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World track and field news and running information. Athletics updates from Asia, Europe, Americas and the Middle East.
With two weeks to go until the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018, the provisional entry lists have been published.
Continue readingTeam Qatar will be out in full force at this year’s Doha Diamond League at the Qatar Sports Club on Friday 4 May when the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Series gets underway.
Continue readingIt’s less than a month to go until the start of the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018, to be staged from 5-6 May in the eastern Chinese city.
Continue readingThe top European finisher in the 2016 women’s Olympic Marathon, Belarusian Volha Mazuronak, will run the METRO Marathon Düsseldorf on Sunday April 29, 2018.
Continue readingThe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has announced the resignation of Chief Executive Officer, Olivier Gers.
Continue readingSix World Indoor Championships medals will be reallocated during ceremonies at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on Friday and Saturday 2-3 March.
Continue readingIAAF Heritage sets out to preserve the legacy of Athletics, its heroes & heroines, their artefacts, and the documents, video & photographs that portray them and in turn engage with and inspire the stars and fans of the present and future.
Continue readingThe IAAF Doping Review Board has agreed to allow Russian athletes Maksim Afonin and Anna Krylova to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2018.
Continue readingThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) approves plans to target African National Olympic Committees (NOCs) as potential host cities of the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2022.
Continue reading“The New Norm”, an ambitious set of 118 reforms that reimagines how the Olympic Games are delivered, was presented to the membership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)at its 132nd Session.
Continue readingThe 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships – Birmingham 2018 – is on course to become one of the biggest ever edition of the IAAF’s second largest competition.
Continue readingThe 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, a series of the six finest indoor meetings on the planet, kicks off one week from today with the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Saturday 3 February.
Continue readingLondon 2017 IAAF World championships silver medallist Christian Coleman stunned the athletics world on Friday when he sped to a 6.37 world record over 60m at the Clemson Invitational in South Carolina
Continue readingNanjing is awarded 2020 World Indoor Championships on the second and final day of the 212th IAAF Council Meeting, chaired by IAAF President Sebastian Coe, held at Le Meridien hotel, Monaco.
Continue readingGdynia and Minsk to host 2020 World Athletics Series events – highlights of the first day of the 212th IAAF Council Meeting, chaired by IAAF President Sebastian Coe, was held today at Le Meridien hotel, Monaco.
Continue readingQatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2017, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Continue readingFor runners across Africa, a new half marathon in the state of Manipur, India, is inviting participants to the festival of activities to herald the first Sangai Run on November 19, 2017.
Continue readingThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) launches Olympic Refuge Foundation in its commitment to support refugees around the world.
Continue readingDoha will host the IAAF World Championships at Khalifa International Stadium in two years’ time, bringing athletics’ flagship event to the Middle East for the first time in history.
Continue readingLeeds Beckett University, in cooperation with the IAAF, will carry out the biggest biomechanics research project ever conducted in athletics during next month’s IAAF World Championships London 2017.
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