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Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jason Livermore tests positive for a banned substance, Jamaica's anti-doping disciplinary panel says.

The Scot has set five British records over various distances in the past year and tackles the mile for the third time at the Anniversary Games on Sunday It remains one of the most memorable images in British athletics: a...

Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo is currently the world's pre-eminent female one-lap exponent. Here the Bahamian sprint superstar recalls her very first international experience, which provided the inspiration a...

Welcome to our comprehensive lead-in coverage to the Müller Anniversary Games in London, the ninth stop of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League series.

Eighteen years after Jaques Freitag won the inaugural World Youth Championships title, South Africa is once again favoured to take gold in the high jump. Breyton Poole, with 2.18m to his name this year, is the clear numb...

If the hot weather was a cause for sub-par performances on the opening day, it was the turn of torrential rain to play spoil sport on the second day of the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, India, on Friday (...

High jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh will be aiming to become just the second Ukrainian athlete in history to win a world U18 title in a jumps event.

With only two boys having cleared five metres this season, French athlete Matthias Orban and South African Valco van Wyk will turn out as the favourites on paper.

In a wide-open contest, Chinese athlete Chunge Niu will turn out as the favourite on paper, but she will face a formidable onslaught from the rest of the line-up.

In an event without a clear-cut favourite, it is China's Gong Luying who is leading the field with her 6.35m from the national U18 championships in April, which she followed with a win at the Asian U18 Championships a mo...

Cuba has won four of the eight World U18 titles in boys' triple jump thus far, and they will be looking to make it five in Nairobi with the two top entrants in the field.

In a field where the leading five athletes are separated by just 16cm, it's anyone's guess who will reign supreme in Nairobi and take the girls' triple jump title. The leading three entrants span the width of the globe, ...

If form lines are to be believed, then this should come down to an all-European battle for the medals, with German pair Jonas Tesch and Timo Northoff taking on Belarus's Mikhail Samuseu.

Claudio Romero starts as favourite with a best of 63.65m this year and 64.18m in 2016. The young Chilean has already won medals in the South American championships in both the U18 and U20 categories and competed in the W...

Silinda Morales of Cuba has only been competing in her home country so far, but she enters the competition as the favourite with the best mark of 53.21m and a host of other performances well beyond the 50-metre line.

If he is anywhere near his best, Ukrainian athlete Mykhaylo Kokhan should be a dominant force with the hammer.

As is often the case when it's hammer time, it's the Eastern European entrants who should be looked to first. Romania's Ana Adela Stanciu is the leading thrower in the field, with a best of 69.58m this season, which she ...

Heading the entries and the world list this season is Dawid Wegner of Poland with 81.48m. The Pole, however, has not come within 10 metres of the mark since May.

Given that she will be the only girl in action in Nairobi who has set a world U18 record this year, it's fair to say Cuban javelin thrower Marisleisys Duarthe is one of the biggest favourites in any event.

Two years ago in Cali, Germany's Niklas Kaul came out on top in the decathlon after a two-day battle with Ludovic Besson of France.

A new generation of heptathletes has emerged in recent years.