Keely Hodgkinson has been granted top-level funding on the British Athletics World Class Programme but some big names have missed out.

 

The governing body announced that 67 athletes have received funding for the next Olympic cycle.

 

Hodgkinson, 19, won 800m silver at the Tokyo Olympics where she smashed Dame Kelly Holmes' 26-year-old British record by almost a second.

 

Funding has been cut for Mo Farah, CJ Ujah, Tom Bosworth and Andrew Butchart.

 

Four-time Olympic champion Farah, 38, missed out on the Games in Japan after failing to qualify for the 10,000m.

Joanna Coates has resigned as chief executive of UK Athletics and performance director Sara Symington has stepped down to join British Cycling.

 

Coates was appointed in February 2020, after Zara Hyde-Peters opted not to take up the role.

 

UK Athletics chair Ian Beattie said: "I'd like to thank Jo and Sara for their work and I wish them both all the best for the future."

 

Development director Mark Munro will take over as interim boss.

Ethiopia's Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women's half marathon world record by running 62 minutes and 52 seconds in Valencia.

 

The 23-year-old beat the previous best over 13.1 miles - set by Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich - by 70 seconds.

 

Gidey is also the world 5,000m and 10,000m world record holder, winning bronze in the latter distance at the Tokyo Olympics in the summer.

One of Ecuador's best-known athletes, Alex Quiñónez, has been shot dead.

 

He was shot along with another person outside a shopping centre in the city of Guayaquil on Friday night. A motive is not yet clear.

 

Tributes have been pouring in for Mr Quiñónez, 32, who was described by Ecuador's athletics federation as the country's greatest sprinter.

Oh that's awful, thoughts are with the families of him and the other person who died. Scary that things like this seem to be happening more often now.

Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir won the women's race at the New York City marathon as compatriot Albert Korir claimed the men's title.

 

Olympic champion Jepchirchir sprinted for the finish line to beat Kenya's Viola Cheptoo, who was second, and third-placed Ethiopian Ababel Yeshaneh.

 

The 28-year-old won in a time of two hours 22 minutes 39 seconds.

 

Jepchirchir is the first athlete to win Olympic gold and the race in New York in the same year.

 

Korir had a winning time of 2:08:22, with runner-up Mohamed El Aaraby of Morocco finishing 44 seconds behind him and Italian Eyob Faniel claiming third.

A former athletics coach has been handed a lifetime ban from the sport for misconduct towards athletes.

 

John Lees, who coached athletes who represented Great Britain at senior level, appealed against a five-year sanction issued in February.

 

But an independent appeal committee, chaired by Jane Mulcahy QC, found him guilty of five charges relating to his misconduct towards athletes.

Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo has set a new world record for the half marathon, shaving one second off the previous best time.

 

The 21-year-old clocked 57 minutes 31 seconds as he won the Lisbon Half Marathon road race on Sunday.

Laviai Nielsen and Adam Gemili have been taken off UK Athletics' World Class Programme after opting to stay with US coach Rana Reider.

 

Reider is under investigation by US Safe Sport amid multiple complaints of sexual misconduct against him.

 

Sprinter Gemili and 400m runner Nielsen have opted to remain part of his training group in Florida.

 

However, two-time Olympic bronze medallist Daryll Neita has left Reider's group and retains her funding.

 

"UK Athletics' (UKA) position has not changed in that any athlete working directly with Rana Reider, given the confirmed complaints of sexual misconduct against him from US Safe Sport, will not be able to be supported through the World Class Programme (WCP)," said UKA in a statement.

 

"Our discussions have been ongoing with athletes who are working directly with Rana Reider in Florida.