Athletics News

• Heavy rain has caused spectators to stay away from series of events• Usain Bolt's 100m final takes place on Sunday night at Olympic Stadium Poor crowds were once again the main talking point at the Rio Olympics as ...

Despite the presence of reigning Olympic and world champions Chen Ding and Miguel Angel Lopez in the field, the pre-race favourite on current form was China's Wang Zhen and the winner at the IAAF World Race Walking Team ...

China take both gold and silver in the men's 20km walk in Rio, with Wang Zhen taking the top prize.

Katarina Johnson-Thomps represent team GB in the heptathlon on Friday. Ennis-Hill managed to run the fourth heat of the 100m hurdles in 12.84 seconds while Katarina Johnson-Thompson scored 1211 points in the high jump, c...

• Johnson-Thompson takes early lead after high jump personal best• Ennis-Hill wins 100m hurdles then records her best jump for four years The cream quickly rose to the top on the opening day of the heptathlon with Br...

Katarina Johnson-Thompson's new British record of 1.98m puts her firmly into first position in the overall event with Jessica Ennis-Hill in third.

The independent IAAF Ethics Board has announced the provisional suspension of Major Michael Rotich, manager of the Kenyan athletics team at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, from all offices or positions in either Athletics Ke...

World champion Piotr Malachowski of Poland led qualifying in the men's discus in the morning session of the first day at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with 65.89m on his second attempt. Joining Malachowski as the only other...

Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana sets a new world record in the women's 10,000m, beating the previous best, set in 1993, by 14 seconds.

David Rudisha showed the rest of the world that it will take an extraordinary effort to wrestle the Olympic title away from him as the defending champion posted the fastest time from the morning's seven heats, clocking 1...

Inside a damp and slightly chilly Olympic Stadium, the key protagonists all cruised into tonight's final with the minimum amount of energy expended.

Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana opened athletics competition in style in the morning session, running a world record* of 29:17.45 to win the women's 10,000m, the first final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Defending champion Jessica Ennis-Hill runs 12.84 seconds in winning the fourth heat to give herself an early lead.

Andy is joined by comedians Russell Howard and Steve Williams to look back on the highlights from the first week in Rio, including Michael Phelps medal haul and the British team getting off the mark Live (almost) from Ri...

Over 200 members of the global athletics family attended the traditional IAAF Dinner on Thursday night (11) on the eve of the athletics programme of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.