Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango soared to victory in the men’s triple jump for the country’s first-ever World Athletics Championships gold on Monday, while 18-year-old title favourite Jaydon Hibbert of Jamaica pulled out injured.

Two-time Fiji Finals blue ribbon winner Kesaia Boletakanakadavu achieved a personal best of 12.46 seconds at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The Royals coach Antonio Raboiliku says the Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad & Tobago has been a wonderful experience to be able to take two youths who were selected from the Coca-Cola games to test out their feet on an international stage before the Pacific Games.

Jamaican Oblique Seville put the United States on warning that they will have their work cut out for another world 100 metres sweep when he posted the fastest time of the first round with an impressive 9.86 second run.

The mixed 4×400 metres relay has been a bit of a slow burn since joining the world athletics championships in 2019, with star athletes often giving it a miss, but Gabby Thomas said she, and the United States, were taking it very seriously in Budapest.

Two-time Fiji Finals blue ribbon winner, Kesaia Boletakanakadavu has left our shores to compete in the World Athletics Championships.

Team Fiji swimmer David Young finished in fourth place in the Men’s 50m Freestyle final at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

The valiant efforts of athletes vying for a spot in the Pacific Games have not gone unnoticed especially those who come from a far to give it their best shot.

The United States will send 139 athletes packed with world and Olympic gold medal winners to the athletics world championships in Budapest led by sprinters Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman, USA Track and Field said on Monday.

Athletics Fiji works arduously to cultivate in tapping potential of athletes throughout the nation.

Somalia’s minister of youth and sports suspended the chairwoman of the country’s athletics federation and is set to initiate legal action after a female sprinter took more than 21 seconds to complete the 100 metres at the World University Games.

Thirty-six athletes and nine officials from Fiji will be participating in the Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.