Athletics News

"Hi friends, it has been a while since my last diary, and many things have happened.

Paris, like so many host cities on the IAAF Diamond League circuit, is once again in thrall to that sporting phenomenon known as Usain Bolt.

Brigetta Barrett is an accomplished singer and so she probably knows Alice Cooper's 70s rock anthem 'Schools Out' off by heart. It's probably a tune she and the Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have been mentall...

Belete Assefa, winner of the men's 10000m on the first day, completed an impressive double when he also took the 5000m title on the fifth and last day of the 42nd Ethiopian athletics championships in Assela on Sunday (30...

A dominant display by Belete Assefa over 25 laps was the highlight of the first day action at the 42nd Ethiopian Championships held for the first time in Assela, Ethiopia (26-30 June 2013).

Seven world-class athletes joined dozens of young children today for an athletics competition held in the grounds of the Nestlé headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, situated on the banks of the picturesque Lake Geneva.

Australia's team of 20 athletes will be one of the first overseas squads to arrive in Ukraine ahead of next week's IAAF World Youth Championships as they are scheduled to touch down in the host city of Donetsk on Wednesd...

Israel Aweke and Mantegbosh Melese were comfortable winners of the men's and women's 800m titles on the second day of action at the Ethiopian Championships in Assela on Thursday (27).

There was a comfortable win for Guatemalan favourite Erick Barrondo in thre 20km Race Walk at the Dublin Grand Prix of Race Walking - part of this year's IAAF Race Walking Challenge and the last event before the IAAF Wor...

The provisional entry lists for the seventh meeting of the 2013 season of the IAAF Diamond League on Sunday 30 June in Birmingham, Great Britain, are now available.

For the second year in a row, the men's High Jump provided one of the outstanding highlights of the Athletissima meeting as Bohdan Bondarenko set an IAAF Diamond League record in Lausanne on Thursday night (4).

China had twin reasons to rejoice on the second day of the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune, India, as they took both 100m titles on Thursday (4).

The IAAF Combined Events Challenge will this weekend (29-30) be integrated into the European Cup Combined Events and exciting contests are in store in all three divisions.

Pre-race favourite Senbere Teferi was an impressive winner of the women's 5000m title on the third day of action at the Ethiopian Championships on Friday (28).

The claim of "the greatest ever night of 10,000m running" is of course open to discussion, but it is an undisputable fact that never before have the combined winning times of the men's and the women's 10,000m races in a ...

A steady drizzle on the opening day of the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in the Indian city of Pune brought forth frowns on the faces of the field event competitors but for Bahrain's Shetaye Eshete it was a time to ...

Nobody leapt to the top of the world rankings on a warm and sunny afternoon at the Sainsbury's Grand Prix in Birmingham this afternoon (30), but Olympic champion Christian Taylor came closest in the men's Triple Jump, wh...

Almaz Ayana was a comfortable winner of the women's 3000m Steeplechase title on the fourth day of action at the 42nd Ethiopian athletics championships in Assela on Saturday (29).

The fourth edition of the IAU Trail World Championships, which takes place on Saturday 6 July in the Wesh town of Llanrwst, will see both the defending men's and women's World champions Erik Clavery and Maud Gobert on th...

The IAAF is deeply saddened to receive the news that 1956 Olympic marathon champion Alain Mimoun passed away last night (Thursday 27 June) and on behalf of the global athletics community offers its sincerest sympathies a...

Ethiopia's double Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie will be recognized with an AIPS Power of Sport Award in the Olympic City of Lausanne on Sunday (30).

Four days of athletics action at the XVII Mediterranean Games in the Turkish city of Mersin came to an end on Saturday (29), with the best marks including Greece's Kostadinos Baniotis High Jump win with personal best of ...