Athletics News

Ten athletes will represent the USA at the IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 29 March.

Kenya's Evans Kipkosgei Ruto will return to the TUI Marathon Hannover on 27 April to take on Ethiopia's Mekuant Ayenew at the IAAF Silver Label Road Race.

The Sainsbury's Glasgow Grand Prix, a 2014 IAAF Diamond League meeting, has signed up two of the biggest British names in the sport with double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah and two-time world 400m champion Christi...

Middle distance fans will witness some of Kenya's best athletes in Melbourne later this month at the opening leg of the IAAF World Challenge series on 22 March.

With a trio of sub-7.50 times to his name in 2014, and a best of 7.45, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde starts as favourite.

Ivan Ukhov has been a man on a mission in the wake of his failure to make the podium on home ground at the World Championships in Moscow last August.

A winner at the Russian Winter meeting with 8.30m and in Birmingham with 8.14m, 2013 world champion Aleksandr Menkov heads to Sopot as the man to beat.

An ill-timed injury after his world indoor record of 6.16m in Donetsk means that France's Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie is not able to defend his title won in Istanbul.

Defending champion Ryan Whiting uncorked a stunning 22.23m to win the US title and will have high hopes of matching the gold he won in Istanbul two years ago.

This promises to be one of the most open of the men's events.

A place in the record books beckons Bernard Lagat.

Lalonde Gordon, the Olympic bronze medallist from Trinidad and Tobago, is by far the fastest man among the entrants having run 45.17 this winter.

In the absence of the injured James Dasaolu and Jimmy Vicaut, the emerging young US sprinter Marvin Bracy heads to Sopot bearing the mantle of favourite.

With just two days to go to the start of the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Polish city of Sopot, which will be held between 7-9 March, the IAAF website editorial team have put the spotlight on some of the h...

There is only one favourite in the heptathlon. Ashton Eaton's past three outings in this event have ended in a world record and although there might not be a fourth straight superlative, it is difficult to believe that s...

Three-time world champion Gabriela Szabo has been appointed as the minister of youth and sport in the proposed structure of Romania's new government.

Multiple world record-holder Kenenisa Bekele will clash for the first time with marathon world record-holder Wilson Kipsang on 18 May at the Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race.

Former 10,000m world record-holder and London Marathon director David Bedford collected his OBE today (4) for services to athletics and charity fund-raising.

Kenya, the most successful nation in the history of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, has revealed its team for this year's edition in Copenhagen on 29 March.

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah will compete at Glasgow's Diamond League meeting on 11-12 July.