Athletics News

Two weeks prior to the annual gathering of athletics stars at Letzigrund Stadium, organisers of the Weltklasse Zurich have announced the star cast for the men's 400m, 800m, and 1500m for the first of the IAAF Diamond Lea...

Aries Merritt ended the 2012 season as the Olympic champion and world record-holder. In the space of a month, he had achieved his two biggest career goals. He was at the top of his game and poised to go on to greater thi...

Usain Bolt gave a warning to his rivals that he is not about to surrender his seven-year reign as the undisputed boss of men's sprinting by declaring the "new improved" Usain Bolt is "ready" to compete at the IAAF World ...

IAAF President Lamine Diack took to the stage for the last IAAF World Athletics Series pre-event press conference of his presidency ahead of the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 in the Chinese National Convention C...

Defending 100m and 200m champion Usain Bolt is "sad" questions about doping are taking centre stage before the World Championships.

Only once in the history of the IAAF World Championships has the world record-holder won the men's marathon: 1983, when Rob de Castella ran 2:10:03 for the victory, nearly two minutes slower than his 2:08:18 world mark f...

Two days before the start of the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 to of the expected stars of the upcoming competition, Kenya middle distance great David Rudisha and US sprinter Tori Bowie, had a chance to visit th...

Wilson Kipsang says that the memory of Sammy Wanjiru's wonderful victory in the Beijing 2008 Olympic marathon will be in the minds of the Kenyan runners who take to the same Beijing streets for Saturday morning's maratho...

Three years after winning Olympic gold, Jessica Ennis-Hill is back at a major championship and is feeling good.

After a low-key 2014, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has returned to her best this season as she hunts what would be an unprecedented third women's 100m world crown.

Newly elected IAAF president Lord Coe is a future chief of the International Olympic Committee, says Baroness Grey-Thompson.

Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt has won the past three world titles at this distance, but this time he comes to Beijing from a different angle compared to Berlin, Daegu and Moscow.

Allyson Felix's decision to contest the 400m in Beijing has left the 200m wide open.

With two of the world's fastest three athletes not in attendance in Beijing - Francena McCorory and Sanya Richards-Ross - after failing to make it through the high competitive US trials, the door is ajar for eight-time w...

In the absence of world leader Orlando Ortega, David Oliver will start a tentative favourite in his bid to mount a successful defence of the world 110m hurdles title.

British athletes competing in the World Championships tell BBC Sport about their lucky charms and pre-race rituals.

The three fastest athletes in the field - Sharika Nelvis, Dawn Harper Nelson and Kendra Harrison - represent the USA. Given that the defending champion Brianna Rollins is on the same team, the USA could become the first ...

The 2015 world lists see US hurdlers occupy five of the top six places and any of the quartet that will go to their blocks in Beijing - Bershawn Jackson, Johnny Dutch, Michael Tinsley and Kerron Clement - could conceivab...

The 50th IAAF Congress was concluded with a short half-day session at the Chinese National Convention Centre in Beijing on Thursday (20).

Will the final turn into a duel between Zuzana Hejnova and Kaliese Spencer, or will there be a breakthrough from one of the emerging stars?

To diligently prepare for many months before delivering on the biggest stage is not the exclusive reserve for the 2000 competing athletes in Beijing; it will also be the same approach adopted by many of the hundreds of r...

For Steve Rose, Getty Images Director of Photography for Sport, the IAAF World Championships has always been "a big one" on his schedule of major events. The forthcoming 15th edition in Beijing will be no exception.