Athletics News

On 6 May Doha will play host to the opening meeting of the IAAF Diamond League series for a seventh successive season and, as always, a large number of the world's leading athletes will open their outdoor campaigns in th...

Olympic 1500m medallist Gamze Bulut is provisionally suspended pending an investigation into a possible doping violation.

Only three women in history have jumped higher than US pole vault star Demi Payne. We chat to the 4.90m vaulter on some first things that hold genuine significance to her.

Ecuador's Andres Chocho broke his South American 50km record by more than three minutes while Mexico's Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez and Horacio Nava dominated the 20km on home soil in Ciudad Juarez, the second stop of the IA...

For the third year in a row, Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perkovic opened her season with a throw in excess of 70 metres at the National Winter Throwing Championships in Split.

High jumpers Ruth Beitia of Spain and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy will head to the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 as medal favourites after confidence-boosting victories at their respective national indoor ...