Athletics News

For all their sprint success, Jamaica has never won the women's 400m title in the 30-year history of these championships, but in Junelle Bromfield and Tiffany James they have two athletes who are capable of ending that d...

Jessica Ennis-Hill and coach Toni Minichiello discuss their unique relationship for a BBC documentary as she seeks Olympic history.

Saudi Arabia has never had a 100m medallist at the IAAF World U20 Championships, but in Abdullah Akbar Mohammed, they have an athlete who could potentially end that drought and deliver their second gold medal in the hist...

Michael Norman missed out on a place on the US Olympic team for this event by two places and a mere 0.14 but the 18-year-old is expected to bounce back with victory in Bydgoszcz.

British 400m hurdler Eilidh Doyle sets a new personal best to win at the Diamond League in Monaco.

World U20 leader Sada Williams of Barbados will arrive in Bydgoszcz gunning for her country's first gold medal in the 200m.

The Olympic heptathlon champion is more relaxed than in 2012 but her bid to become the first British woman to retain a track and field title is firmly on track Whatever has just passed when, later this summer, Jessica En...

Botswana's Baboloki Thebe has been a regular fixture in global age-group championships since 2014 but to say his 44.22 performance at his national championships was a surprise is an understatement.

Eight of the year's 10 fastest U20 men are expected to line up in the 800m with Kenya arriving as a solid threat to repeat their gold-silver finish from Eugene two years ago.

The focus in the men's metric mile will fall on Kumari Taki, who will be targeting a second world title in the event.

Ethiopia's Dawit Seyaum and Gudaf Tsegay claimed the gold and silver medals in this race two years ago in Eugene and their compatriots once again lead the world U20 list heading into Bydgoszcz.

Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach Toni Minichiello describes the moment the Olympic gold medallist told him she was pregnant back in January 2014.

In what appears to be a fairly wide open field, Aron Kifle will be targeting Eritrea's first gold medal in any event in the history of these championships.

For champion distance runners Haile Gebrselassie, Daniel Komen and Ibrahim Jeilan, winning the 10,000m at the IAAF World U20 Championships was the platform upon which their future success was built, but who will carve th...

World junior cross-country champion Letesenbet Gidey leads this year's world U20 list by 25 seconds but the 18-year-old is a noteworthy absentee.

Since the 2000m steeplechase was extended to the standard 3000m distance at the second edition of these championships in 1988, Kenya has won all 14 titles. Remarkably, athletes from the east African powerhouse aren't the...

Celliphine Chepteek Chespol won the world U18 2000m steeplechase title in Cali last summer and the Kenyan has made a seamless transition into the U20 ranks.

With the two fastest performances of the season to his credit, US junior champion Marcus Krah will start as the man to beat.

The women's 100m hurdles could be one of the highest-quality events in Bydgoszcz.

Reigning champion Jaheel Hyde has been named on the Jamaican team for Bydgoszcz, but having qualified for the Olympics at their national championships in Kingston earlier this month, the 19-year-old may well forego this ...

World U20 record-holder Sydney McLaughlin towers over her contemporaries in this category, but the 16-year-old has decided to forego these championships to prepare for next month's Olympic Games.

Manuel Bermudez missed out on the gold medal by just four seconds at this year's World Race Walking Team Championships, but the Spaniard will start as favourite in Bydgoszcz.