53 h. ago British breakthroughs and India pride as Delhi hails para athletics worlds a success

Empty seats catch the eye but history-making wins capture the imagination, with 35 world records tumblingThe headline, slightly stuffily, read “heartiest congratulations”. Underneath, an effusive Narendra Modi posted congratulations to his country’s para-athletics team. “A historic performance!”, the Indian prime minister wrote on social media, celebrating a record 22-medal haul for his country at the World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, which ended on Sunday. “I am proud of each and every member and wish them the very best for their future endeavours,” he said. “Hosting the tournament in Delhi has also been an honour for India.”This was India’s first time staging the biggest track-and-field event in disability sport, outside the Paralympic Games, and they made a suitable noise about it. After a last-minute decision that confirmed Delhi as hosts last December, the hope was that the championships might expand awareness of para-sport in India and, in the process, perhaps help ...

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53 h. ago British breakthroughs and India pride amid empty seats and controversy at para athletics worlds

History-making wins capture the imagination despite sparse crowds in Delhi, with 35 world records tumblingThe headline, slightly stuffily, read “heartiest congratulations”. Underneath, an effusive Narendra Modi posted congratulations to his country’s para-athletics team. “A historic performance!” the Indian prime minister wrote on social media, celebrating a record 22-medal haul for his country at the World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, which ended on Sunday. “I am proud of each and every member and wish them the very best for their future endeavours,” he said. “Hosting the tournament in Delhi has also been an honour for India.”This was India’s first time staging the biggest track-and-field event in disability sport, outside the Paralympic Games, and they made a suitable noise about it. After a last-minute decision that confirmed Delhi as host city last December, the hope was that the championships might expand awareness of para-sport in India and, in the process, perhaps h...

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3 d. ago Aled Davies clinches World Championship title after Paralympic heartbreak

The 34-year-old said he has more to give and is targeting the next Paralympics in Los Angeles

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4 d. ago Dan Pembroke completes miraculous recovery to win remarkable World Championship gold

Pembroke claimed an incredible F13 javelin gold in New Delhi despite tearing his hip adductor just four weeks before the event

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5 d. ago Welsh shot put star Funmi Oduwaiye bags bronze at World Para Athletics Championships

Oduwaiye, 22, banked bronze in the F44 event after a personal best of 12.11m with her very first attempt proved enough for a maiden global gong

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6 d. ago Tesco worker Victoria Levitt scorches to stunning debut World Para Athletics Championships gold in New Delhi

The Mansfield athlete soared to a scintillating T44 100m triumph as British teammate and fellow debutant Bebe Jackson bagged bronze

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7 d. ago Tesco worker Victoria Levitt claims shock gold at World Para Athletics Championship

Levitt surged to T44 100m glory in New Delhi but will be returning to Tesco for pre-Christmas work in the coming months

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8 d. ago Scottish teenager Finlay Menzies seals World Championships bronze

The 19-year-old sealed a podium place with a personal best time in New Delhi

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9 d. ago Welsh discus duo Funmi Oduwaiye and Bree Cronin revel in World Championship experience in New Delhi

Cardiff’s Oduwaiye, 22, finished fourth in the F44 event at the World Para Athletics Championships as a throw of 37.91m saw her fall short of the podium by just over a metre

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1 week ago Hannah Cockroft ‘let down’ by lack of competition as she scorches to 17th world title

Cockroft only had to overcome three other athletes as only gold and silver medals were awarded

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1 week ago Olivia Breen's secret weapon to success at World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi

The Welsh para athletics star, 29, was unable to advance through her T38 100m heat on Sunday morning

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1 week ago Hollie Arnold finds ‘magic in the chaos’ with battling World Championship bronze

The 31-year-old Brit returned to the world stage after a mental health break and secured a bronze medal in New Delhi

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1 week ago ‘I’m feeling pretty confident’: powerlifter Kate Evert, 75, is on her way to the world championships

In October, Evert, who works out three times a week, will begin the journey from Missouri to South AfricaIn October, Kate Evert will begin the long journey from the small town of Republic, Missouri, to Cape Town, South Africa, to compete in the World Masters Powerlifting Championships. The competition is for athletes aged 40 and above – Evert is 75.“Seventy-six in November, heaven help me,” she says. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘This is the first time I’ve not thought about the box office’: Dwayne Johnson on wrestling, reinvention and the role that could redefine him

He became cinema’s most bankable strongman. But weary of his own persona, Johnson turned to indie director Benny Safdie – and delivered a bruising new role that rewrites his own rulebookFor much of his career, Dwayne Johnson has been stuck between the Rock and a hard place. In the early years of his transition from body-slamming World Wrestling Entertainment heavy to marquee movie star, he was still being billed under his nom de ring. Even once he retired that moniker, he seemed to be lugging behind him a persona from which he might never be free. There are people-pleasers and then there is this affable brawler-turned-actor, who appears to regard the contentment of the world’s multiplex-goers as his personal responsibility. Whether in vehicles comic (Central Intelligence, Baywatch), family-oriented (Jumanji, Jungle Cruise), four-wheeled (the Fast & Furious series) or disaster-based (San Andreas, Skyscraper), he is a rip-roaring razzle-dazzler, shiny of scalp and tooth, and so co...

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2 w. ago Gulls, golds and Gout Gout: World Athletics Championships 2025 – in pictures

At the conclusion of the 2025 World Athletics Championships, we take a look at some of our favourite images from Tokyo. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Keely Hodgkinson shows true colours as wild night in Tokyo emerges

The Great Britain runner had to settle for a bronze medal in the women's 800 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo after an injury-hit season

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The American sprint king on young emerging rivals including Gout Gout, his advancing years and uncertainty surrounding the sportSprint king Noah Lyles sits smiling and calm after the storm that returned him to the throne in Tokyo, reflective even. He has expressed a desire, having now won four successive 200m world titles, to surpass Usain Bolt’s record with a fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2027.But the American’s mind has wandered even further. “I have a strong blueprint of what I want my last year in the sport to look like,” he says. “I’ve looked pretty far into the future.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Usain Bolt's new life now from model wife to Man Utd dream and surprise health setback

Widely regarded as the greatest sprinter of all time, Usain Bolt has been enjoying retired life since ending his career at the World Athletics Championships eight years ago

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2 w. ago World Athletics Championships: Britain face ‘reset’ after failure to land gold

The British team in Tokyo finished 21st in the medal table with five podium appearances.

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