For the most talented youngsters, the next step of the journey is Jamaica's Boys and Girls Championships, a springboard to elite sprinting which takes place every year in a packed national stadium.

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis headlined three modern-day greats of track and field to glory in an electrifying night of action at the world indoor championships in Nanjing on Saturday.

Ruthe surged over the line in 3 mins 58.35 secs at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on Wednesday evening, driven on by his pacesetters, including two-time Olympian Sam Tanner who won the race.

Australian sprinting prodigy Gout Gout ran the fastest men's 200m in the world this year on Sunday, with the 17-year-old saying he felt "literally free".

Bangladesh Athletics Federation (BAF) picked 14 athletes while leaving out England-based sprinter Imranur Rahman for preparation for the South Asian Senior Athletics Championships, which are scheduled to take place in Ranchi, Jharkhand from May 3-5.

The last edition of the South Asian Games was held in Nepal in 2019.

The previous record belonged to Bangladesh Navy’s Abdur Rahim Nayeem, who had set it in December, 1993 with a timing of 51.87 seconds.

Sorowar improved by 0.61 metres in one year since he set a new record by clearing 14.89 metres in the last edition of the competition, held in February 2024.

Shirin Akter, meanwhile, maintained her dominance in the women’s 100m event, securing the title for a record 16th time.

England-based sprinter Imranur Rahman will not be considered to represent Bangladesh in international competitions until he proves himself in a special trial.

Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.

Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) has decided to hold a long-distance race titled BOA Marathon 2024 on December 20, said a press release on Monday.

The city of Paris will honour slain Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her, the French capital's mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Friday.

Cheptegei, 33, had sustained burns to 80 percent of her body, the acting head of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in the Rift Valley city of Eldorect where she was being treated, had told reporters on Tuesday.

Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to participate in the Paralympic Games after the visually impaired sprinter was selected to represent Italy in the women's 200 and 400 metres races in Paris.

”Today, we have received a mail from the World Aquatics who provided wild cards to Rafi and Sonia for the Paris Olympic Games. Both swimmers gained the wild card on the basis of their timing and ranking in the World Championship," Saif told The Daily Star today.

Every morning Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal checks texts from his Cairo-based coach -- a Gazan who cannot travel to him in the occupied West Bank -- to see his daily Olympics training schedule as he prepares to make history.

“We are also expecting another wild card in swimming within a couple of days,” BOA treasurer AK Sarkar told The Daily Star today.

Olympic 100m champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs ramped up his preparations for the Paris Games by breaching the 10-seconds mark twice on Tuesday to win gold at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland.

High-jumper Mahfuzur Rahman won silver medal in the Caya Mata Malaysian Open Athletics Championship, an invitational tournament in Malaysia.