Athletics News

Sweden's Irene Ekelund stormed to a 22.92 lifetime best and championship record on the final day of this year's IAAF World Youth Championships on Sunday (14) to more than make amends for finishing fifth in the 100m final...

Harry Coppell became the first British male athlete to win a global Pole Vault title, taking gold in Donetsk with a PB of 5.25m.

Anita Hinriksdottir of Iceland set a championship record of 2:01.13 to take the girls' 800m title here in Donetsk after a brilliant run in this afternoon's final, taking her country's first ever gold medal at a global ch...

Perri Shakes-Drayton smashes the British Championships record in the women's 400m hurdles to win her fifth UK title and secure a World Championship place.

• Gay blames 'accident' and pulls out of world championships• Powell and four fellow Jamaicans also test positive Athletics was left in shock after it was revealed that Tyson Gay, the world's fastest 100m runner this...

Yomif Kejelcha took Ethiopia back to the top of the podium for the first time in this event after three editions of IAAF World Youth Championships where Kenyans had won, taking the victory with an impressive change of pa...

It happened in one of the final events of the last day of the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships, but Romania's Florentina Marincu became the only athlete of the week to win gold medals in two individual events.

Kenya will send a provisional team of 49 athletes for the 2013 IAAF World Championships after the conclusion of the national trials in Nairobi Nairobi's Nyayo National Stadium, where Javelin thrower Julius Yego stole the...

Seventeen-year-old Robert Biwott put on an exhibition of front-running prowess, comfortably leading from the gun and extending his lead to 50 metres on his way to a 3:36.77 championship record in the 1500m.

Jamaica's Michael O'Hara gained redemption for finishing outside of the 100m medals on Thursday (11) by scorching to a 20.63 world youth lead and a narrow victory.