Athletics News

Russia's Yuliya Zaripova, the London 2012 Olympic Games and reigning World champion in the women's 3000m Steeplechase, has sadly had to withdraw from the 2013 IAAF World Championships through injury.

The IAAF Council met with the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee at the Radisson Royal Hotel in Moscow on Friday (9), ahead of the start of the IAAF World Championships on Saturday.

The figures are instantly recognisable to athletics aficionados: 9.58, 19.19, 8.95m and 18.29m. They are, of course, a quartet of iconic world record marks set at the IAAF World Championships.

Galen Rupp took 10,000m silver behind Farah in 2012 but they fear Kenyans and Ethiopians 'are gunning for us more than ever' Nike Olympics HQ in London, the evening before the men's 10,000m final. Sharp suits mingle with...

United States has won three straight World Championships gold medals in the last three editions of the IAAF World Championships in the women's 4x400m relay and they are the top pick in these Championships as well.

Once again, much of the pre-race attention will be thrust on the familiar Jamaica v USA battle with the Caribbean nation seeking to maintain their recent dominance and secure a hat-trick of World titles.

Last summer's London 2012 Olympic Games witnessed one of the all-time surprises in this event as the Bahamas (population 347,000) defeated the behemoth of this event, the USA (population 313 million), to win the gold med...

Can 17-year-old Yoshihide Kiryu become Asia's first sprinting superstar?

Former world champion Steve Cram on whether anyone can topple Britain's Mo Farah in Saturday's 10,000m final