Chinese teenager Pan Zhanle broke the men's 100m freestyle world record with a time of 46.80sec at the world championships in Doha on Sunday. Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle. Photo from Pan's fanpage's ...

As well as winning the 400m, Burke grabbed gold in the 100m. Not bad for someone in a tight vest and long baggy shorts. For the very first official 100m world record, please step forward Mr Lippincott ...

Noah Lyles gave a brilliant response when he was asked whether he could break Usain Bolt's world record. Back in the summer, ...

Some men's and women's world records have stood since the 1980s ... Florence Griffith-Joyner set the women's 100m record in 1988 at the US trials in Indianapolis. Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah ...

“It is the one I was dreaming of. The long jump is my love, but the 100m is my biggest challenge so I really wanted this one,” Jong said. Two new world records were set at Stade de France on Friday.

grateful to be celebrating my 25th birthday like this," McLaughlin-Levrone said after her record-breaking moment. "Just a super opportunity, you can’t even imagine." In a photo finish now seared into ...

women's 100m hurdles and men's 800m; and qualifying in men's pole vault and women's discus; and more. Two-time defending Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic topped group A with 63.75m, while American ...