Athletics News

Following the conclusion of their national trial event earlier this week, host nation Kenya has named its team for next month's IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017.

The Athletissima organisers have signed up 13 winners from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and 13 winners from the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 to compete at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 6 July.

The setting is changing, but the tone remains. When the Meeting de Paris returns to the Charléty Stadium on 1 July, the French leg of the IAAF Diamond League will boast one of its best line-ups in recent years.

For three glorious years in the mid-1990s, Derrick Adkins reigned supreme in the men's 400m hurdles. From 1994 to 1996 the US athlete was 'the man' in his event, winning world and Olympic titles and bettering 48 seconds ...

The provisional entry lists for the sixth meeting of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League in Stockholm on 18 June are now available.