track and field

Longtime San Diegan Lex Gillette has added another Paralympic medal to his collection: A silver medal – his fifth straight – in the Men’s T11 Long Jump.

The 25-year-old sold the medal, which was her first Olympic medal, for $125,000 to help raise money for the surgery needed for the Polish boy.

The Olympics are the home of miracles. When it comes to Olympic upsets, the United States’ 1980 “Miracle on Ice” against the Soviet Union tops the list. A team of mostly amateur players taking down the four-time defending gold medalists encapsulates what can captivate the world during the globe’s biggest sporting event. The Summer Olympics have played host to some…

Team USA hit the ground running and never looked back at the Tokyo Olympics. Over the nine days of exciting track and field action, Team USA won 26 medals: seven gold, 12 silver and seven bronze. Here are the highlights from a historic Olympic games for the U.S track and field team: Allyson Felix became USA Track and Field’s most…

See videos of the best Olympic moments from Tokyo, like Simone Biles’ beam, Sydney McLaughlin’s 400m and more.

The U.S. men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams both won gold after the men’s 4x100m team failed to advance. Here’s how they did it.

In an Olympics full of fun celebrations, India’s Neeraj Chopra stole the spotlight Saturday night in Tokyo when he tossed his javelin into the sky and looked away before seeing how far his throw went. Chopra didn’t need to see his javelin land before extending his arms into the air in a moment of elation. He knew the toss,...

It came down to the final track event of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the American men finally emerged with gold. Team USA cruised to victory in the men’s 4x400m relay, immediately following up the U.S. women’s gold in the same event. Michael Cherry, Michael Norman, Bryce Deadmon and Rai Benjamin, the bronze medalist in the men’s 400m hurdles,...

Allyson Felix now stands alone in American track and field history. The 35-year-old sprinter ended her Olympic career with gold in the women’s 4x400m relay at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday. The medal was her 11th all time, breaking a tie with Carl Lewis for the most of any American track and field athlete. Felix ran the second leg...

Cole Hocker beat the previous Olympic record in the men’s 1500m on Saturday. And finished in sixth place. The 20-year-old American was part of a crazy final at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium that featured six runners shattering the previous Olympics mark to beat. Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen took home gold with a 3:28.32 mark, beating Kenyan Abel Kipsang’s Olympic record (3:31.65)...

Some get a gold watch when retiring. Allyson Felix got one final gold medal. In what was the final race of her legendary Olympic career, Felix and the U.S. women’s 4x400m relay team of Sydney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Athing Mu ran to gold on Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics. The quartet won in a time of 3:16.85, finishing...

Allyson Felix won her 11th medal at the Tokyo Olympics, making her the most decorated American Olympian in track and field history,

Sifan Hassan may not hold the world record in the women’s 10,000m, but she now has the gold medal. Hassan in June set the 10,000m world record only to have it topped by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey. The two were leading the pack for a majority of the 10,000m final at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, until Hassan pulled away...

Historians will note that the winners of race walking gold at the Tokyo Olympics were Antonella Palmisano of Italy (women’s 20km), Massimo Stano of Italy (men’s 20km) and Dawid Tomala of Poland (men’s 50km). But the competitors and others on hand will also remember the judges, the sticklers who stepped into the races to flash yellow warning paddles at...

Molly Seidel won bronze in the women’s marathon in only the third competitive marathon she’d ever run.

Jamaica has consistently swept Olympic sprinting events. President of the island’s Track and Field Coaches Association tells us why and how.

The Tokyo Olympics are wrapping up — but not before some more gold medals are earned. Here’s a look at 5 events to watch at the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 7, 2021.

Olympic track and field legend Michael Johnson has joined the chorus railing against the United States’ botched exchange during the men’s 4x100m relay heat in Tokyo. The four-man team — comprised of Fred Kerley, Ronnie Baker Trayvon Bromell and Cravon Gillespie — drew quick criticism Wednesday night from track and field great Carl Lewis who called the debacle a “total…

Italy ended Jamaica’s consecutive streak of 4x100m final victories at the Olympics with a first-place finish in Tokyo.

