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Ciara Mageean and Rhasidat Adeleke offer genuine medal hopes in Budapest

Exciting Irish team can deliver medals at Worlds

Saturday marks the start of the World Championships and not only is Ireland sending its largest team to compete, it's arguably the most in-form squad we have ever assembled.

Athletics • 18 Aug 23

Rhasidat Adeleke's most recent Irish 400m record of 49.20 was the fourth fastest time in the world this year

'Phenomenon' Adeleke can medal in Budapest - Coghlan

Eamonn Coghlan believes multiple Irish athletes can make finals at the upcoming World Athletics Championships, with Rhasidat Adeleke a medal prospect in the 400 metres.

Athletics • 19 Aug 23

Mageean (R) with Jessica Hull and Kipyogen in Florence

Mageean has full Faith in 'greatest ever' Kipyegon

Ciara Mageean is getting ready to do battle with the best middle-distance runners on the globe at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this weekend and she's doing it in full belief that all is, thankfully, exactly as it seems in the star-studded 1500m division.

Athletics • 13 Aug 23

Mageean winning in Brussels last September

'Role model' Mageean: Get out and support your girls

Ciara Mageean will head to Budapest shortly as part of the largest Irish team ever sent to the World Athletic Championships – and her message for Irish sports fans is: 'Get out and support your girls!'

Athletics • 10 Aug 23

Chris O'Donnell will compete in the men's 400m as well as the 4x400m mixed relay

O'Donnell set to compete in 400m at World Championships

Chris O'Donnell has been invited to compete in the 400m at the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Budapest, while Nick Griggs and Kate O'Connor have been added to the Ireland team.

Athletics • 06 Aug 23

Boyce 25th in men's 35km race walk in Oregon

Ireland's Brendan Boyce finished 25th in the men's 35km race walk at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.

Athletics • 24 Jul 22

Legend the Bigfoot during the 10,000m final at the World Athletics Championships

Police investigate as mascot Bigfoot's head is stolen

The head of the World Championships' official mascot Legend the Bigfoot has become the subject of a police investigation after it was stolen.

Athletics • 20 Jul 22

Faith Kipyegon celebrates becoming a world champion over 1,500m for the second time

Five Olympic champions double up at World Championships

Experience prevailed on day four of the World Championships with Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon and Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas among the Olympic champions standing on top of the podium in Eugene, Oregon on Tuesday.

Athletics • 19 Jul 22

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce raises her arm aloft after leading home a Jamaican clean sweep in the 100m final

Fraser-Pryce wins a record fifth 100m world title

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce wants to continue to inspire generations of women after a fifth world 100m title.

Athletics • 18 Jul 22

Thomas Barr cut a dejected figure as he left the track at Hayward Field

Barr and Coscoran exit Worlds at semi-finals stage

Thomas Barr and Andrew Coscoran both saw their campaigns at the World Championships in Eugene come to an end at the semi-finals stage, with Barr finishing fifth in his 400m hurdles semi while Coscoran was 12th in his 1500m race.

Athletics • 18 Jul 22

Rhasidat Adeleke and Chris O'Donnell produced good runs in Oregon

Adeleke & O'Donnell make World semi-finals in Oregon

Chris O'Donnell and Rhasidat Adeleke have both progressed to the men's and women's 400m semi-finals respectively at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.

Athletics • 17 Jul 22

"I am willing to take a drug test every single day for the rest of my career for all I care to prove my innocence."

Coleman faces two-year ban for missed drugs test

Reigning world 100 metres champion Christian Coleman has said he may be hit with a suspension which could rule him out from next year's Tokyo Olympics following a violation of anti-doping whereabouts regulations.

Athletics • 17 Jun 20

The city of Eugene in the US state of Oregon will host the next edition

Next World Athletics Championships pushed back to 2022

The World Athletics Championships have been rescheduled for 14-24 July in 2022, narrowly avoiding a clash with the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Athletics • 08 Apr 20

World Athletics ready to shift 2021 champs for Olympics

World Athletics said Monday it was prepared to shift the world championships in 2021 in order to accommodate a potential move of this year's coronavirus-threatened Tokyo Olympic Games.

Athletics • 23 Mar 20

Awesome athletes make testing Worlds one for the ages

Despite the backdrop of another doping scandal, half-empty stadiums and gruelling conditions, the superb individual performances at the World Athletics Championships mark it out as a memorable one, writes David Gillick.

Athletics • 07 Oct 19

Mageean was in elite company in this race

Recap: Mageean finishes tenth in red hot 1,500m final

The County Down runner finished in a personal best of 4:00.15 in Doha with Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands taking gold in a championship record.

Athletics • 05 Oct 19

Katarina Johnson-Thompson upset the odds in Doha

Johnson-Thompson upsets Thiam at World Championships

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson sprung a huge upset to claim a stunning heptathlon gold medal at the World Athletics Championships.

Athletics • 03 Oct 19

Ciara Mageean chases home the impressive Sifan Hassan in Doha

Mageean makes final of 1500m at World Championships

Ireland's Ciara Mageean has become the second Irish woman in history to reach final of the 1500 metres at the World Athletics Championships, emulating a feat last achieved by Sonia O'Sullivan in Athens in 1997.

Athletics • 05 Oct 19

Noah Lyles (C) of the USA crosses the finish line to win the men's 200m final

Fields of gold for USA at World Championships

American Noah Lyles shot to 200 metres world championship gold on Tuesday, providing a bright finish to a day darkened by yet another doping scandal.

Athletics • 01 Oct 19

Healy suffered a broken foot early in 2019

Healy fails to progress from 200m heats in Doha

She finished fifth of six competitors in the first heat in Doha in a time of 23.56, well outside her season's best of 23.04.

Athletics • 30 Sep 19

Christian Coleman reflects on his 100m triumph

Coleman beats Gatlin to secure 100m gold medal in Doha

Christian Coleman claimed the 100 metres world championship gold medal, taking the title of the world's fastest man from his United States team mate Justin Gatlin.

Athletics • 28 Sep 19

Thomas Barr is not taking any risks ahead of World Athletics Championships

No national title defence for Barr due to calf injury

Thomas Barr will relinquish his national 400-metre hurdles title for the first time in eight years as he has withdrawn due to a calf injury.

Athletics • 27 Jul 19

Thomas Barr with 8-year-olds Roisin Woods and Patrick Ryan at the Irish Life annoucement

Barr looking at the sunny side from the great indoors

The Waterford hurdler made an Olympic final in 2016 and won bronze at the 2018 European Championships so he has big aims for 2019.

Athletics • 22 Jan 19

The European Athletics Championships are set for Berlin in 2018 and Heffernan hasn't ruled out competing

Heffernan has not made a decision on retirement

Irish athlete Rob Heffernan has said he has not made any decision on retirement after it was widely speculated that his eighth place finish in the 50km walk at the World Athletics Championships would be his final race.

Athletics • 15 Aug 17

Reigning Olympic champion Caster Semenya was too good for the 800m final field on Sunday night

Caster Semenya excels in 800m final

Caster Semenya claimed another global title when she won the world 800 metres gold while seemingly barely taking a breath on Sunday, biding her time before surging clear to record the fastest time in the world this year.

Athletics • 13 Aug 17