Athletics News

In line with the IAAF vision to rebuild trust in the sport and foster the younger generations of athletes and fans, the first 'On Camp with the IAAF' was held ahead of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.

On Friday, at the Oregon Convention Center, Nia Ali was doing a lap of honour and giving endless interviews after winning her second world indoor title in the 60m hurdles.

The 2009 world discus champion Dani Samuels has enjoyed a distinguished career in the sport. Having made the final in 2008 and 2012, she will be aiming for her first Olympic Games medal in Rio later this summer. Here the...

Fittingly for the host nation, the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 reached its conclusion with the USA taking gold in the final event.

They saved the best for last. On the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016, a sellout crowd of 7191 filled the stands at the Oregon Convention Center. Throughout an action-packed two-hour program...

Local runner Liu Ruihuan cut more than two minutes off her personal best to take the women's title while Ethiopian teenager Kelkile Gezahegn Woldaregay had a surprise win in the men's race at the 2016 Chongqing Internati...

The men's 4x400m team closed the most successful World Indoor Championships ever for the United States with a memorable performance in front of another sell-out crowd at the Oregon Convention Center.

Omar McLeod won Jamaica's only gold medal of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 with a commanding win in a national record and equal world-leading time of 7.41.

Great Britain failed to win a gold medal at the World Indoor Championships for only the second time since 1997.

Matthew Centrowitz electrified the capacity crowd in the Oregon Convention Center with an impressive finish to become the first American to win the 1500m world title.

Barring an accident, this was always likely to be a rout for the US quartet, and that's exactly what it was as the home nation streaked to victory in 3:26.38, coming home well clear of Poland (3:31.15) and Romania (3:31....

Kenya's Sammy Kitwara improved his personal best by one second when he won the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in 59:47 on Sunday (20).