Team USA’s Allyson Felix became the most decorated female Olympian in track and field history at age 35. More on her result and Tokyo Olympics journey.

American Paul Chelimo took home the bronze medal in the men’s 5000m at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday morning.

It was another busy day at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo for the United States, filled with medal-winning performances at the track and field events.  The United States had three more medals added to its total, while another team advanced to its final, giving the U.S. another shot at a medal. Here is everything that happened in track and...

While his dream of becoming a U.S. citizen has yet to be realized. But a DACA recipient’s dream of becoming an Olympian has come true.

The U.S. men who didn’t advance in the 4x100m relay know they didn’t meet expectations.

Katie Nageotte vaulted herself to gold. The 30-year-old Cleveland native cleared 4.90 meters (16 feet, 0.91 inches) on her second attempt in women’s pole vault to win the gold medal for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. It was the third time the U.S. has won gold in the event. Ranked No. 4 in the world, Nageotte…

Athing Mu won gold and made history in the women’s 800m at Tokyo. Here is all you need to know about the Olympic champion.

Grant Holloway finished second in men’s 110m hurdles, while Team USA advanced in the women’s 4×100.

While track athletes are sprinting for gold at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, other competitors will be walking to the finish line. Among the 48 track and field events, there are three race walks included in the Olympic program: men’s 20km, women’s 20km and men’s 50km. The 50km is the longest track and field event at the Olympics, and the Tokyo...

17-year-old Erriyon Knighton just missed out on becoming the youngest man to win a medal since 1976.

Canada’s Andre de Grasse won the gold medal in the men’s 200m final Wednesday.

After winning the 2019 world championship in the heptathlon, British athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson had sights set on gold in Tokyo. The gold won’t come this summer for Johnson-Thompson after she suffered an apparent Achilles injury during the 200m portion of the heptathlon, falling to the ground in agony midway through the race. Johnson-Thompson ruptured her Achilles at the end of…

American Courtney Frerichs won sliver in the women’s steeplechase Wednesday morning.

Canada’s Andre De Grasse won the gold medal in the men’s 200m final, while Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles won silver and bronze.

Anna Cockrell was disqualified from the women’s 400m hurdles finals Tuesday night after a lane violation.

Jamaica knows a thing or two about producing the world’s fastest athletes. Usain Bolt is the first name to come to mind, but Elaine Thompson-Herah is continuing her dominance in the first Olympics without Bolt since 2000. Thompson-Herah arrived at the 2016 Rio Olympics and won gold at the women’s 100m and 200m finals, the first Jamaican woman to do…

The mother of Olympic shot put star Raven Saunders died Tuesday, just days after the South Carolina native won her first Olympic medal at the Tokyo Games. Clarissa Saunders died in Orlando, Florida, where she was attending watch parties for family members of Team USA, Raven’s longtime coach, Herbert Johnson, announced in a Facebook post. Raven finished second in...

Sydney McLaughlin beat Dalilah Muhammad and won gold in a highly anticipated women’s 400m hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics.

For the second consecutive Olympics, Americans Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs finished first and second respectively in the men’s shot put event.  New Zealand’s Tom Walsh won bronze, which he also took in 2016, making it a repeat across the board on the winner’s podium. It is the first time that has happened in a track and field event in...

Athing Mu took home an historic medal for the U.S. in the women’s 800m final.

Erriyon Knighton became the youngest Olympian to make the men’s 200m final since 1984.

The men’s 110 hurdles semifinals will feature three Americans vying for gold at the Tokyo Olympics.

Two 18-year-old Namibian runners have thrown track and field’s contentious testosterone issue back into the Olympic spotlight by blazing into the women’s 200-meter final in Tokyo

Athing Mu and Gabby Thomas will attempt to win gold on Day 5 of track and field action in Tokyo.

