From Olympic golds to World Cup wins to historic feats, this century has been full of incredible moments for women’s sport in the UK – and now we want you to decide on the greatest of them all.

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women who have not only excelled on the track, field and roads, but who have also helped shape athletics itself.

Poland's Robert Korzeniowski, a four-time Olympic racewalking champion, has been awarded France’s prestigious Legion of Honour in recognition of his sporting achievements and contribution to ...

Nunn-Cearns won heptathlon gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Games – the first time the event featured at the Olympics. Nunn-Cearns, who began competing in athletics at nine while she was a student at ...

Comebacks turn great athletes into legends. The Olympics push the body and mind harder than any other event. Some athletes ...

Mithali Raj is another legendary figure in Indian cricket. Often called the “Lady Tendulkar of Indian Women’s Cricket," she ...

The defection of some of Iran’s Women’s Asian Cup soccer team while in Australia adds to a long list of asylum-seeking sports ...

As a Villanova student, he captured the 1,500-meter event in the 1956 Games in Melbourne. No Irish athlete since then has won ...

For much of modern Olympic history, the success of major event infrastructure was judged by how it held up during the Games themselves. Today, the real test comes years later: whether those venues and ...

Ben Lynch saved the best Irish result until last when finishing eighth in Friday’s freestyle skiing halfpipe final ...

Despite the delays, neglect, and indecisiveness, Nigerian female athletes' achievements trump those of their male ...

The two sprinters took to the winner's podium shoeless, wearing black socks (to represent the poverty of Afro-Americans), black scarves (to symbolize the horror of lynchings) and black gloves (as a ...