Athletics News

Robert Harting's IAAF World Championships victory celebrations ended a bit earlier this time than on previous occasions in Berlin 2009 and Daegu 2011.

Long jumpers usually don't like morning qualifying rounds and so quite a few had problems getting their motors started on Wednesday as only three men went over the automatic qualifying distance of 8.10m.

There have been a number of possible winners talked up in the men's 400m Hurdles.

• Olympic champion refuses to blame hamstring injury• Overlooked British rival Chris Tomlinson vents anger on twitter After Greg Rutherford's annus horribilis - which culminated in failure to qualify for the world ch...

The fifth IAAF Ambassadors Press Conference featured the Triple Jump World record holder, 2000 Olympic Games champion and double World champion Jonathan Edwards, and former 800m World record holder and three-time World c...

Irish race walking hero Robert Heffernan came up with the biggest triumph of his life on Russian soil, the home turf of his biggest rivals, at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow when he set a 2013 world lead of 3:37:...

Thursday's competition at the IAAF World Championships here in Moscow will see more Russian athletes in action on the same apron where Yelena Isinbayeva won her memorable third title on Tuesday.

There was a reason why LaShawn Merritt ran the fifth-fastest 400m of all-time at the IAAF World Championships on Tuesday, according to the American's coach.

Milcah Chemos finally delivered on her promise to win an IAAF World Championships 3000m Steeplechase title, albeit at the third attempt after winning back-to-back bronze medals in Berlin 2009 and Daegu 2011.

Twenty-two women ran the heats of the 5000m on Wednesday morning in the Luzhniki Stadium.

Robert Heffernan cast aside a history of fourth-place finishes and broke a 30-year Irish men's gold medal drought when he won the 50km Race Walk on Wednesday morning.

At many major championships, the heats of the men's 1500m has its fair share of trips, falls and shock exits. But there was none of that this morning in the first round of the event as the three men with sub-3:30 PBs won...

The yellow and blue clad Ukraine supporters massed in the main stand of the Luzhniki Stadium made all the difference to their heptathlete Ganna Melnichenko as she knocked three seconds off her best time in the concluding...

Katarina Johnson-Thompson discusses her "storming" fifth-place finish in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships.

• Rutherford refuses to blame hamstring injury for failure• Overlooked British rival Chris Tomlinson vents anger on twitter Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford is out of the World Championships after falling s...

Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford says it is "amazing how different a year can be" after failing to qualify for the final at the World Championships in Moscow.

A comeback gold for veteran pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva finally gives the World Athletics Championships its 'Super Saturday' moment

Thirty years to the day, BBC athletics commentator Steve Cram recalls how he became world champion at the first World Championships

Double silver medallist Matt Elias tips Welsh pair Dai Greene and Rhys Williams for medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

They came, they saw, they went home happy.

The Sydney 2000 Olympics will be remembered for Cathy Freeman's gold on 'Magic Monday'. Last year's Olympic Games saw Jessica Ennis-Hill take gold on 'Super Saturday'. And now another poster girl for a global championshi...

When the athletes on the start line for women's 400m Hurdles semi-finals were announced to the crowd, one of them drew a significantly bigger reaction than any other - Natalya Antyukh of Russia.