Athletics News

Five of the greatest high jumpers of all time gathered in front of the media before the 2014 World Athletics Gala in Monaco on Friday (21) to celebrate a season in which the event - and the rivalry between Mutaz Barshim ...

There are many similarities between Heike Drechsler and Marita Koch. Both are from Germany, both are among this year's inductees into the IAAF Hall of Fame, both are former world and Olympic champions, both have set mult...

How Dalton Grant, Commonwealth Games high jump champion in 1998, is helping out League Two side Dagenham & Redbridge.

Beating world record holder David Rudisha to win this year's Commonwealth Games 800m title was the hardest race of Nijel Amos's life, the 20-year-old Botswanan athlete revealed on the eve of the 2014 World Athletics Gala...

Renaud Lavillenie is hoping for the perfect end to his 'perfect year' at the 2014 World Athletics Gala in Monaco on Friday (21), where he is one of three athletes short-listed for the men's Athlete of the Year award.

In addition to being quick on his feet, Warren Weir is an avid football fan and good standard amateur player, cinematographer with ambition of directing his own commercial videos one day and a purveyor of Jamaican cultur...

Hicham El Guerrouj and Robert Korzanowski are among the 2014 inductees into the IAAF Hall of Fame and the two athletics legends faced the press in Monaco on Thursday (20).

Dennis Kimetto is "more than ready" to race for Kenya at next year's IAAF World Championships in Beijing and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the marathon world record-holder said today ahead of the 2014 World Athletics Gala ...