Sonia O’Sullivan narrowly missed out being elected to the IAAF Council on the day Sebastian Coe was elected the new president of the international athletics governing body.

Athletics: Sergey Bubka, the IAAF vice president, said he is "deeply shocked" at the doping allegations against Russian athletes.

THE Athletes Commission, set up to give international sports people a greater role in the affairs of the Olympic Council of Ireland, has been disbanded by the executive council of the OCI.

Dmitriy Markov gave Australia their first gold medal of the World Championships with a superb victory in the pole vault on Thursday.

Sergei Bubka will bring the curtain down on his illustrious career at a meeting in his Ukrainian hometown of Donetsk, according to his secretary.