Kwizera and Battocletti win 2024-2025 World Athletics Cross Country Tour
Rodrigue Kwizera of Burundi and Nadia Battocletti of Italy topped the 2024-2025 World Athletics Cross Country Tour rankings.
Rodrigue Kwizera of Burundi and Nadia Battocletti of Italy topped the 2024-2025 World Athletics Cross Country Tour rankings.
The succession of legendary Paul Tergat as president of National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) gathers pace as Francis Mutuku formally enters the race for the top position.
From 2025, there will also be a select number of Diamond+Disciplines – four at the series meetings and eight at the Final – in which athletes can earn higher prize money.
Kenyans Justus Kangogo and Vibian Chepkirui, who holds the course record in Vienna, head the start list with personal bests of 2:05:57 and 2:20:59 respectively.
Defending champion Sheila Chelangat will return to defend her title at the 20th edition of the Türkiye Is Bankasi Istanbul Half Marathon on 27th April.
The World Athletics Relays Gaborone 26 will see Botswana host a World Athletics Series event for the first time.
Slide to view the photos from the World Athletics Indoor Championships held at the Nanjing Cube in Nanjing, China from 21-23 March 2025.
After the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, Guangzhou will host the World Athletics Relays in May and then the World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo in September.
Prudence Sekgodiso breaks the South African record to win the women’s 800m gold in 1:58.40 ahead of Ethiopian Nigist Getachew, silver in 1:59.63, at the World Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia set a new championship record of 3:54.86 to claim the 1500m gold ahead of compatriot Diribe Welteji at the World Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu wins the second world indoor title of her career, and her third world indoor medal across as many disciplines, at the World Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 on Saturday.
Andy Diaz Hernandez won the men’s triple jump ahead of Zhu Yaming and world champion Hugues Fabrice Zango at the 2025 World Indoor Championships in Nanjing.
South African Akani Simbine secured a bronze medal in the 60m final at the World Indoor Championships Nanjing 25, marking his first individual global medal.
Bayanda Walaza and emerging hurdles talent Tumi Ramokgopa starred, as sprinting prodigies set new South African U20 records at the ASA Grand Prix 2 event at UJ Stadium in Johannesburg on Wednesday night.
World Athletics congratulates Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry on her election as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The Prefontaine Classic is set to dedicate the women’s 800m to Maria Mutola (Mozambique). Henceforth, the event will be named the “Mutola 800m”.
A strong women’s field headed by Workenesh Edesa of Ethiopia will line up at the 2025 Haspa Marathon Hamburg on 27th April.
Ethiopian Tesfaye Deriba (2:04:13) and Kenyan Sharon Chelimo (2:19:33) set new course records at the 46th Zurich Marató Barcelona on Sunday.
Eleven individual defending champions and 20 medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are among the entries for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
Tapiwanashe Makarawu (Kentucky) equalled the Zimbabwean record to win the men’s 200m title in 20.13 ahead of compatriot Makanakaishe Charamba (Auburn), who finished second in 20.16, at the 2025 NCAA D1 Indoor Championships in Virginia.
Double Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge is set for a new chapter in his incomparable marathon journey as he heads to compete at the TCS Sydney Marathon on Sunday 31 August 2025.
Kenyan trio of Justus Kangogo, Douglas Chebii and Stanley Kurgat head the men’s elite field at the 2025 Vienna City Marathon on 6th April.
The Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) has submitted a bid to host the 2026 World Athletics Relays, coinciding with Botswana’s 60th year of independence.
Leandri Holtzhausen produced an impressive heave of 67.95m to win the women’s hammer throw and the national women’s 4x400m relay team broke the nine-year-old SA record over four laps.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says that cases of confirmed age cheating could lead to the stripping of medals and nullification of results.
The World Athletics Road Running Championships 2025 will no longer be held in San Diego in September, World Athletics announced.
Eleven athletes have secured wild card places for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 as winners of the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Tour.
Nigerian Ezekiel Nathaniel lowers his African record to 44.74 to win the 400m title at the 2025 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships in Lubbock, Texas on Saturday 1 March.
Kenyans Harrison Muchira Wanjiru and Lydia Naliaka Wamalwa emerged victorious at the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Half-marathon in the Nigerian capital city on Saturday 1 March.
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