Athletics News

When Kendal Williams clocked a personal best of 10.21 to upset his highly-favoured team-mate and world junior record-holder Trayvon Bromell in the men's 100m final, Bromell himself might have been the least-surprised per...

French hurdler Wilhem Belocian ended a dream junior career on the highest possible note by becoming the first teenager to break the 13-second barrier.

Daisuke Matsunaga confirmed his pre-race favourite status in impressive fashion by taking the 10,000m race walk in a championship record of 39:27.19 at Hayward Field.

As competition began at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, on Tuesday (22), activity also began to ramp up for the three IAAF Ambassadors in Eugene.

Sprinter Christian Malcolm defends banned 400m hurdler Rhys Williams and says Welsh athletics does not have a drugs problem.

Sunderland athlete Alyson Dixon talks about the Commonwealth Games and how Flamingo Land started her career.

England sprinter Richard Kilty hopes to prove his doubters wrong once again as he targets Commonwealth Games success.

Wilhem Belocian carried on the French tradition of producing outstanding hurdlers - think Guy Drut, Ladji Doucoure and the number one man in the world at the moment Pascal Martinot-Lagarde - when he became the first juni...

Russia's Ekaterina Starygina threw 56.85m on her final attempt of the competition to seize women's javelin gold over defending champion Sofi Flink of Sweden.

Wang Jianan led the first Asian men's medal sweep in the history of the IAAF World Junior Championships and in the process he also became the second Chinese athlete to win the long jump world junior title with 8.08m.

Poland's Konrad Bukowiecki tossed the 6kg implement out to national junior record of 22.06m in the second round to set the standard for the men's shot put final, then followed it up with 22.01m in the third and a monster...

The USA's prodigiously talented Mary Cain, a 1500m finalist at last year's IAAF World Championships in Moscow, won her first world title at 3000m here by kicking away from the pack on the last turn to win in 8:58.48, her...

Margaret Nyairera Wambui ran the race of her life, three seconds faster than her previous lifetime best which she set in Wednesday's semifinal, as she won over two laps of the track in 2:00.49.

On the second day of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, when eight gold medals were decided, there was plenty to excite the enthusiastic crowd in Hayward Field and plenty of debate about who should take pr...

Kenya's 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships gold medallists Gladys Cherono and Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor will start as favourites for the 15th edition of the Bogota International Half Marathon on Sunday (27).

Wilhem Belocian, of France, became the first junior athlete to ever run the 110m hurdles in less than 13 seconds when he clocked 12.99 over the 99cm barriers to produce the second world junior record of the IAAF World Ju...

Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe became the eighth Kenyan man to win the world junior 1500m title when he kicked away from his team-mate Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich on the homestretch to reach the finish in 3:40.02.

When Kendal Williams clocked a personal best of 10.21 to upset his highly-favoured team mate and world junior record holder Trayvon Bromell in the men's 100m final, Bromell himself might have been the least-surprised per...

Before the start of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, only two Czech athletes had won gold medals in the 28-year history of the competition.

With 300 metres left to run on a sultry summer's night at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco last Friday (18), Asbel Kiprop realised the pace was too slow to give him any chance of beating Hicham El Guerrouj's 150...

Anezka Drahotova couldn't hide her joy following her world junior record* in the 10,000m race walk, the first of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, but is already setting bigger goals at the senior level.