Athletics News

The new event on the IAAF World Relays programme replaces the 4x1500m and sees teams sending runners out on legs of 1200m, 400m, 800m, 1600m.

This is the event the home crowd will be waiting for, and brings possibly The Bahamas' one realistic chance of victory.

Last year, Kenya fulfilled its role as favourite and took the victory but they made astonishing hard work of it with an erratic race which showed tactical naivety and inexperience at relay running over this distance, so ...

Last year, the Jamaican quartet of Nickel Ashmeade, Warren Weir, Jermaine Brown and Yohan Blake flew to a world record of 1:18.63, breaking a 20-year-old mark held by a famed Santa Monica Track Club team, to provide one ...

Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix are set to go head-to-head over one lap of the track at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene on 30 May, after the meeting organisers announced their women's 400m field on Wednes...

The latest IAAF / Nestlé Healthy Kids' Athletics event in Morocco was staged in the historic village of Tafoughalte, in the north-east of the country, and local children between the ages of six and 14 were put through t...

London 2012 Olympic Games 20km race walk champion Chen Ding will be the star attraction in the 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Taicang and aiming to maintain local walkers' dominance in the Chinese southeast city on ...

This year's ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo celebrates the 50th Anniversary Dream Mile and the IAAF Diamond League meeting director Steinar Hoen has assembled what is arguably the deepest and most highly-regarded field ...

Usain Bolt, the fastest man on earth, will compete at the Golden Spike in Ostrava on 26 May in what will be his seventh appearance at the IAAF World Challenge meeting.

The USA has put forward one half of last year's winning 4x100m team and reinforced it with two athletes who have won multiple medals at global championships.

Three of the four women who led USA to 4x200m victory in Nassau last year will return to the Bahamian capital.

It is difficult to look past a 4x400m squad that includes four women who have won Olympic titles in the event.

Their team might be lacking their two star performers from last year, but the USA is still the overwhelming favourite to win the women's 4x800m in Nassau.

European 200m champion Adam Gemili will line up for a pre-World Championships showdown with some of the world's best sprinters at the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on 24-25 July, the Londo...

Kenya's Bedan Karoki will defend his title at the Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon on 17 May, the IAAF Silver Label Road Race organisers announced on Tuesday (28).

World 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu will return to London's Olympic Stadium to compete in July's Anniversary Games.