Athletics News

For the second successive edition, the British team topped the medal table at the European Junior Championships in the Swedish city of Eskilstuna, which came to a conclusion on Sunday (19).

Candace Hill routed the opposition in the girls' 200m final on Sunday (19) to win her second gold medal of the week at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 with the American's winning time of 22.43 - run into a ...

World junior champion Morgan Lake leads the way as Britain equal their best tally of European Junior Championships gold medals.

With a last-gasp, eyeballs-out, surge down the home straight, Ethiopia's Bedatu Hirpa powered past Bahrain's Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa to win gold in the girls' 1500m at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on Satu...

Willy Tarbei and Kipyegon Bett were a long way ahead of their nearest rivals on form coming into the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 and the pair lived up to expectations by securing Kenya's first 1-2 in this e...

Past winners of the girls' 400m hurdles title include Zuzana Hejnova and Jana Pittman, who both went on to scoop senior world titles and there will be a rising sense of anticipation that the latest holder, Sydney McLaugh...

As expected, world youth leader Sofiya Galkina emerged victorious in the girls' hammer throw but Russia's first gold medal in the event didn't lack some late hour drama at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on...

A vociferous and passionate section of the crowd decked in Azzurri blue were sent into ecstasy as Stefano Sottile equalled his boys' world-leading mark of 2.20m to claim a pulsating victory at the IAAF World Youth Champi...

Fitting well into an evening when dominating victories in the field events was the norm, Sweden's Elienor Werner produced a commanding victory in the girls' pole vault winning no less than 21cm at the IAAF World Youth Ch...

USA's Norman Grimes produced one of the most dominating 400m hurdles performances in IAAF World Youth Championships history as he crushed the field to win by more than a second before a high energy crowd at Pascual Guerr...

Talk of the great Cuban triple jump school has been prevalent both here in Cali and in the wider athletics community this season, yet the Romanian school in clearly not too shabby after Georgiana Iuliana Anitei secured h...

With a crouch, a spin and a truly explosive release, Werner Visser produced a huge 64.24m throw in the third round of the boys' discus at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 on Saturday night (18).

When it comes to the high jump, size matters. Never was that more in evidence than on Friday night in Cali, Colombia as Czech high jumper Michaela Hruba, who stands at 1.88m in her socks, confirmed her sizeable reputatio...