Athletics News

Dawn Harper Nelson has led the world list in 2014 since 5 July with the 12.44 she clocked at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris.

US record holder Emma Coburn beat her arch rival, world leader Hiwot Ayalew, to take eight points for Team Americas in the first track event of day two, avenging her defeat from two months ago when the two met at the IAA...

Anita Wlodarczyk kept the women's hammer throw title firmly in Europe's hands after her dominating victory that kicked off the field event action on day two at Le Grand Stade in Marrakech.

Running on slippery streets in strong rain at the Mattoni Usti nad Labem Half Marathon, Ethiopia's Adugna Takele and Kenya's Correti Jepkoech took top honours at the IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Sunday (14).

World leader and Diamond Race winner Jairus Birech finished off his stellar steeplechase season with another victory in the stadium where he won at the African Championships last month, clocking 8:13.18 to finish ahead o...

Uganda may have dominated the medal table but the star of the show at the the 30th edition of the World Mountain Running Championships was Austria's Andrea Mayr who became the first runner to clinch five world titles in ...

Will Claye went into the competition with IAAF Continental Cup points already on the board, having finished second to Ignisous Gaish in the long jump on Saturday. The 2013 World Championship bronze medallist also started...

Tiffany Porter sets a new British record of 12.51 seconds in the 100m hurdles at the IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech.

Oscar Pistorius is unlikely to be invited to future Diamond League events, the promoter of the series' Brussels meet says.

The men's high jump had been billed as one of the focal points of this weekend in Marrakech and it certainly proved to be the top field event on Saturday.

Two-time world champion David Storl took a dominating victory in the men's shot put to collect maximum points for Team Europe.

As expected Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia took top honours in the triple jump, the first woman to ever take the World Cup or Continental Cup title for Team Americas.

Veronica Campbell-Brown took a convincing victory in the women's 100m to lead Team Americas to a second successive IAAF Continental Cup one-two finish.

World leader Francena McCorory and Jamaica's Novlene Williams-Mills lived up to expectations as they notched up maximum points for Team Americas, finishing first and second respectively ahead of Europe's Italian represen...

Kaliese Spencer rounded off her near perfect season with a peerless performance in the 400m hurdles, adding an IAAF Continental Cup title to the Commonwealth Games gold medal she won earlier this summer.

For just over three quarters of the women's sprint relay, it was a neck-and-neck affair between the half-Jamaican, half-US Americas team and the all-British Europe quartet.

All season long, until the final week in August, 2013 world champion Eunice Sum had been the dominant force among the planet's pre-eminent female two-lap runners.

At 24, Sandra Perkovic has already won World, Olympic and European titles. First place in the IAAF Continental Cup, however, continues to elude the Croatian who has otherwise taken a global stranglehold on her event over...

It took her three rounds to come to life, but when she did Barbora Spotakova showed her class to take the expected eight points for Europe in an event that's only twice been won by non-Europeans.

This was Fabiana Murer's third attempt to land the top prize in the IAAF Continental Cup or World Cup.

It was billed as a battle of the Europeans, and Hungary's Olympic champion Krisztian Pars duly delivered top points for Europe. But Egypt's Mostafa El Gamel upset the odds by taking second ahead of Polish record-holder P...

Isiah Koech, still only 20, added his name to an illustrious list of 5000m champions at the IAAF World and Continental Cup, none more so than Morocco's own hero Said Aouita, who won this event at the World Cup in 1989.