Athletics News

Meet seven inspiring people from the thousands who are running this year's London Marathon on Sunday, 23 April.

Three times he has anchored his nation to victory at the IAAF World Championships, and twice he has carried them to 4x100m gold at the Olympic Games - the first of those, in Los Angeles in 1984, while dealing with as muc...

Defending champion Mosinet Geremew is the first two-time winner in the 11 year history of Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon. The 25-year-old Ethiopian will return to the historic Chinese city in a bid to win ...

The IAAF was saddened by the news that 2008 Olympic medallist Germaine Mason of Great Britain died in a motorcycle accident on Thursday (20).

Gong Luying collected one gold and two silver medals to capture the spotlight at the Chinese National U18 Championships, which concluded in the Nanchang on Thursday (20).

BBC commentator Brendan Foster will retire following this summer's World Athletics Championships in London.

Olympic champions Derek Drouin and Jeff Henderson will face the men they beat to claim gold in Rio last August when they open their 2017 IAAF Diamond League campaigns in Shanghai on 13 May.

Hero the Hedgehog has today been revealed as the official mascot for the IAAF World Championships London 2017 following a nationwide search in partnership with iconic BBC children's television show Blue Peter.

Hero the Hedgehog and Whizbee the Bee are revealed as the official mascots for the IAAF World Championships and World Para Athletics Championships.