Athletics News

Uganda's Stephen Kiprotich is the first major name confirmed for the 2014 Bupa Great North Run. The world and Olympic marathon champion will be making his debut at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in Newcastle on 7 Septembe...

Tori Bowie already proved this summer that she has the ability to surprise and she continued that trend at the first European leg of the IAAF Diamond League in Rome on Thursday night (5).

Usain Bolt today confirmed that he won't be competing on 5 July at the 2014 edition of the Meeting Areva, the French stage of the IAAF Diamond League, due to inflammation of his foot.

World half marathon champion Geoffrey Kipsang will take on course record-holder Daniel Chebii on Saturday (7) at the Mattoni Ceske Budejovice, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race.

France's Renaud Lavillenie knows the ExxonMobil Bislett Games well. This year he will return to the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 11 June not only as the world record-holder, but also as the Olympic champion.

For the third time this year, world high jump champion Bohdan Bondarenko will take on Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov when they compete at the Mohammed VI d'Athletisme IAAF World Challenge meeting on 8 June.

"It's been a dream for several years now and I'm glad to be on the European circuit for a couple of races," said Ashton Eaton after arriving in the Netherlands this week for the AA-Drink FBK Games, an IAAF World Challeng...

Six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt delays his return to competitive action after falling behind in training following injury.

Kaliese Spencer continued to consolidate her status as the best 400m hurdler in the world at this early stage in the season with a world-leading run of 53.97 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday (5).

The pre-event publicity mainly centred around the fact that the men's high jump had one of the classier fields ever assembled outside of a major global championship and it lived up to the hype as Qatar's world indoor cha...