Athletics News

No athlete sets out to be an indoor specialist. Not even athletes such as Genzebe Dibaba, who has broken multiple world indoor records and has won two world indoor titles.

Shifting gears with less than 300 metres to go, China's Ma Zhenxia stormed to victory in the girls' 5000m race walk at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on Saturday morning (18) to add the world youth title t...

With a swift injection of pace 700 metres from home, Russia's Sergey Shirobokov powered away from China's long-time leader Jun Zhang to take victory in the boys' 10,000m race walk, the 16-year-old coming home a clear win...

On an unforgettable day for global 1500m running, Kumari Taki ensured day three of the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 would also be ignited by a stellar metric mile performance as he smashed the boys' champion...

Propelled by a gutsy run down the home straight, Christopher Taylor powered to an impressive victory in the boys' 400m to secure Jamaica's first gold medal at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015.

In what was a wide-open, mistake-laden race, it was France's Matteo Ngo who kept his head when many around him were losing theirs and took victory in a blanket finish in the boys' 110m hurdles at the IAAF World Youth Cha...

Capped by an 84.91m championship record throw, Hlib Piskunov produced the most dominating hammer throw victory in the history of the IAAF World Youth Championships.

With a dominant display of jumping, Czech Republic's Michaela Hruba confirmed her vast potential when winning her first major international title in the girls' high jump at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 o...

In a textbook demonstration of how to pace the perfect 400m race, Salwa Eid Naser stormed to a memorable gold medal for Bahrain in a world-leading time and lifetime best of 51.50 at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Ca...

Pre-championships favorite Christian Atanay Napoles lived up his billing with a convincing victory in the triple jump on Friday (17), the fourth for Cuba in the event at the IAAF World Youth Championships.

Monaco is not the exclusive reserve for great 1500m racing today!

Cuba's Adriana Rodriguez produced two personal bests on day one of the girls' heptathlon on Friday (17) to lead the field overnight, the 16-year-old leaving pre-event favourites Alina Shukh of Ukraine and Sarah Lagger of...

When Caterine Ibarguen competed at the inaugural edition of the IAAF World Youth Championships in 1999, that she would one day be sitting on the sport's longest win streak as an elite athlete and a reigning world champio...

Polish shot putter talent Konrad Bukowiecki provided the highlight from the first two days of competition at the European Junior Championships held in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna.

The evening's proceedings had only just begun when Joe Kovacs broke the Herculis meeting record with his first throw at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday (17).