Athletics News

The court of arbitration for sport is set to annouce a decision on Russia and the Olympics tomorrow. These are the key questions facing them The court of arbitration for sport (Cas) in Lausanne will decide whether 68 Rus...

The inventor of the running blade tells a BBC Radio 5 live special programme of his concerns over 'blade runners' competing at the Olympic Games.

• Viktoria Komova, Russian gymnast: 'We're worried but it is not up to us'• Hammer thrower Sergei Litvinov: 'There's nothing to be happy about' Rain was in the forecast as the Russian track and field championships be...

Living up admirably to his favourite's role, Maykel D. Masso of Cuba won his second consecutive global title in the long jump, adding the world U20 crown to the U18 laurels he won last year in Cali.

For the first eight events of the decathlon, Kaul kept his cool. He knew that his best event was yet to come.

Powered by a 61.9-second closing lap, Beyenu Degefa captured the women's 3000m title, the first gold medal at these championships for Ethiopia.

In what was a year of surprises for Noah Lyles, the 18-year-old US sprinter had one final trick up his sleeve in Bydgoszcz on Wednesday night (20).

Coming into the IAAF World U20 Championships, few would have predicted that Poland's Klaudia Maruszewska stood much chance of a medal. After all, the Polish athlete had a best of just 50.43m, several metres behind a hord...

Distance running greats Wilson Kipsang and Kenenisa Bekele are set to go head to head at this year's edition of the BMW Berlin Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on 25 September.

The second morning of action at the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 on Wednesday (20) saw a host of leading sprinters take to the track for the first time, while the men's decathlon progressed towards what is...

BBC Sport continues the countdown to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games with Carl Lewis winning in the men's 100m, 200m, 400m and the long jump at the 1984 Games.

Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson goes back to her old primary school where she bumps into one of her sports teachers.