Georgian shot putter Benik Abramyan has been provisionally suspended after failing a doping test for steroids.

Norwegian Karsten Warholm had a stunned reaction after he set the world record for the 400m hurdles at the Tokyo Olympics.

Rai Benjamin won the first medal of his Olympic career in an historic 400m hurdles final duel with Norway’s Karsten Warholm.

Team USA track and field athletes Ariana Ince and Annie Kunz are both competing at the Tokyo Olympics. They’re also roommates where they train in San Diego — and they share a fun bond.

Rai Benjamin won a silver medal in a record-breaking men’s 400m hurdles.

Morris won silver in the pole vault at both the 2016 Olympics and 2019 Worlds

American Valarie Allman won the gold in the women’s discus throw event while competing in wet conditions in Tokyo.  Despite a delay due to rain, Allman’s first attempt went 68.98 meters. That throw ended up standing as the best not only for Allman, but for all of the competitors.  The seven-time All-American at Stanford failed her second and third...

Noah Lyles wants to do something in Tokyo that no American sprinter has done at the Olympics since 2004 — win the gold medal at the 200m.  Lyles, 24, posted the best final time of 2021 when he won the 200m final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in June with a time of 19.74 seconds.  Lyles will…

Valarie Allman became an Olympic champion on Monday morning, winning gold in the women’s discus.

An activist group says a Belarusian sprinter is applying for a visa at Polish embassy in Tokyo and plans to seek asylum in Poland after alleging that officials tried to send her home from Japan

An activist group says a Belarusian sprinter is applying for a visa at Polish embassy in Tokyo and plans to seek asylum in Poland after alleging that officials tried to send her home from Japan

World champion Sifan Hassan has made an incredible recovery from a fall at the final bell to win her 1,500-meter heat at the Olympics

Keni Harrison won silver in the women’s 100m hurdles and Team USA advanced in the women’s 200m and 1500m.

The face and the voice of the Tokyo Olympics could very well be found in Raven Saunders

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya said on social media and claimed in comments to international reporters that she was being forcibly repatriated to Belarus

Yulimar Rojas triple jumped into the history books at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday. The Venezuelan earned a gold medal in the women’s triple jump final with a result of 15.67 meters, smashing a 26-year-old world record. Ukraine’s Inessa Kravets had owned the world record of 15.50m since 1995. The win gives the 6-foot-4 Rojas her second Olympic medal....

Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi were shaping up to have a jump off to determine who would win the gold medal in the high jump. Instead, the two made the decision that they would be co-champions of the event. Neither had missed any of their attempts going up to 2.37 meters, but when the pair attempted 2.39,…

If you haven’t already, meet Raven Saunders, one of the most electric athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. The American won silver in the women’s shot put, hurling the ball 19.79 meters. She finished behind China’s Gong Lijiao for the gold, but based on her celebration, that didn’t seem to bother her.  There’s a multitude of reasons the three-time NCAA...

Fred Kerley won the silver medal in men’s 100m final.

The Tokyo Olympics crowns a new fastest man alive on Sunday morning. Here’s how to watch.

Raven Saunders wins a silver medal in women’s shot put at the Tokyo Olympics.

Daniel Stahl and Simon Pettersson made history in the discus event on Saturday, sweeping the gold and silver medals for Sweden. It was the first time Sweden took gold and silver in the same event since 1948. Stahl’s 68.90m throw was just ahead of Pettersson’s 67.39m throw, but it was Stahl’s reaction afterward that stole the show. “I’m a...

Elaine Thompson-Herah is the fastest woman alive. The Jamaican sprinter earned the title during Saturday’s women’s 100m final at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. She sped to a 10.61 time, beating Florence Griffith Joyner’s 10.62 set at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. It marks the second-fastest time in history, trailing Griffith Joyner’s record 10.49. Thompson-Herah had posted times of 10.82 in…

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah won the women’s 100m final Saturday, breaking at 33-year old record in the process.

