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The UK government has confirmed its support for London's bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships.

If successful, the event would return to London Stadium, which last hosted the event in 2017.

Ministers are also backing a UK bid for the World Para Athletics Championships in 2029, saying they are "committed to taking [it] beyond the capital with a host city to be confirmed in due course".

The government said that "subject to funding from partners being confirmed, [it] has agreed to provide significant funding for both bids".

BBC Sport has been told that about £35m is expected to come from central government, with £10m of public funding from the London Mayor's office.

The news is a major boost to the sport, with London Stadium hosting a sold-out Diamond League meeting in front of 60,000 spectators on Saturday.

More here.

We're off in the women's 5,000m.

Great Britain's Alexandra Millard has led out the 18-strong field in the opening lap.

Molly Caudery update - the Briton has cleared 4.60m without too much issue.

She's keeping pace with Olympic champion Katie Moon, who has cleared 4.45m and 4.60m.

Here are the final standings in what was a fascinating men's 800m

More good news for Great Britain in the 800m - Ethan Hussey finishes ninth with a time of 1:44:30, which is enough to qualify him for the Athletics World Championships in Tokyo in September.

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Teenage talent Innes Fitzgerald is one of five British athletes in the women's 5,000m field.

The 19-year-old cross country star will line-up alongside Megan Keith, Calli Hauger-Thackery, Hannah Nuttall and Alexandra Millard.

Of the British athletes, Nuttall has the fastest season best with a time of 14 minutes 50.42 seconds, while Ethiopian Chaltu Dida has the quickest 2025 time in the field with 14:27.11.

Steve Cram
Athletics commentator on BBC TV

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That was really interesting.

I think if Wanyonyi ever wants to break that record then he needs to go through it a bit slower because he is so strong on the home straight.

He is a great competitor.

Wanyonyi snatches it at the finish line! Canada's Marco Arop looked to be in control on the final stretch, but the Olympic champion digs deep to take first.

However, he misses the world record with a time of 1:42:00. He might have gone a bit too quick too soon.

He has, however, set a meet record with that time.

Max Burgin takes third with 1:42:36, a personal record that makes him the third fastest British man in the 800m.

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The men's 800m gets underway - Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi makes a strong start to the first lap as he chases a world record, which is 1:40:91.

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The men's 800m will take place in a few minutes.

Great Britain's Ben Pattison and Max Burgin line up in a world-class field, alongside compatriot Ethan Hussey and Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya.

The Brits will have their work cut out to beat Wanyonyi, who set the world best this season with a time of 1:41.44.

The second best time in the field is the 1:42:73 shared by Spain's Mohamed Attaoui and Canada's Marco Arop.

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Reiging world and Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh will be looking for more success in the women's high jump.

The 23-year-old faces Great Britain's Morgan Lake at the London Stadium.

Steve Cram
Athletics commentator on BBC TV

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As always Femke Bol looks to be taking it in her normal, serene, stride.

She has set such high standards so it's made 52.1 look fairly ordinary.

She is a tough competitor and she will have expectations on herself. She is smiling but I think she will have wanted a quicker time.

Update from the women's pole vault - Great Britain's Molly Caudery has cleared her opening two heights of 4.3m and 4.45m. Solid start.

No surprises today - Femke Bol takes the women's 400m hurdles event with a comfortable finish at a wet London Stadium.

She finishes with a time of 52.10 seconds, a little above her best this year, clear of Jasmine Jones of the United States who takes second with a season-best 53.18.

Andrenette Knight of Jamaica is third with 53.79, while Great Britain's Lina Nielsen is sixth with 55.04.

Great Britain's Lina Nielsen, with a season best of 54.66 seconds, takes lane three.

Favourite Femke Bol is in lane six.

And they're all away cleanly!

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World champion Femke Bol lines up in the women's 400m hurdles.

The Dutch star, who also took bronze in the event at the past two Olympics, faces Great Britain's Lina Nielsen.

Bol has the season's best time of 51.95 seconds, set in Monaco last month.

We've got another Para result for you.

Paralympic champion Ben Sandilands won the men's Para 1500m with a season-best 3:48:95, almost 11 seconds ahead of runner-up Luke Nuttall in a mixed-class race.

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Jeremiah Azu, part of the British team who came second in the men's 4x100m, speaking to BBC One: "The performance was solid. As a team we did the job and we got the baton around and we went safe with our changes.

"The aim was to just finish and we ran quicker than we have done this season, so it’s all positives gearing up to September.

“Tokyo is where we want to run fast and be in the top three to get medals. It’s all learning so it’s great.

“The atmosphere is great as usual.”

Harry Poole
BBC Sport at London Stadium

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It was, as Molly Caudery says, simply "a bad day to have a bad day" - but the 25-year-old wasted little time in recasting her failure to qualify for the Paris 2024 final as fuel in her pursuit of future success.

In an outstanding breakout 2024 season, Britain's pole vault star claimed world indoor gold in Glasgow and broke Holly Bradshaw's British record with a vault over 4.92m to position herself among the Olympic favourites.

She endured a brutal - and in her own words "heartbreaking" - setback at the Stade de France, where she failed to clear her opening height of 4.55m, but has already cleared 4.85m this year as she aims to peak for this year's World Championships.

She told BBC Sport earlier this year: "More than anything it has fuelled me. It has given me this extra drive that I did not know I had.

"You've got to make the best of a bad situation but it is not something I think about too much in a negative way. It's in the past, I have moved on and I'm in a much better place."

The women's pole vault will be starting shortly. It's a big day for Molly Caudery.