Athletics News

The two-lap list is led by phenomenal Sahily Diago, of the strong Cuban team. Diago's Area junior record of 1:57.74, set in Havana in May, is the second fastest time in 2014 by any female athlete regardless of age.

Swedish 3000m steeplechase record holder Charlotta Fougberg has confirmed that she will compete over the barriers at the DN Galan meeting in Stockholm, the 11th of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League meetings, on 21 August.

With just three days to go before the start of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, which takes place in Eugene from 22 to 27 July August, brief previews for all 44 events have been published.

IAAF President Lamine Diack will be one of two recipients of the 2014 Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Merit Awards, the organisation announced on Friday.

After becoming the first junior athlete to legally break the 10-second barrier with his 9.97 winning time at the 2014 NCAA Championships, a world junior record pending ratification, Trayvon Bromell wants to also leave hi...

Despite running the fastest time for a junior in 11 years in Lausanne recently, Ronald Kwemoi was not included in the Kenyan team and he will concentrate on the African Championships next month.

Anguilla's Zharnel Hughes and USA's Trentavis Friday are set do battle for the gold, with Friday looking to become the third American to win the title and the first one since 1988.

Having run in the 2012 final, where he finished fifth as well as picking up a bronze medal in the 4x400m two years ago, world leader and national junior record holder Machel Cedenio wants to emulate his fellow Trinidadia...

Alfred Kipketer, the 2013 world youth champion who leads the 2014 junior list with his hand-timed 1:44.2 in Nairobi, and Timothy Cheruiyot could restore Kenya's successful tradition in this event, with their countrymen h...

Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith and USA's Kaylin Whitney, in addition to meeting each other in the 100m, will face off again at 200m.

List leader Kendall Baisden, from the USA, at 50.46 is the leading entrant in the long sprint, with six of the top ten junior times in 2014 and a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships, which was also held at Haywa...

This is the most successful event ever for Kenya at the IAAF World Junior Championships - with a Kenyan having won every time since the distance was extended to 3000m in 1988 - and Titus Kibiego and Barnabas Kipyegon, th...

Dawit Seyaum and Gudaf Tsegay, both from Ethiopia, have the five fastest junior times this year between them, led by Seyaum's 3:59.53 set while winning in Marrakesh in early June, a time which moved the 2013 African juni...

The only junior to have run under 28 minutes so far in 2014 is Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, who ran 27:56.26 in the Dutch town of Leiden last month.

World leader Wilhem Belocian and David Omoregie have both shown superb form this year with times of 13.15 and 13.17 respectively.

This is the most successful event ever for Kenya at the IAAF World Junior Championships - with a Kenyan having won every time since the distance was extended to 3000m in 1988 - and Titus Kibiego and Barnabas Kipyegon, th...

On a night of pulsating action at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco's Stade Louis II, once again the men's high jump took centre stage on Friday (18).

The provisional entry lists for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon, are now available.

It looks like being all USA in this event with Kendell Williams holding the two fastest times in 2014, both under 13 seconds. She set an Area junior record of 12.87 set at Hayward Field last month when winning the nation...

The rivalry between Kenya and Ethiopia in the endurance events perhaps reaches a peak at this distance.

After finishing down in eighth place in the 2012 final, Kenya's Moses Mukono has his experience at this level to fall back on. On paper, he is more than 10 seconds quicker than his nearest rival in Eugene after running 1...

Caterine Ibarguen produced the best triple jump of the last six years to earn a dramatic victory at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco's Stade Louis II, registering 15.31m to put her fifth on the world all-time li...