Athletics News

BBC Sport continues the countdown to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games with American Jesse Owens winning four gold medals in Nazi Germany at the Berlin Games in 1936.

• Sports minister Vitaly Mutko expresses gratitude to IOC• Lingering anger at doping allegations and absence of track and field in Rio The International Olympic Committee's decision not to ban Russia from the Rio Gam...

• 'I had a terrible feeling arms would be twisted,' says Olympic champion• 'This is a spineless attempt to appear as the nice guy to both sides' Britain's world and Olympic long jump champion, Greg Rutherford, led th...

After six thrilling days of action, perhaps this was the only appropriate climax.

Amos Kirui kept Kenya's perfect U20 World Championships streak in the 3000m Steeplechase alive for the 15th consecutive edition, but his victory didn't come until after one of the week's most ferociously entertaining con...

The USA won an eighth successive 4x400m relay title after a thrilling homestretch battle with Botswana to drop the curtain on the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016.

Ukraine's Yuliya Levchenko led the 2016 world outdoor U20 list with a 1.95m clearance but world U18 champion Michaela Hruba, who already boasts sizeable experience at senior level, produced one of her best jumps of the s...

Ethiopia claimed gold and silver for the second championships in a row with Adanech Anbesa and Fantu Worku outpacing the six runners who remained in title contention with 200 metres remaining.

It was predicted to be one of the highest-quality races of the championships, and so it proved.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says athletes will still have to meet 'very strict criteria' to be allowed to compete

In his very first throw of the competition, Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz of Qatar effectively ended the men's discus final as a contest, unleashing a whopping throw of 63.63m to take command of the lead, a position he never rel...

British athletes Dina Asher-Smith, Lynsey Sharp, Adam Gemili and Mo Farah tell BBC Sport there needs to be a stand against doping offences.

Youth Olympic champion Yanis David went to Bydgoszcz as one of the favourites for the triple jump title. She will leave the Polish city as the world U20 long jump champion.