As a Villanova student, he captured the 1,500-meter event in the 1956 Games in Melbourne. No Irish athlete since then has won another Olympic gold medal in track and field.

World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Ireland's 1956 Olympic 1500m champion Ron Delany died on Wednesday (11) at ...

Irish athletics is mourning the loss of one of its most iconic figures following the death of Olympic 1500 metres champion Ronnie Delany who passed away shortly after his 91st birthday. Delany secured ...

The death has taken place of Ronnie Delany at the age of 91, the athlete indelibly associated with his Olympic 1,500m triumph in Melbourne in 1956 and to this day one of the greatest achievements in ...

IRISH athletics legend Ronnie Delany has died at the age of 91. The Arklow-born runner famously won Olympic gold in the 1500 ...

She won three gold medals as a sprinter in the Games, an achievement that seemed unlikely given her poor health as a child.

More than 50 years before the first Paralympic Games were held, the Vatican had already hosted what might have been the very first international sporting and gymnastics event with athletes living with ...

An 84-year-old man who has swum the English Channel 33 times shows no sign of slowing down after returning home from a ...

Italian organisers are now contemplating a bid for the 2040 Summer Games, following the recent Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, which IOC President Kirsty Coventry hailed for setting "a new, very high ...

Goodbye Milan Cortina. See you in Rome in 2040? Now that the just-concluded Winter Olympics have been hailed for setting “a new, very high standard” by IOC President Kirsty Coventry, Italian ...