Athletics News

At the Meeting Madrid 2017, Isaac Makwala became the first man in history to run a 200m within 20 seconds and a 400m within 44 seconds on the same day, winning both events at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in the Spani...

Defending champion Michael McKillop safely progresses to Sunday's T38 800m final at the World Para-athletics Championships in London.

Charging through the field down the home straight, Antonio Watson of Jamaica grabbed the gold medal in a thrilling boys' 400m final on Wednesday evening at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017.

Silinda Morales became the third Cuban girl to win the world U18 discus title, doing so with a last-round throw of 52.89m. She also gave Cuba its third gold in Nairobi after two earlier wins in the boys' horizontal jumps...

Despite being one of the youngest in the field, 15-year-old Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh dominated the girls' high jump final to equal the championship record of 1.92m and winning by the largest margin in World U18 Cham...

When you're as fast as this, who needs a good start? De'Jour Russell may have reacted casually to the gun in the boys' 110m hurdles final, but such was the Jamaican's supremacy it proved irrelevant, the 17-year-old star ...

Taking advantage of her compatriot's error, Kenya's Caren Chebet charged to victory at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 on Friday (14), winning the gold medal in a dramatic girls' 2000m steeplechase final.

At just 15 years of age, Barbora Malikova defied her age and relative inexperience to run not just the smartest, but by far the strongest race in the girls' 400m final to take gold in 52.74, taking more than a second off...

Launching a lightning kick with little more than 200 metres to go, Kenyan middle-distance runner George Manangoi had the lively home crowd on its feet on Friday (14) as he stormed to victory in the boys' 1500m final in t...

Mykhaylo Kokhan of Ukraine made no mistake in the boys' hammer final on Friday (14), earning the global age group title with a commanding performance in the afternoon session at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2...

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The girls' heptathlon started in similar fashion to the boys' decathlon two days prior: with one of Germany's medal hopes picking up an injury in the second discipline.

There were no major surprises on Friday morning (14) as all the favourites progressed safely through the preliminary rounds of their respective events on day three of the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017.

A tricky thing, to be coached by your father. Timo Northoff knows this, but at the same time there's no one else he'd rather have guide his career, particularly now, after the young German claimed shot put gold at the IA...