Doug Harrison

Back in the spring, Ben Flanagan was thinking of a 2:08, 2:09 finish in his debut marathon. However, the Kitchener, Ont., athlete's priorities for Sunday's Toronto Waterfront event shifted after a shorter build while recovering from a partially torn labrum in his left hip joint.

Canadian long-distance runner Rory Linkletter clocked a personal-best time to finish ninth in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

The spotlight remained on Mary Jibb during Tuesday's races at the Para swimming world championships as the 18-year-old from Bracebridge, Ont., took down another of Stephanie Dixon's national records, this time in the women's 100-metre butterfly S9 final.

Moh Ahmed has been undergoing an intense injury rehab the past five weeks, his coach says, to prepare for two events at his seventh World Athletics Championships.

Two Canadian athletes say the rollout of the SRY gene test ahead of the World Athletics Championships in September has been a mess and has caused a lot of unnecessary stress to them, Athletics Canada and others to figure out how to get tested.

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, who says she's close to regaining her 2021 Olympic running form after nearly retiring last summer, will attempt to qualify for this year’s World Athletics Championships in the 1,500 and 5,000 metres this week at the Canadian championships in Ottawa.

After narrowly missing an Olympic medal on the track in Paris last summer, Canadian distance runner Moh Ahmed is scheduled to make his long-awaited half marathon debut Sunday at 7 a.m. ET in New York City.

Kylie Masse became Canada's most decorated athlete with her 20th combined medal at short and long course worlds, collecting bronze in the women's 50-metre backstroke.

Swimmer Summer McIntosh, the first Canadian to win three gold medals in a summer or winter Olympic Games, captured the women's 400-metre freestyle in a world record 3:50.25 for her first individual world short course championship gold medal on Tuesday.

Since leaving her "most challenging" Olympics in Paris, Penny Oleksiak has climbed 19,000 feet to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, done other charity work and attended her first Bills football game in Buffalo. "Trying to have a life outside of swimming is important," she says.