at the Pan American Games.

Marques, the London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, led throughout the day-long competition, made all the

at Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004 and London 2012.She equalled the qualification world record mark of 74

and Zach Rey in their respective under 74, under 97 and under 125kg events, along with three in Games record

times in the pool.Teenager Sierra Schmidt claimed the 800m freestyle in 8:27.54 and Caitlin Leverenz

table.They have now won 50 gold medals and a total of 135. 

Mijaín López became only the third wrestler in history to win four Pan American Games gold medals after

CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House as they scooped four of the five swimming gold medals

times of 52.04sec and 57.24 to win gold in the men's and women's 100m butterfly events.The quartet of

4x200m freestyle relay in 7:54.32.Their success in the evening saw the US close on Canada's lead in the medals

table but the hosts had enjoyed a superb first day of track cycling in which they secured the two gold medals

cycling ©AFP/Getty Images“We wouldn’t have had a good chance at winning if not for the Velodrome and all

Barcelona has been celebrating the 60th anniversary of the event which launched Juan Antonio Samaranch on the road to the very top of Olympic sport. Samaranch had a leading role in organising the 1955 Mediterranean Games, the first great international sporting event to be held in the Montjuich Stadium.

In all, 10 nations took part.

At one stage he was 30 yards ahead of the field and set a Games record.

Italy’s 1948 Olympic champion Adolfo Consolini shattered the discus record three times on the way to

medal.In gymnastics Joaquin Blume gave the home crowd something to shout about with six individual gold medals

All no doubt reported back in glowing terms.

I still vividly remember the moment I was offered a job at insidethegames when managing director Sarah Bowron called me from a place then unbeknown to me; Baku. 

chief sports correspondent Owen Gibson from the Games over his coverage of Azerbaijan’s human rights record

pretty strong at venues where home athletes have been competing, the site of empty seats has been all

A total of 18 gold medals for Russia across the five gymnastics disciplines is a particularly striking

Inevitably Russia will still be right up there and most likely at the top of the pile, but with 69 medals

aspire to in the long term.The European Team Championships Third League may have been dramatic at times

Italy's Martina Caironi continued her recent form as she broke the T42 200 metres record for the third

achieved that today,” Hayes said“Time isn’t important for me at this stage as I work towards Doha so all

competition is working well in terms of preparation.”Evgenii Shvetcov of Russia also produced a world record

Anrune Liebenberg and Union Sekailwe after they won the women’s T47 and T38 events having posted times

after setting a time of 17:58.25.On the final day of the three-day Grand Prix, Germany earned more medals

on home soil at IPC Athletics Grand PrixJune 2015: Jorgensen breaks long jump world record for

No sooner had Jade Jones won her taekwondo gold at the European Games last night than she was reflecting upon her growing collection of significant victories – and looking hungrily ahead to the two remaining boxes she needed to tick (world, European) in order to consider herself a “legend of the sport”.

All day long at the Baku Crystal Hall, Britain’s Olympic champion showed a tenacity that had been renewed

– then she is going to end up with an extraordinary collection of medals.

that people could see quite clearly he was the best of his time – whether he converted that into gold medals

other things, the 17 world records he set.In 1965 he undertook a 44-day European tour, competing 18 times

he took part, and how painstakingly he worked on any potential weaknesses, it was a strange and at times

The 30-strong Australian Dolphins Swim Team for the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships in Glasgow has been announced.

Jacqui Freney and Brenden Hall headline the team to compete in Glasgow from July 13 to 19, with them all

recording times in their respective events that would have seen them ranked number one in the world

Despite initially deciding her career was complete after winning four gold medals at London 2012, Cole

years ago, as well as in Durban and Eindhoven, produced the swim of the meet, when he set a world record

“We know that we are taking athletes to Glasgow who are going to be in the finals and vying for medals