A round-up of recent athletics results and news, including world-leading performances at the IAAF World Indoor Tour meeting in Karlsruhe and a British indoor long jump record by Greg Rutherford in New Mexico
Schippers 7.07 WL
Dafne Schippers opened her...

Pippa Woolven leads University of Birmingham to gold in Gloucester as Callum Hawkins wins the men s title for West of Scotland
University of Birmingham swept to three of the four titles on offer at the BUCS Cross Country Championships in a wet, windy a...

If you have time for only one mobility exercise, then make it this one, says physiotherapist Jenny Blizard
As a physiotherapist, I am always stressing to athletes that is hugely important to keep the thoracic spine (the upper part of your back that att...

The double Olympic gold medallist is running the London Marathon in April
Twelve years after claiming her Olympic 800m and 1500m titles in Athens, Dame Kelly Holmes is using another Olympic year to embrace a new challenge in the form of the Virgin Mone...

World No.1 improves national record to 8.26m with great opener to 2016
Greg Rutherford fired a warning to his rivals when he jumped a British indoor record of 8.26m in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday night.

The Olympic, world, European and Commonwe...

The Olympic and world heptathlon champion has a sore Achilles and does not want to take any risks ahead of the Rio Games
Jessica Ennis-Hill is no longer set to compete at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix on February 20, with the Olympic and world heptathl...