Athletics News

World record-holder and Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie is yet to win a world title. His previous three attempts ended up with bronze medals, so can the in-form Frenchman break that trend in Beijing?

Lord Coe and Sergey Bubka are urged to focus on anti-doping if elected president of athletics' world governing body, the IAAF.

We get to know Team GB athletes including Dina Asher-Smith and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey as they reveal something about themselves we didn't know.

Qatar's world indoor champion Mutaz Essa Barshim, one of the most recognisable faces in the sport after his stunning performances in 2014, may lead this year's list having jumped 2.41m both indoors and out earlier in the...

Experience versus youth will provide a fascinating back drop to what could prove an absorbing high jump competition inside the Bird's Nest Stadium.

A women's pole vault campaign which was meandering along with little plotline has suddenly exploded into life over the past few weeks thanks to Yarisley Silva.

It may be his first outdoor global championships, but Jeffery Henderson heads to Beijing as the marginal favourite in the long jump.

As a 19-year-old just over a decade ago, the then Tianna Madison pulled off one of the big upsets of the 2005 IAAF World Championships when she defied the cool and damp conditions prevalent in Helsinki that night to fly ...

The IAAF Ethics Commission will hold its second meeting in Beijing on 18 and 19 August 2015, to coincide with the presidential and other elections of the IAAF and the World Championships.

The last time Caterine Ibarguen lost was more than three years ago, when she had to settle for the silver medal in the final of the Olympic Games on 5 August 2012.

Setting a world record at an IAAF World Championships is an extremely rare feat.