Wami seals Greath North run victory

Ethiopia's Gete Wami claimed a thrilling victory as Britain's Jo Pavey finished in third place

Women show the way at Great North Run

No British man has won the Great North Run since Steve Kenyon in 1985, and the long wait is unlikely to end today

Radcliffe targets New York return

The British marathon runner says she is determined to put the nightmare of the Beijing Olympic Games behind her

Radcliffe targets third New York marathon title

The 34-year-old will defend her title in New York, as she looks to put the disappointment of the Beijing Olympics behind her

Radcliffe may make remarkable return

Marathon world record-holder likely to reappear in New York, only 11 weeks after she ran 'on one leg' in Beijing Games

Gebrselassie sets the pace in marathon

The 35-year-old Ethiopian 'Emperor' continues to set the standard by breaking his nineteenth world record in Berlin

Australia fail to lure Britain coach

Team GB see off Australian advances directed at Shane Sutton, British Cycling head coach, as post mortem begins down under

Oligarchs paying to rebuild Russian athletics

Britain’s hopes of further medal gains in the 2012 Olympics may be scuppered by a multibillion-rouble funding programme

Van Commenee returns to UK Athletics

Dutchman with a reputation for being a hard taskmaster is appointed head coach in the run-up to 2012 Olympics in London

Ruthless Van Commenee to take control

New UK Athletics head coach has plenty of work to do if gold medals are to be won at the London Olympics in 2012

Weir speeds to second Paralympic gold

The Surrey athlete avoided trouble to take victory in the crash-affected wheelchair 1,500 metres at the Bird's Nest

Britain's paralympic gold rush ends

China have nearly doubled Britain's tally with 80 golds after another two medal hopes fail to live up to their promise

Chin caught in classification chaos

Britain's teenage discus thrower is stripped of her Paralympic Games silver medal after being disqualified and declassified

Ohuruogu takes defeat in her stride

Britain's 400m Olympic champion is beaten by her US rival Sanya Richards in Stuttgart, but knows that timing is everything

Mason puts Jamaican success down to hard work

Olympic winner says a tough regime helped him win the silver medal

Paupers who became sprint kings

An unkempt track club in Kingston holds secret to Jamaica's emergence as an athletics dynasty

Bolt and the making of an Olympic champion

The sprint sensation before the world records and medals

Bolt unfazed by his new ambassadorial role

Jamaican Government wastes no time putting Olympic sprint double champion at heart of drive to promote island

Pistorius wins 100 metres title

The South African sprinter edged a thrilling race on a day that brought five further cycling gold medals for Great Britain

Bolt the hero relishes long walk home

Fastest man on earth brought to a halt by crowds of wellwishers after glorious return from Beijing to his native Jamaica