Athletics News

Usain Bolt is only 26 and will win many more medals but in terms of running ultra-fast 100m times he may have already peaked It seemed faintly heretical to think it on Friday night, amid the decibels and worship-delirium...

Greatest sprinter the world has seen may achieve Olympic 'three-peat' but his performance peaks are behind him It seemed faintly heretical to think it on Friday night, amid the decibels and worship-delirium of 65,000 peo...

It was a sensational day for Switzerland on the final day of the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France with Marcel Hug and Edith Wolf both winning gold in the men's and women's T54 Marathon events.

Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt says 19-year-old British sprinter Delano Williams can be an athletics "great".

• Farah believes 600m to 800m race would be fairest • Bolt turned down 400m challenge from David Rudisha Not content with outdoing the world's greatest long-distance runners twice in last year's Olympics and carrying...

Minute-by-minute report: There were victories for Hannah Cockroft, Alan Oliveira and David Weir at the Olympic Stadium Jacob Steinberg

American wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden completed a clean sweep of all her events, and wrote herself into IPC Athletics history by taking an unprecedented six the gold medals at this year's IPC Athletics World Champio...

London's Olympic Stadium witnessed three more world leads and a handful of meeting records on the second day of the London Anniversary Games, a 2013 IAAF Diamond League meeting, topped off by Renaud Lavillenie's 6.02m Po...