Athletics News

Team GB's modern pentathlon director Jan Bartu tells BBC Points West the sport earned the right to remain in the Olympics with its success at London 2012.

Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt wins the 100m in 9.85 seconds in the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium.

Great Britain's 4x100m women's relay team run their fastest time since the 2001 World Championships to win the Anniversary Games.

The International Association of Athletics Federations is delighted to announce that the 1st IAAF World Athletics Forum will be held on the first day of the 49th IAAF Congress in Moscow, Russia.

Britain's Perri Shakes-Drayton runs a personal best to finish second to Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic in the 400m hurdles at the Anniversary Games.

The Anniversary Games will raise more than £9m for British Athletics, according to chief executive Niels De Vos.

Mo Farah speaks to BBC Sport's Phil Jones about his return to the Olympic Stadium for the London Anniversary Games.

Rolling report: Olympians hope to repeat their heroics of London 2012 as the Diamond League meeting brings them back to Stratford. Join Jacob Steinberg Jacob Steinberg

• World championship place at stake for injured heptathlete• Mo Farah keeps people guessing over David Moorcroft record Jessica Ennis-Hill will use Saturday's Anniversary Games as a make-or-break test to determine he...

Tatyana McFadden made it a spectacular five out of five gold medals - with one event still to go - as she won the 1,500m and 100m events T54 at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, On Thursday (25).

The final day of Russian Championships in Moscow saw an outstanding women's 1500m won by London 2012 Olympic Games 3000m Steeplechase winner Yulia Zaripova, who won her first national title at the distance in an impressi...

The IAAF World Championships in Moscow next month will see plenty of celebrations for the 30th anniversary for one of the world's leading sports event.

Kenya's Geoffrey Kipsang, heads a strong field of runners for the 14th edition of the Media Maratón de Bogotá, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, that will take place through the streets of the Colombian capital on Sunday (...

Almost a year to the day since the start of the London 2012 Olympics, athletes return to the Olympic stadium

Team GB hurdler Lawrence Clarke believes the Olympic legacy from London 2012 is being put in jeopardy because of the drugs scandal emerging from athletics.

Usain Bolt has recognised that athletics has been damaged by doping claims but reasserted that he is clean Usually when Usain Bolt is asked about drugs, his answers become mantras. He is more tested than other athletes. ...

Rhys Williams aims to continue his impressive 400m hurdles results at the Anniversary Games, achieved despite having to take on part-time work.

• 'I can't quite believe it, I've come back with a bronze'• Ireland's Jason Smyth wins second gold in T13 100m Britain's Holly Neill won bronze in the women's F41 discus at the world championships in Lyon. Neill, 24,...

Olympic and World champion Sally Pearson believes she can retain her 100m Hurdles title at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow next month despite struggling to find top form following her hamstring injury earlier...

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The Anti-Doping Statistics for tests carried out in 2012 under the direct authority of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have been published on the IAAF website.