Race favourite Sam Jamieson has cruised to victory in the annual Stawell Gift in Victoria this afternoon.

The former director of athletics at Northern Illinois University, Jim Phillips, was confirmed to a post of director of athletics and recreation at Northwestern University Thursday.

It was a rather successful weekend for Sweden’s sportsmen and –women. Swedish athlete Sanna Kallur is now the fastest woman in the world.

Olympic gold medalist Joanna Hayes and World Championship bronze medalist Kara Goucher have been added to the lineup for Friday’s 101st Millrose Games, organizers announced on January 28.

Marion Jones has admitted that she took banned drugs during her career, in a move that could see her stripped of her five Olympic medals.

Russian pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and American 400 metres runner Sanya Richards remained in contention for the Golden League jackpot with victories at the Van Damme meeting in Brussels.

With Friday's Van Damme Memorial in Brussels and Sunday's concluding ISTAF meet in Berlin to conclude the Golden League season, only American 400-meter runner Sanya Richards and Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva are still in the running for the million-dollar jackpot.

Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva, along with compatriots Lyudmila Kolchanova and Tatyana Kotova, swept to victory Tuesday, taking all medals in the women's Long Jump at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan.

Yelena Isinbayeva winked at the camera, already celebrating her second straight pole vault title as she attempted to break her world record.

American Michelle Perry took her second straight world title in the 100-meter hurdles on Wednesday, fourteen years after a freak accident got her out of soccer. Her gold reinforced the United States atop the medal table.

Russian athletes will be in the spotlight, Tuesday, at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan. As VOA's David Byrd reports, world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia hopes to capture another world title in the women's pole vault.

Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell has won the women's 100-meters title at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan. As VOA's David Byrd reports, Campbell edged defending champion Lauryn Williams to take the crown.