Athletics News

Watch Justin Gatlin defeat Tyson Gay to win the 200m in a world-leading 19.68 seconds at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco.

USA's Shamier Little, a first year student at Texas A&M University, dominates the 2014 junior list with seven of the eight best performances this year.

This year's world leader and national junior record holder Jaheel Hyde, who ran 49.49 on home soil in Kingston back in March, wants to make history and win Jamaica's first gold in the event, as he did last year by winnin...

Pole vaulter Zoe Brown and 110m hurdler Ben Reynolds are part of the Northern Ireland athletics team heading to the Commonwealth Games.

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Two-time British 1500m champion Laura Weightman says her coach Steve Cram has been vital to her success.

World leader Andrei Skabeika wants to follow the footsteps of his fellow Belarussian Andrei Churyla, winner two years ago.

After a 20-year drought, world leader Matija Muhar is aiming to become the second Slovenian to win a global junior title. He already savoured gold on the world stage last year at the World Youth Championships.

World junior leader Wang Jianan of China and US junior champion Travonn White want to leave their mark in Eugene as their countrymen have in past editions of the World Junior Championships.

At 16, Lazaro Martinez has been a sensation this year, setting a world youth best of 17.24m, which opened doors to a three fine IAAF Diamond League performances.

She hasn't competed on the track this summer - or at least not in a race walking event - but European junior champion Anezka Drahotova is the big favourite to win the 10,000m race walk in Eugene.

The USA are defending champions in this event, but so far the 2014 list is led by a 44.16 run by a Jamaican junior quartet in April.

The long relay has been a US domain for years - 2000 was their last loss - but the USA has not put together a junior team so far in 2014, so the list is led by Cuba (3:36.15), Jamaica (3:37.65), and Nigeria (3:37.68).

Ukraine's Alona Shamotina is the leading junior women's hammer thrower of 2014 with the top two marks and a third in the top ten, her 68.43m throw well away from the rest.

Yorgelis Rodriguez will be one of four defending champions in Eugene, and her heptathlon PB of 6231 in Havana in February is still the leading mark for juniors in 2014 and one of the top ten all-time.

Britain's Morgan Lake has the best mark of all the entrants this year with a 1.93m clearance, but she is only entered in the high jump as a back-up; her main priority is the heptathlon.

Sweden's Sofi Flink is the defending champion and has bested 58 metres twice this year, the only junior woman to reach that far in 2014.

Romania's Florentina Marincu, the world youth champion in both the long and triple jump, reached 6.71m in Bucharest in late June and is justifiably considered the favourite here.

The buzz in the pole vault surrounds Venezuela's Robeilys Peinado, the world youth champion who at 16 has already reached 4.40m.

Turkey's world youth champion Emel Dereli is second on the 2014 junior list with a 17.93m toss, but she will be challenged by China's 2011 world youth champion Guo Tianqian, who has reached 18.08m this season.

The triple jump will be a clash of champions. At 14.07m, Spain's defending world junior champion Ana Peleteiro leads the 2014 junior list, but Florentina Marincu, the double 2013 world youth champion, is also entered, al...

World junior leader Mustafa Amer Ahmed of Egypt wants to become the first African athlete to win a global junior title in the shot put. The 18-year-old threw a national junior record of 21.79m earlier this year to win th...