PAUL HESSION and David Gillick will round off what has been a sensational season for Irish sprinters, when they compete in the VTB World Athletic Final in Thessalonki tomorrow and Sunday.

Usain Bolt was again in vintage form at last night’s IAAF Golden League meeting where he ran the world’s fourth fastest ever 200 metres despite wet and cold conditions.

JEREMY WARINER wants to break the stadium record in the 400m at the 33rd Belgacom Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels tonight – and Ireland’s David Gillick will have a part to play in the bid.

A tired Usain Bolt celebrated his 23rd birthday today after smashing his second world record in five days at the World Championships in Berlin.

USAIN BOLT created yet another piece of athletics history last night with a sensational victory in the 200 metres at the World Championships in Berlin.

DAVID GILLICK produced the third fastest time of his career to qualify for tomorrow night’s 400m final at the world championships in Berlin.

Irish record holder Paul Hession finished sixth in his 200 metres semi-final at the World Championships in Berlin tonight, missing out on a final spot by two-tenths of a second.

PAUL HESSION and Derval O’Rourke delivered the perfect ending to an exciting day for Irish athletics at the world championships in Berlin when they both qualified for today’s semi-finals of their respective events.

Paul Hession has completed a very encouraging day for Ireland at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin, qualifying for tomorrow evening's 200 metres semi-finals.

DAVID GILLICK’S historic 44.77-second run in Madrid last month was recognised yesterday when he was given the Crowne Plaza Athlete of the Month Award for July as he packed his bags for the world championships in Berlin.

PAUL HESSION and Derval O’Rourke will be back to full fitness in plenty of time for the world championships which get under way in Berlin on Saturday week.

PAUL HESSION may have lost his winning streak but he maintained his form in Lucerne last night where he finished fifth in the 200m in 20.75 secs.

USAIN BOLT was overwhelmed after becoming the first man to win the Olympic sprint double for 24 years with his second amazing world record in five days in Beijing.

Usain Bolt tonight joined an exclusive club when he stormed to victory in the 200m final at the Bird’s Nest in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds.

PAUL HESSION ran another seasonal best for third place in the 200m while two more third places for David Gillick in the 400m and Alistair Cragg in the 3,000m at the Aviva Grand Prix in Crystal Palace underscored a weekend of highs and lows for Ireland’s Beijing-bound athletes.

Paul Hession gave notice that he is a serious contender for a place in the Olympic final by running a season's best time (20.37 seconds) in this afternoon's world class 200 metres race at the Aviva London Grand Prix.

ROISÍN McGETTIGAN earned a deserved and timely boost in advance of the Olympic Games when she won the women’s steeplechase at the first session of the VIVA British Grand Prix at Crystal Palace last night.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has recorded the second fastest ever time in the 100 metres, clocking 9.76 seconds at the Jamaica International Invitation meet

PAUL HESSION faces three of the top four from the world championships in the men’s 200m at the Van Damme Memorial Golden League meeting in Brussels this evening, with Tyson Gay the only missing medallist.

Tyson Gay picked up a third gold medal and Team USA continued to dominate in sprinting events by winning the 4x100 metres relay at the World Championships in Osaka tonight.

AFTER suffering a viral tummy bug and spending much of the week in isolation from the other members of the Irish team, David Campbell, last night ran the second fastest time of his career at the world championships in Osaka.

Tyson Gay became the third man in history to complete a World Championship sprint double after winning the 200 metres in Osaka on Thursday night.

Ireland's Alistair Cragg placed a disappointing seventh in the two-mile event at tonight's IAAF London Super Grand Prix at Crystal Palace.

Galway sprinter Paul Hession has broken Paul Brizzel's long-standing Irish 200 metres record tonight by finishing fourth at the British Grand Prix in Sheffield.

JUSTIN GATLIN became only the second man in World Championship history to complete the 100m/200m sprint double in Helsinki last night when he outgunned the young pretenders to add the 200m title to the 100m crown he won on Sunday.

THEY say it’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good and yesterday, at the world championships in Helsinki, the wind and the weather in general helped Irish athletes achieve their targets in various ways.