Athletics

Britian’s women made it a middle-distance clean sweep at the European Indoor Championships as Laura Muir and Shelayna Oskan-Clarke took gold on the final night in Glasgow.

Performance director Neil Black has defended British Athletics’ selection policy after being forced to pick just one male sprinter for the European Indoor Championships.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has revealed she is disappointed she cannot face rival Nafi Thiam on the European stage next month.

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake has welcomed Dwain Chambers’s racing return and insisted he does not hold his past against him.

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill will launch a major new sports and education programme for school-leavers in Yorkshire.

From running with his mum to pulling on the Team GB jersey, Emile Cairess’s rise has been steady and one of steely determination.

YORKSHIRE sports stars can look forward to a fabulous 12 months in which to showcase their talents.

Leeds featherweight boxer Josh Warrington, who won his first world title and then went on to defend it against the odds, ran out a comfortable winner of this year’s Yorkshire Post Sports Hero of 2018 poll.

LEEDS athlete Alexandra Bell did not take her omission from the 2018 Team GB European Championship squad lying down.

Dina Asher-Smith will have world gold within her grasp while a football World Cup throws up a domestic showdown to savour as women’s sport prepares to take centre stage in 2019.

Teaching is still affected at the University of Leeds more than 24 hours after a power outage began.

Jonnie Peacock expects to get faster and faster as he chases a third successive Paralympic 100m title at Tokyo 2020.

STRUCTURAL steel group Severfield has delivered a rise in half year revenues after it secured a host of high profile projects.

Sir Mo Farah has refused to rule out an Olympic title defence at Tokyo 2020.

A Yorkshire athlete who has competed for her country has hit out at a man who body shamed her while she waited for a train.

Dina Asher-Smith completed her sprint treble bid and immediately set her sights on the 2020 Olympics as Laura Muir claimed her maiden outdoor title to cap a historic European Championships for Great Britain.

As the images flashed from Jack Laugher in the pool in Edinburgh to Jess Learmonth running through a park in Glasgow to a young Belarusian winning the 100m hurdles in Berlin, it was hard to escape the feeling that these European Championships have created greater confusion than anything else.

YORKSHIRE’S Marc Scott underlined his status as one of Great Britain’s best long-distance runners at the European Championships as the Northallerton athlete finished fifth in the 5,000m.

DOUBLE Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee admits he is considering retirement at the end of the triathlon season after finishing a disappointing fourth at the European Championships.