Athletics News

Back on Super Saturday four years ago, the famous night when British athletes won three gold medals in under an hour at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Greg Rutherford was probably the least expected of the trio to triump...

Russian athletes have been banned from next month's Paralympic Games. Quite right. It's the clearest possible message that performance-enhancing substances are completely unacceptable No Olympic Games can entirely escape...

Flying Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers will compete over 100m at the IAAF Diamond League final in Brussels on Friday 9 September, the meeting organisers announced on Monday (8).

In the absence of Italy's world indoor and European champion Gianmarco Tamberi, who cleared a national record of 2.39m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco but then injured himself when attempting what would have...

The 30-something generation would appear well poised to mount a strong challenge for the Olympic gold in an event which serves up a number of compelling story lines.

.Kenyan marathon maestro Eliud Kipchoge advanced to second on the all-time lists after his 2:03:05 victory in the London Marathon in April and at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games he will aim to add to the bronze and silver med...

Renaud Lavillenie is seeking to become the first man since US vaulter Bob Richards 60 years ago to successfully defend an Olympic men's pole vault title.

No athlete in Rio will quite carry the weight of public expectation from 200 million Brazilians quite like Fabiana Murer. The host nation's most realistic chance of an athletics gold medal in Rio, the 35-year-old veteran...

Brittney Reese already owns more global long jump titles than any other woman in history. Now she wants another.

May the men's triple jump at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games be as electrifying as it was at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015. If it is, not only would the Olympic record be bettered, but the men might scare the 21-y...

If medals were handed out based on dominance within an Olympic cycle, then the triple jump gold may as well be handed to Caterine Ibarguen as soon as she enters Rio's Olympic Stadium.