Athletics News

Few athletes will have faced such an intimidating atmosphere as young Ethiopian pair Lemlem Hailu and Sindu Girma, who entered the Kasarani Stadium on Saturday evening to the sound of a near-capacity crowd screaming for ...

Ethiopia's middle-distance contingent spoiled the party for the host nation on Saturday, winning gold in the boys' 800m and girls' 1500m finals in front of a vibrant near-capacity crowd at Kasarani Stadium, on a spectacu...

Ethiopia came out on top on Saturday in a thrilling four-way battle in the boys' 800m final, closing out a superb evening session of competition at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017.

Niu Chunge of China racked up a flawless series in the final to win the girls' pole vault gold medal on Saturday evening at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017.

Pre-race favourite Sokwakhana Zazini hit it hard from the start, dominating the boys' 400m hurdles final with a spectacular performance at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 on Saturday night.

Overnight leader Maria Vicente knew she had to extend her lead in the first heptathlon event of the second day if she was going to challenge for the gold medal.

Heading into the championships, just 16cm separated the top five athletes in the girls' triple jump, so picking a winner was always going to prove a tricky task, but in the end an athlete few had considered - China's Qiu...

Coming into the girls' hammer final, Cuba's Amanda Almendariaz wouldn't have been most people's idea of the champion, but with a rapid spin, a slingshot release and a high, arcing trajectory of the metal sphere, she chan...

The hurdles events are synonymous with heroism as much as heartbreak, and we had both on Saturday evening in the Kasarani Stadium as South Africa's Zeney van der Walt snatched victory in the dying yards from Jamaica's Sa...

Welcome to our comprehensive lead-in coverage to the Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme in Rabat, the tenth stop of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League series.

The victory itself was not a surprise, but world U18 leader Breyton Poole produced one of the most captivating displays of the championships to win the high jump title in Nairobi, the 1.72m tall jumper improving on his p...

Breyton Poole produced the performance of his life on Saturday, with the diminutive South African athlete smashing his personal best by six centimetres to clinch the gold medal in the boys' high jump final in the morning...

Eight reigning Olympic champions will converge on the Moroccan capital Rabat on Sunday (16) for the Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athletisme, the tenth stop of the 2017 IAAF Diamond League.

Glenda Morejon became only the second Ecuadorian to win a world U18 title when she took the win in the girls' 5000m race walk on Saturday morning in Nairobi.

African 100m champion Ben Youssef Meite is among a crop of the world's leading sprinters. Here the 30-year-old Ivory Coast international talks about the significance of overcoming serious injury and two years in the wild...

The boys' 10,000m race walk was a historic race for several reasons.

Olympic gold medallist Gil Roberts has been cleared of failing a drugs test, after it was found that he ingested a banned substance by kissing his girlfriend.