Athletics News

Olympic gold medallist Denise Lewis tips Seren Bundy-Davies to inspire Wales, just as Gareth Bale did during Euro 2016.

• IOC awaits court of arbitration for sport ruling on 68 competitors• Modern pentathlete Aleksander Lesun confident he will be at Olympics As the International Olympic Committee said it would consider legal options t...

Konrad Bukowiecki lived up to his role as championships poster boy flawlessly, breaking the world U20 record in the shot put* to highlight the opening day of the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 on Tuesday (19...

Niklas Kaul has ended the first day of the decathlon in sixth place, almost 200 points behind current leader Maksim Andraloits, but the German is on course to take gold.

Konrad Bukowiecki capped the first evening of the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 by shattering the world U20 record* in the third round of the shot put final.

The IOC faces a momentous decision. If Russia is not excluded the world will not be able to believe in what it sees in the arena at the Olympic Games next month There almost certainly never was an age of innocence in spo...

China's Ma Zhenxia is just 17 years old, but already she owns four major global titles.

Having nailed the IOC's colours to the mast of anti-doping, will this remaining vestige of Olympic values be lost too? The IOC simply must exclude the Russian Olympic Committee and its athletes from the Rio Games When an...

The provisional entry lists for the 10th meeting of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League in London on 22-23 July are now available.

• Russian whistleblower told to pay back £377,961.62 plus costs• 'We are determined to make marathon running a safe haven from doping' The Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova, who blew the whistle on corruptio...

Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie and European 100m record-holder Jimmy Vicaut are two of many leading French athletes set to compete on 27 August at the Meeting de Paris, the 12th stop of this year's IAAF Di...

Two weeks after finishing an uncharacteristic third at the Kenyan Olympic Trials, world and Olympic champion David Rudisha returned to winning ways by running a world-leading 1:43.35 in the 800m at the Istvan Gyulai Memo...