Tipperary preview
A high-class mixed card is in store at Tipperary, where the highlight of the jumps action is the Grade Two Friends Of Tipperary Hurdle.
A high-class mixed card is in store at Tipperary, where the highlight of the jumps action is the Grade Two Friends Of Tipperary Hurdle.
Emotional Russian Anna Chicherova banished the pain of an injury-marred season to soar to gold in the women's high jump at the London Olympics.
Deirdre Ryan is out of the women's high jump after failing to clear 1.90 metres as a disappointing Olympics for Ireland's track and field athletes continued.
Katie Taylor has won Olympic lightweight gold. Follow all Irish Olympic progress today.
Shaggy-haired Russian Ivan Ukhov survived losing his competition vest to win gold in the men's high jump final with a leap of 2.38 metres at the London Olympics.
Greece's world indoor high jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis has pulled out of the London Olympics after testing positive for a banned substance, the athlete's father said today.
Which long jumpers will leave the London Games with a medal and which with just a memory depends, of course, on the horizontal distance they cover, Paradoxically, however, vertical velocity determines success more than horizontal velocity.
Former Olympic high jump silver medallist Blanka Vlasic has withdrawn from the London Games after failing to recovery from injury.
Deirdre Ryan: high jump
Derval O'Rourke missed her women's 100m hurdles semi-final while Deirdre Ryan finished sixth in the high jump at the World Track and Field Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
Deirdre Ryan of DSD AC won Friday night's high jump at the Hochsprung meeting in Germany, setting a new Irish record of 1.93m in the process.
Russia's Aleksander Shustov defied heavy rain to win gold in a thrilling high jump competition at the European Championships in Barcelona on Thursday.
A total of 138 hopefuls go forward for the 230th running of the £1.25 million Derby, staged this year at Epsom Downs on Saturday, 6 June.
Athletics Ireland has confirmed that double gold medallist David Gillick will defend his 400m European Indoor title in Italy next month.
Deirdre Ryan set a new national indoor high jump record in Germany.
Belgium's reigning Olympic high jump champion Tia Hellebaut has announced her retirement.
One of jump racing's most familiar faces is aiming to remain in the limelight this week as Jim Lewis' next potential star Breedsbreeze heads to Wincanton on Saturday.
Belgium's Tia Hellebaut won the women's high jump on Saturday, beating Croatia's Blanka Vlasic on countback.
Andrey Silnov of Russia won the men's high jump gold medal at the Olympics on Tuesday.
Paul Nicholls has experienced nearly all the highs jumps racing has to offer, but a bleak afternoon at Cheltenham provided what must be one of his real professional lows.