Athletics News

Athletes at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London on 22-23 July will be among the first to compete on the track surface being used for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Double Olympic Champion Mo Farah says he feels sympathy for the clean Russian athletes unable to compete at the Rio Olympics but says countries have to follow the rules.

This gripping doc reunites the athletes whose collision at the 1984 Olympics in symbolised the ideological battles and cynicism raging behind the scenes The title could be hinting at a loss of innocence, and yet there wa...

American hurdler Keni Harrison breaks a 28-year-old world record in the 100m hurdles, clocking 12.20 seconds at the Olympic Stadium.

A female spectator at the Anniversary Games breaks down in tears after catching Usain Bolt's running shoes, following his victory in the 200m.

American hurdler Keni Harrison breaks the 100m hurdles world record at the Anniversary Games in the Olympic Stadium in London.

Nearly 30 years to the day after Javier Sotomayor won the inaugural world U20 title in Athens, Luis Enrique Zayas became just the second Cuban winner of the event with an immaculate display of jumping in Bydgoszcz.

Dominating victories by Michael Norman in the 200m and Anna Cockrell in the 400m hurdles pushed the USA's all-time gold medal tally at these championships past the 100 mark to highlight the fourth day of action at the IA...

When Kendra Harrison's Olympic dreams came crashing to earth at the brutal US Olympic Trials a few weeks ago, the second-fastest sprint hurdler of all time was forced rapidly to re-focus her season, setting her sights on...

Twelve months ago, Usain Bolt cast aside his injury problems with a 9.87 100m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London, proving the doubters wrong and kickstarting his bid for another bout of World Championships spri...

In what was one of the most impressive individual displays of the championships, USA's Anna Cockrell blitzed the field in the women's 400m hurdles final on Friday night (22).

Caroline Chepteek Chespol played a conspicuous game for the first kilometre of the 3000m steeplechase final but the 17-year-old soon made her presence felt with a blistering injection of pace with five laps remaining.

Athletics icons Michael Johnson and Usain Bolt discuss the Olympic champion's preparation for Rio and which of them would win a head-to-head 200m race.

The world U18 heptathlon silver medallist is now the world U20 champion.

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson says it will take years for the sport of athletics to recover its credibility.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says "there can be no place for doping in sport" after his country's Olympic athletics ban was upheld.

• Farah looking for pre-Rio boost at London's Anniversary Games• Olympic champion backs decision to ban Russian athletes from Brazil Mo Farah is not satisfied with any of his performances this year but still believes...

Yvonne Murray's request for her 1988 Olympic Games bronze medal to be upgraded because of drug taking by Russian athletes is rejected.

Olympic champion Mo Farah gives his response to the ban on Russia for doping. Farah says on Friday he only wants to run against 'clean athletes'. The Court of Arbitration for Sport decided on Thursday to reject Russia's ...

I don't feel sorry for the 68 athletes who appealed the IAAF ban from the Rio Olympics; I pity all those competitors who were cheated out of success The decision by the court of arbitration for sport (CAS) to uphold the ...

Tia Jones finished second at the US Junior Championships last month but the 15-year-old, who has already clocked 12.84 in the 100m hurdles and still has three full seasons left in the junior ranks, was the fastest qualif...

After the European and NACAC Mountain Running Championships, more than 200 runners from 12 countries have entered the 18th edition of the Grintovec Mountain running race - the second stage of the 2016 Mountain Running Wo...