Athletics News

Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha, world high jump champion Bogdan Bondarenko and European indoor 400m champion Pavel Maslak are among the first athletes signed up to compete at the Golden Spike IAAF World Challenge me...

Former 400m world champion Amantle Montsho is banned for two years for doping at last year's Commonwealth Games.

Bernard Koech crossed the finish-line in second place at last year's NN Marathon Rotterdam. On 12 April he will be back at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in the hope of improving on that performance.

Having dominated their races at the National Cross Country Championships last month, Chris Derrick and Laura Thweatt are among the USA's best hopes at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 on 28 March.

Four of Ethiopia's medallists from the last edition of the championships will compete at this month's IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 on 28 March.

Abbott World Marathon Majors (AWMM) is working in partnership with the IAAF to finance increased out-of-competition drug testing for elite athletes participating in AWMM events.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, and only the second time in history, the IAAF World Indoor Championships will be held in the United States.

The event that birthed Jamaican stars such as Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Yohan Blake, to name just a few, goes global this year with its pay-per-view stream.