Athletics News

Nigel Levine says he is happy to let his opponents worry about his form going into the World Indoor Championships.

Birmingham high jumper Tom Parsons tells BBC WM getting a part-time job has helped take the financial pressure off him and allowed him to be a lot more relaxed about his athletics.

Durham athlete Kate Avery tells BBC Sport that she cannot work out why British Athletics contacted her about selection for the World Indoor Athletics Championships for it then to transpire that she could not in fact be p...

The coolest weather in almost 20 years this week means that runners in the Standard Chartered Hong Marathon on Sunday (16) could have their most temperate weather since the IAAF Silver Label Road Race was re-launched in ...

The annual meeting between the IAAF and the presidents and general secretaries of the six Area Associations took place over two days in Monaco (2-3 Feb).

Uganda's Abraham Kiplimo won the 63rd annual Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon in 2:09:23, and IAAF Silver Label Road Race, on Sunday (2).

Following in the footsteps of Renaud Lavillenie and Genzebe Dibaba indoors on Saturday, the world records continued to fall this weekend as Kenya's Florence Kiplagat stopped the clock in 1:05:12 at the eDreams Mitja Mara...

Almensch Belete took the spoils on home soil at the sixth leg of the Lotto CrossCup in Rotselaar, Belgium, on Sunday (16).

Ireland's leading distance runner, Fionnuala Britton, has confirmed her participation in this year's SPAR Great Ireland Run 10k, which will take place on the roads of the Phoenix Park in Dublin on Sunday 6 April, organis...

Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa won the 2014 RAK Half Marathon in 59:36, while no less than eight men came home under the hour in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, on Friday morning (14).

Just five days after breaking the world indoor 1500m record, Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba smashed the world indoor 3000m record* at Stockholm's XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, with a stunning 8:16.60 run on Thursda...

Genzebe Dibaba will go for her third world record in a 14 days when she runs over two miles at the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix, the final IAAF Indoor Permit meeting this winter, in Birmingham on Saturday (15).

Eleni Gebrehiwot's margin of supremacy wasn't as decisive as last year but the German-based Ethiopian still ran out a dominant winner at the ING Eurocross in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday (9).

Genzebe Dibaba made it three from three in 15 days as she produced her third breath-taking world record performance to bring the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix to a scintillating climax in the British city of Birmingham o...

Some shrewd investing by Ethiopian runners Feyera Gemeda and Rehima Kedir paid off handsomely when they won at the 2014 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Sunday (16).

High jumpers hit the heights and provided the headlines at the 2014 Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou, China, this weekend (15/16), with Qatar's 2013 IAAF World Championships silver medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim clea...

German runners have a distinguished record in the women's race at the ING Eurocross in Diekirch and Sabrina Mockenhaupt will be in contention to become the fourth German winner at the IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting on...

Her big sister Tirunesh has twice been a world record breaker indoors and it was the turn Genzebe Dibaba to make her own mark on the under cover record books when she smashed the women's world indoor 1500m record by more...

British Athletics today confirmed that the UK's two-day IAAF Diamond League meeting will not be held in London this year and will instead be staged at Hampden Park in Glasgow on 11-12 July.

Almost immediately as Abeba Aregawi had finished the 1500m at last year's XL-Galan, having missed the world indoor record by an agonising 12 hundredths of a second, she decided to return to the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting...

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has set her sights on the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, next month after a spectacular weekend at the British Athletics Indoor Championships in Sheffield where she broke the ...

Kenya's 2003 world 5000m champion Eliud Kipchoge will run the ABN AMRO Rotterdam Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on 13 April.