World Athletics Championships

Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake have apologised after being accused of disrepecting the Jamaican anthem at the World Athletics Championships

Oscar Pistorius has stormed out of a BBC interview after he being asked if he was an "inconvenient embarrassment" to athletics.

Usain Bolt led Jamaica to 4x100 metres relay glory in a world-record time as the USA and Great Britain failed to finish after a collision.

Mo Farah became Britain's first 5,000 metres world champion with a sensational victory in Daegu.

Maria Savinova overhauled Caster Semenya on the home straight to win the women's 800 metres gold.

American Christian Taylor stunned defending champion Phillips Idowu with a world leading leap of 17.96 metres to win triple jump gold.

Women's round-up: Sally Pearson ran the fastest time of the year for the third race in a row to win a first Daegu gold for Australia.

Jamaican Usain Bolt blazed to the 200 metres title at the world championships in Daegu in 19.40 seconds.

London and Doha will go head-to-head to host the 2017 world athletics championships, IAAF chief Lamine Diack said on Sunday.

David Webb propelled himself into Olympic marathon contention by bagging the London 2012 A-standard in finishing 15th in Daegu.

Abel Kirui of Kenya defended his men's marathon title at the world championships in Daegu.

Men's round-up: Asbel Kiprop outsprinted compatriot Silas Kiplagat to win a first world championships 1,500 metres gold for Kenya.

Russian Anna Chicherova finally clinched the women's high jump gold medal on a countback from Blanka Vlasic in Daegu.

German Matthias de Zordo "hit it hard" on the first attempt to condemn Norway's defending champion Andreas Thorkildsen to javelin silver.

Russian Sergey Bakulin took gold in the men's 50 kilometres race walk at the world championships, covering the distance in 3:41.24.