Athletics News

Coming fresh from Berlin where she set a world record of 79.58m, Anita Wlodarzcyk is the big favourite. The Polish thrower is enjoying an amazing season, first setting a PB of 78.76m to win the European title, then setti...

Haile Gebrselassie is to defend his title at the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run in Glasgow on Sunday 5 October, organisers for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced on Thursday (11).

The IAAF is very saddened to hear of the death of Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the flame at the 1964 Olympic Games when he was 19. He died of a brain haemorrhage at a Tokyo hospital early Wednesday morning (10) at the age of...

For the second year in succession, Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk won the women's IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, while Krisztian Pars beat last year's winner Pawel Fajdek in the men's contest.

As the scene of the past five men's world records, it's no surprise that once again some of the world's best runners will be taking part in the BMW Berlin Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on 28 September.

Marathon world record-holder Wilson Kipsang will headline a stacked men's field on 2 November at the TCS New York City Marathon, while two-time world champion Edna Kiplagat and fellow Kenyan Mary Keitany are in the women...

Kenyan runners have dominated the men's race of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon for more than a decade as the past 12 champions of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race have all come from Kenya.

Conventional wisdom would give a strong advantage to the European, African and Asia-Pacific squads, given that they're comprised of national teams. But that in itself isn't reason enough to simply rule out the Americas t...

If it all comes down to the last event, then this could be the most important race of the weekend.

Botswana's Nijel Amos is the man to beat this season. The 20-year-old leads the world with his 1:42.45 clocking at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco, and later confirmed his shape by winning the Commonwealth and ...

Deprived of the continent's biggest throwers, Piotr Malachowski and Robert Harting, Europe has turned to former world and Olympic champion Gerd Kanter and Poland's Robert Urbanek to maintain their dominance of the discus...

With the world's top two throwers at their disposal, Europe will be banking on maximum points from the men's hammer.

The top four jumpers on this year's world list will clash in Marrakech, and the talent-stacked event will be one of the highlights of the IAAF Continental Cup.

In the absence of Olympic champion Greg Rutherford, world indoor silver medallist Li Jinzhe has become a marginal favourite to win the long jump.

Renaud Lavillenie, one of the sport's biggest stars, will start here as the man to beat.

The men's shot put is an event not lacking in star power.

Will Claye starts as a strong favourite for the Americas team. The US athlete has jumped 17.75m this season and is the only man in the field to have ventured beyond 17.50m in 2014.

It's no surprise that the Americas will field the women to beat.

Dawn Harper Nelson finished out of the medals at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow last year, placing fourth behind Brianna Rollins, Sally Pearson and Tiffany Porter. But the 30-year-old US athlete stands on top of ...

The field features the two fastest women of the year: Dutchwoman Sifan Hassan, the European champion who clocked 3:57.00 to win in Paris, and Kenyan Hellen Obiri, who ran 3:57.05 in Eugene and later won the African title...

Dafne Schippers lost her world lead to Allyson Felix's 22.02 clocking at the IAAF Diamond League final in Brussels last Friday, finishing third behind her Europe team-mate in Marrakech, Myriam Soumare of France.

Although she didn't quite live up the lofty hype thrust upon her after producing a pair of sensational world indoor records earlier this year, Genzebe Dibaba has performed admirably over distances ranging from 1500m to 5...