The U.S. 4x400m mixed relay team of Trevor Stewart, Kendall Ellis, Kaylin Whitney and Vernon Norwood won bronze Saturday morning with a time of 3:10.22. Poland won gold, while Dominican Republic claimed silver in the historic event, which was the first in Olympic history. Team USA was favored to win the event before Poland pulled off the upset victory....

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson Herah broke Florence Griffith Joyner’s Olympic record in the women’s 100m final Saturday.

Day 2 of track and field at the Tokyo Olympics has concluded, where the best track and field athletes gathered to continue moving toward the medal podium. Some made their Olympic debuts, eager to prove themselves on the world’s biggest stage. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the United States claimed 32 medals in track and field, which included 13 golds….

Sydney McLaughlin was only 17 years old when she made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Rio Games, becoming the youngest Olympic track and field athlete since 1972

With her green and purple hair and a grinning Joker mask, Team USA shot put star Raven Saunders set social media ablaze in her Tokyo Olympics debut Friday. This is the second Olympic Games for the 25-year-old South Carolina native, and this time she has her eyes set on a gold medal. “I want to bring that gold back to…

The U.S. men — Trayvon Bromell, Ronnie Baker and Fred Kerley — have a great chance in the 100m.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce turned heads in Tokyo on a track that seems primed to give way to a few Olympic records. The Jamaican sprinter and two-time Olympic champion finished with a time of 10.84 in the 100m heat. While she placed third behind Marie-Josée Ta Lou (10.78) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.82), Fraser-Pryce’s initial burst had many speculating she could be ready…

Track and field continues at the Tokyo Olympics with the men’s 10,000m final and heats in the mixed 4x400m relay.

The track stars won’t be the only athletes shining when events begin at Tokyo’s National Stadium on July 30. Some of the world’s best athletes in the long jump will put their talents on display during the Tokyo Olympics. But who are the athletes to watch in each event? Here is everything you need to know about the men’s...

Get the full Olympic track and field schedule, plus details on TV channels, when each event starts, live stream options and more.

The United States has enjoyed its fair share of success in the shot put at recent Olympics and looks to build on those accomplishments in 2021

Teahna Daniels, Javianne Oliver and Jenna Prandini all move on in the women’s 100m.

The United States’ Olympic track and field team has enjoyed its fair share of dominance over the storied history of the Olympic Games

The one-of-a-kind race features the world’s best middle-distance runners as they take on one of the most difficult obstacle courses of the Olympics

Here are 14 records that can be broken this summer.

Two dozen events are being added to existing sports, in addition to the brand-new sports of 3×3 basketball, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and karate

The high jumper from Las Vegas tries her hand at Legos to show how she flies through the air and over the bar.

Whether it’s swimming or track & field events in the summer, or skiing, luge and speedskating in the winter, we’re obsessed with how fast Olympians are going.

Banned sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was not on the Olympic roster released Tuesday by USA Track and Field, a decision that means the American champion’s positive test for marijuana will cost her a chance at running on the relay team in Tokyo, in addition to her spot in the 100-meter individual race.

The track star who was poised to be a favorite in Tokyo apologized for her actions, which led to her suspension from the games

The most anticipated race with the U.S. Olympic track and field trials coming down the homestretch may be the women’s 400-meter hurdles.

Only a select few can say they’re a Harvard University graduate. Fewer still can claim to be an Olympian. Gabby Thomas is both.

In Episode 2 of the new sports podcast “My New Favorite Olympian,” we interview sprinter Gabby Thomas about her other passion — improving health care in the Black community.

In 2015, Justin Phongsavanh was a 4-sport star in high school in Iowa with a promising athletic career in front of him. One night he went to McDonald’s for a bite. “My buddy and I were just trying to get some food before we went out camping for the night. We sat down, had some burgers, and when we left…

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more inspiring individual than Team USA Track & Field star Lex Gillette, who is preparing for his fifth straight Paralympics while at the same time motivating kids to embrace “feedback” from mentors.