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The IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 will take place between 10-18 August, and the world's greatest athletes are starting to converge on the Russian capital as they attempt to be crowned as global champions. Now fans...

Can anyone stop Allyson Felix landing her fourth world 200m crown?

Olá meus amigos! (Hello my friends!) I hope you are all doing well. This time I'm writing to you from Moscow!

Unlike their male counterparts, the world's top women in the 100m do not shy away from racing each other on the international circuit, but that doesn't make it any easier to predict the winner at major championships.

The 49th edition of the IAAF Congress, the highest decision-making body of the association, met today at the Crowne Plaza at Moscow's World Trade Center for the second and final session of its biennial two-day gathering ...

He is not the defending champion, but it seems the Moscow 2013 men's 100 gold medal is Usain Bolt's to lose.

Watch Christine Ohuruogu and Nicola Sanders complete a surprise one-two in the final of the 400m at the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka.

BBC Sport looks back at some of the most memorable moments from the World Athletics Championships, as the 2013 competition begins in Moscow on Saturday.

Former world champion Colin Jackson and 800m runner Jenny Meadows give their verdicts on Britain's World Athletics Championships medal hopefuls

Watch Steve Cram win gold in the final of the 1500m at the 1983 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki.

Dai Greene beats Javier Culson of Cuba to the line in the 400m hurdles to win gold for Great Britain at the 2011 World Championships in South Korea.

The 14th edition of the IAAF World Championships, Moscow 2013 will be the fourth occasion where the IAAF has employed an Injuries and Illnesses Surveillance Study at the biennial World Championships, which is the pinnacl...

Last season, the men's 110m Hurdles was all about the brilliance of Aries Merritt but the 2013 campaign has been much less clear cut and at least half a dozen top athletes will have designs on winning the gold medal in M...

If you want consistency, don't look for it in the 400m Hurdles: not this year, at least.

The eagerly-awaited IAAF World Championships are set to open in Moscow's historic Luzhniki Stadium on Saturday and will continue until 18 August.

The Borlee brothers are perhaps the most famous twins in athletics at the moment, and the 400m runners are set to make history at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

Last year, Sally Pearson was close to unbeatable in the 100m Hurdles, but after picking up an early-season injury in May this year, Australia's London 2012 Olympic Games champion has found herself in a race against time ...

Amantle Montsho attempts to become only the second athlete in history - the other being Australian great Cathy Freeman in 1997 and 1999 - to land back-to-back women's 400m titles at the IAAF World Championships and she w...

Few athletes in the world this year have been as dominant as Zuzana Hejnova.

This morning during the second day's working session of the 49th IAAF Congress, the following statement on Anti-Doping issued by the IAAF Council was approved by acclamation.

The current world's number one over 1500m, Sweden's Abeba Aregawi, who runs for the Stockholm-based club Hammarby IF, will compete over 800m at DN Galan meeting at 22 August.

Former athlete Paula Radcliffe expresses concern that the 'very core' of athletics is threatened by doping scandals