Athletics News

Vashti Cunningham became the youngest ever women's winner at the world indoor championships, then American's first time clearance at 1.96m being decisive.

Jamaica's Omar McLeod and France's Pascal Martinot-Lagarde won their respective semifinals with identical times of 7.52 to set the stage for the final in two hours.

Burundi had waited 23 years for a world indoor medal and now - like waiting for a bus - two have shown up in quick succession.

Yomif Kajelcha seems to have an affinity with Oregon. In 2014, the 18-year-old Ethiopian went to Eugene and won the world junior 5000m title. Last year, he won over the same distance at the famed IAAF Diamond League meet...

Daisuke Matsunaga handed himself an early birthday present when he won the Asian Race Walking Championships in Nomi City on Sunday (20) and secured a second Olympic berth for Japan at 20km.

Kenya's Wilson Loyanae delivered on his promise to improve his own course record at the 87th Seoul International Marathon, running 2:05:13 to win the IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday (20).

William Chebon Chebor took five seconds off the course record when winning the 2016 New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, in 2:13:05 on Sunday (20).

A capacity crowd again packed the Oregon Convention Center and they were again treated to a splendid night of athletics with 10 champions crowned on the third day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.

If there was a danger that all this success was becoming too easy for Ashton Eaton, then all one needed to do was see the look on his face during the final event of the men's heptathlon on Saturday night, as he grimaced,...

Gianmarco Tamberi flirted with danger throughout the early stages of the competition, which lasted just under two hours, but he eventually fulfilled his status as the pre-event favourite to win Italy's first world indoor...

Czech Republic's Pavel Maslak became the third man the history of the World Indoor Championships - and the first one in 10 years - to successfully defend a world indoor 400m title, taking a commanding victory in 45.44.

Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands claimed her first global title in commanding style on Saturday night, the 23-year-old seizing control of the women's 1500m final with less than three laps to run and refusing to be passed ...

World leader Dong Bin lived up to his favourite billing and made history by becoming the third Chinese athlete ever to win a world indoor title.

There is brave, and then there is reckless. In the men's 800m final on Saturday night, the USA's Boris Berian straddled the line between the two - charging through the first 400m in a blistering 49.73 seconds - but by th...

Oluwakemi Adekoya made Bahraini athletics history when she became the first athlete from the Gulf nation to win a world indoor championships title, in the process improving her own Asian indoor record that she set in Fri...

It had been billed as a head-to-head contest between Dafne Schippers and Barbara Pierre, but Jamaica's Elaine Thompson launched herself into the reckoning for the 60m title by powering to victory in the semi-final in a p...

The three fastest men in the field confirmed their medal ambitions by winning their respective heats: France's world leader Dimitri Bascou, 2014 world indoor silver medallist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Jamaica's Omar Mc...