Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan won the women’s 5,000 metres gold on Monday to kick off her bid for an unprecedented Olympic treble at the Tokyo Games.

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, a Belarusian Olympic athlete who claimed her team tried to force her to leave Japan, will likely travel to Poland, her husband told AFP on Monday, adding he himself had left Belarus. She has been granted a humanitarian visa by the Warsaw government.

Tentoglou grabs long jump title

Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim added Olympic gold to his list of accolades in the men's high jump in Tokyo on Sunday - and persuaded organisers to let him share it with his friend and rival, Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi.

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won Puerto Rico's first-ever Olympics athletics gold in the women's 100 metres hurdles on Monday while Miltiadis Tentoglou became Greece's first men's long jump champion.

Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu won badminton women's doubles gold on Monday, breaking a Chinese stranglehold and claiming Indonesia's first title of the Tokyo Olympics.

Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela jumped 15.67 metres on Sunday to break the world record in the women’s triple jump, with her last attempt of the

Caeleb Dressel powered to his fifth swimming gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday as the United States won their duel in the pool with

Emma McKeon was the undisputed sprint queen in Tokyo after completing the sprint double with victory in the 50m freestyle and then winning

Alexander Zverev became the first German man to win an Olympic singles gold medal on Sunday, with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Karen Khachanov of

Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs outshone a field of unusual suspects to claim a shock Olympic gold in the men’s 100 metres on Sunday, breaking retired Jamaican star Usain Bolt’s 13-year hold on the blue riband event.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs claimed a stunning upset victory in the Olympic men’s 100 metres final on Sunday, becoming the first Italian to take the most coveted title in athletics and doing it in a European record time of 9.80 seconds.

Bangladesh completed yet another disappointing campaign in the Olympics with sprinter Jahir Rayhan producing a lackluster performance to finish 44th among 47 athletes in the 400m run of Tokyo Olympics yesterday.

A Belarusian sprinter said she was taken to the airport against her wishes on Sunday to board a flight back home after she complained about national coaches at the Tokyo Olympics.

Lamont Marcell Jacobs claimed a stunning upset victory in the Olympic 100 metres final on Sunday, becoming the first Italian to take the most coveted title in athletics and doing it with a huge European record of 9.80 seconds.

China's Su Bingtian became the first Asian man to reach the Olympic 100 metres final for 89 years on Sunday, scorching to an Asian record of 9.83 in his semi-final, but pre-race favourite Trayvon Bromell failed to make it.

World number five Alexander Zverev won the biggest title of his career when he crushed Russian Karen Khachanov 6-3 6-1 on Sunday to win the men's singles gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

Australia's Emma McKeon became the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games on Sunday after completing the sprint double with victory in the 50m freestyle and then winning another gold in the women's 4x100 medley relay.

Bangladesh’s sprinter Jahir Rayhan produced a lackluster performance in the 400m run in Tokyo Olympics, where the 20-year-old athlete ended up registering a timing that was far off from his personal best, at the Olympic Stadium in Japan this morning.

World number 12 Belinda Bencic dug deep to overpower Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 on Saturday and win the Tokyo Olympics