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.

Charles Philibert-Thiboutot was hoping to take a serious run at reclaiming his Canadian record in the 3,000 metres at Thursday's Diamond League track and field meet in Zürich, though he isn't certain his body will co-operate.

Alysha Newman is headed to her fourth Diamond League Final in women's pole vault, and first in five years, after nearly matching her Canadian record performance from the recent Paris Olympics to open the Weltklasse Zürich track and field meet on Wednesday.

Fresh off a Canadian record over 3,000 metres, distance runner Moh Ahmed returns to the 5,000 event for Friday's Golden Gala event in Rome, where another strong performance could help him clinch a spot in the 10-man race at the Diamond League Final next month.

Marco Arop, the reigning world 800-metre champion, will run for his first Olympic gold medal on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. ET after grabbing the last spot for the eight-man final in Saint-Denis, France.

On Friday, Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S., will compete in a shot put final at the Olympics after securing a berth on her opening throw of Thursday's qualification round in Saint-Denis, France.

World champion Marco Arop is a step closer to his goal of running for his first Olympic medal in the men's 800 metres. The Edmonton athlete was second in his heat Wednesday, stopping the clock in one minute 45.74 seconds.

Canadian record holder Alysha Newman, in her third Summer Games appearance, will compete in a women's Olympic pole vault final for the first time. Newman cleared 4.55 metres on Monday in Paris to qualify for Wednesday's showdown at 1 p.m. ET.

Divers Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray captured Canada's second bronze medal at the Paris Olympics on Monday. They scored 422.13 points behind China (490.35) and Great Britain (463.44) in the men's 10-metre synchro platform final.

Andre De Grasse fell short of his third victory of the outdoor season in the 100 metres but did run a season-best 10.00 seconds to match the entry standard for the Paris Olympics at Tuesday’s Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland.

Rowan Hamilton of Chilliwack, B.C., threw a personal-best 77.18 metres for the University of California to win the men's hammer throw at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships on Wednesday in Eugene, Ore.