Athletics News

The coach of the women's 1,500m world record holder and reigning world champion is arrested in Spain as part of an anti-doping operation.

With less than one month to go until the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016, several events are already shaping up as potential highlights of the championship, none more so than the women's 1500m.

Christopher Taylor booked his ticket to IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 with a workmanlike victory in the men's 400m at the Jamaica Junior Championships in Kingston, which came to a close on Sunday (19).

Pole vaulter Piotr Lisek has secured a bronze medal at each of the past two major championships. In August last year he took third place at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, and in March this year he repeated th...

Brazil's Augusto Dutra de Oliveira showed his Olympic medal claims are alive and well by clearing 5.70m to win the men's pole vault at the IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Sao Bernardo do Campo on Sunday (19).

American teenager Sydney McLaughlin smashed the world U18 best for 400m hurdles when running 54.46 on the final day of the New Balance National High School National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina on Sunday (...