Athletics News

No one saw it coming, not even Rushwal Samaai himself, but the Commonwealth and African bronze medallist shattered his long jump PB to provide the top performance of the South African Championships in Stellenbosch.

Two US road-running records were broken on Saturday (18), as Molly Huddle and Ben True won the women's and men's elite races at the BAA 5k, kicking off the Boston Marathon weekend.

Meb Keflezighi knows that the combination of factors which led to his emotional victory in last year's Boston Marathon is unlikely to come together again on Monday (20) at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race.

They may have a population of 1.4billion, but China has never managed to get a sprinter into a 100m, 200m or 400m final across the past 14 editions of the IAAF World Championships.

France has named teams in all six sprint-based events for the IAAF/BTC World Relays, Bahamas 2015, along with a women's distance medley relay team.

Having missed the past two full seasons due to injury and childbirth, Germany's two-time World Championships medallist Jennifer Oeser intends to compete at the Erdgas Mehrkampf-Meeting in Ratingen on 27-28 June, the mid-...