Record number of nations win medals at WCH Tokyo 25
The World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 is the most widely covered and impactful World Championships in history.
The World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 is the most widely covered and impactful World Championships in history.
Four Africans, Suren Ayadassen (MRI), Pieter de Jager (RSA), Aminata Sangare (MLI) and Moses Bantsi (BOT), were honoured at the 55th World Athletics Congress in Tokyo.
More than 2000 athletes from almost 200 nations will compete for medals in 49 disciplines between 13-21 September at the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo.
Sprint legend Usain Bolt graced the red carpet alongside Olympic champions Mondo Duplantis and Thea LaFond at the star-studded party hosted by World Athletics in Tokyo.
The topics of growth, innovation and prioritisation drove discussion at the 238th World Athletics Council Meeting in Tokyo.
Athletics Kenya selected as the winning Member Federation of the Kids’ Athletics Day challenge, receiving the prize of a US$10,000 award to be used to promote and activate Kids’ Athletics in Kenya.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe reinforced the importance of a “historic” edition of the World Athletics Relays, speaking on the eve of an event that sees the mixed 4x100m make its global debut.
World Athletics and its Member Federations, athletics clubs, schools and people across the globe have celebrated Kids’ Athletics Day on Wednesday with the Relay Around the World Challenge.
World Athletics has officially designated Japan Airlines (JAL) as a supplier for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.
The Relay Around the World Challenge 2025 aims to be biggest Kids’ Athletics activation to date with target of 500,000 kids participating across the globe.
The reigning World Athlete of the Year to lead Relay Around the World Challenge ahead of Kids’ Athletics Day 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.
World Athletics congratulates Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry on her election as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe says that cases of confirmed age cheating could lead to the stripping of medals and nullification of results.
Athletics programme for Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games to include the mile and mixed 4x400m relay event.
As an Official World Athletics Supplier, Mondo will be actively involved in all World Athletics Series stadium events from 2025 to 2029.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe express delight at the quality of proposals by countries bidding to host the upcoming African Athletics Championships in 2025 and 2026.
The World Athletics Council has selected Beijing, China, to host the 2027 World Athletics Championships.
Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and coach, Gervais Hakizimana, tragically killed in Kenyan road accident on Sunday.
Tokyo, Japan has been selected as the host city for the World Athletics Championships in 2025, after beating rival bids from Nairobi, Silesia and Singapore.
As part of Kids’ Athletics Day, World Athletics is encouraging Member Federations, clubs, schools and other related organisations to explore the new Kids’ Athletics resources and activities and try them out.
World Athletics launches Global Conversation about the future of the sport – What you need to know.
World Athletics has announced details of the 2020 World Athletics Continental Tour, a series of the world’s best one-day meetings outside the Diamond League.
IAAF President Sebastian Coe was elected for a second term at the 52nd IAAF Congress in Doha on Wednesday, while Ximena Restrepo, Sergey Bubka, Geoffrey Gardner and Nawaf Bin Mohammed Al Saud were elected Vice Presidents.
The IAAF Council approved the global governing body’s new name and logo at the 217th IAAF Council Meeting which concluded in Monaco on June 8.
Japan will now host two of the biggest events on the athletics calendar in successive years after the IAAF Council voted this week to award the 2019 IAAF World Relays to Yokohama.
The IAAF has announced the selection of Nairobi in Kenya as the host city of the 2020 IAAF World Athletics U20 (Junior) Championships. Nairobi’s candidacy was formally endorsed by the IAAF Council in Buenos Aires on Thursday.
The IAAF issues new Eligibility Regulations for Female Classification (Athlete with Differences of Sexual Development) for events from 400m to the mile, including 400m, hurdles races, 800m, 1500m, one mile races and combined events over the same distances.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has announced the resignation of Chief Executive Officer, Olivier Gers.
Six World Indoor Championships medals will be reallocated during ceremonies at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on Friday and Saturday 2-3 March.
Nanjing 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.
Gdynia 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.
From next season, athletes will earn points in the first 12 IAAF Diamond League meetings to qualify for two final meetings where $100,000 will be at stake in each of the 32 Diamond Disciplines, including $50,000 for each winner.
Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) President, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum and South African doctor Harold Adams announced as one of the chairs of the newly formed IAAF commissions and advisory groups.
The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour will get underway in just over a week with the Karlsruhe indoor meeting in Germany set to raise the curtain on this new series on Saturday 6 February.
IAAF President Sebastian Coe has set out his road map for athletics to restore trust, confidence and deliver a vision for attracting more young people.
The IAAF received Letters of Interests from seven Member Federations interested in hosting the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships and the IAAF World U20 Championships.
The IAAF issues strong-worded response to allegations that the body tolerated rampant blood doping in Athletics and defends Paula Radcliffe’s blood data claims as based on “gross misinterpretation of raw and incomplete data.”
The Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has provisionally suspended the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) as an IAAF Member with immediate effect.
The IAAF President, Sebastian Coe, is seeking approval from his fellow IAAF Council Members to consider sanctions, which could include provisional and full suspension and the removal of future IAAF events, against the Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF).
In coordination with the International Athletics Foundation (IAF), the IAAF has cancelled this year’s IAF World Athletics Gala which was due to take place in Monaco on Saturday 28 November.
The IAAF Congress has elected Sebastian Coe to succeed Senegalese Lamine Diack as the sixth IAAF President at the 50th IAAF Congress in Beijing, China.
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