Athletics News

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Hurdler Jack Green withdraws from the GB squad for the World Championships in Beijing with a severe bout of sciatica.

Great Britain race walker Tom Bosworth hopes international success will inspire more people to take up the discipline.

Britain's Mo Farah says he "never doubts himself" as he prepares to defend his world championship titles in Beijing amidst doping allegations regarding his coach Alberto Salazar.

The IAAF Council - both members of the current Council and also those of the incoming Council which will take office at the end of the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 - met with the Executive Board of the Internat...

The IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 gets under way in the Chinese capital on Saturday (22), and you can follow all the action on the IAAF website.

So much has been written about Allyson Felix's individual event options in Beijing - 200m, 400m or both - that it is easy to overlook the possibility that she could leave the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 with t...

Christian Taylor is back at the top of the triple jump. The US jumper won the world title in Daegu four years ago and followed that with an Olympic title in London in 2012, but after his fourth-place finish in Moscow in ...

Jenny Simpson is approaching the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 as one of the medal contenders in the 1500m. With the first round in this event set to get underway on the first day of the competition, Saturday 22...

Jamaica's long-held dominance of global 4x100m running could be under threat by a resurgent USA.

Jamaica won last time in Moscow, and again at the IAAF World Relays in May this year. The USA are the world leaders and reigning Olympic champions.

Another bout of the USA vs The Bahamas rivalry with possible interference from Trinidad and Tobago and the Belgian Tornados - that is the forecast for the 4x400m final in Beijing.

Two years ago, the women's 4x400m produced one of the best finishes of the championships as Russia's Antonina Krivoshapka held off Francena McCorory of the USA all the way around the final lap to the delight of a partisa...

Race walking might be one of the host continent's strongest areas in athletics, but no Asian man has ever won the gold medal in the 20km race walk at the IAAF World Championships.

Organising the travel and accommodation for more than 2000 athletes, officials and coaches at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 as the IAAF competitions co-ordinator is a far from easy task.

Members of Great Britain's World Athletics Championships team reveal who among them is the funniest and the best dressed.

Hosts China have a number of hopes for a medal on home soil at the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 but their best is probably world record-holder Liu Hong.

Defending champion Robert Heffernan from Ireland has shown little form to indicate whether he is in shape to successfully defend his title, but the resilient 37-year-old believes he has shrugged off the niggling injuries...