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On paper, it looks likely to be a battle between American duo Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs - the top two from the Rio Olympics last year - as the pair own the top nine marks in the world in 2017, half a metre clear of the...

Between the two of them, German Robert Harting and Piotr Malachowski of Poland have captured the last four world discus throw titles. Attempting to extend that supremacy will be one of the key story lines in London, espe...

Making their late race breaks in similar fashion, Feyisa Lilesa and Brigid Kosgei took convincing victories at the 18th edition of the Bogota Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday (30).

After claiming six major silver or bronze medals since the 2008 Olympic Games, will China's Gong Lijiao finally claim her maiden major title in London?

Sandra Perkovic heads to the 2017 IAAF World Championships seemingly destined to repeat the Midas touch that took her to Olympic gold in the same London Stadium back in 2012.

In possession of the eight longest throws in the world in 2017 and three metres clear at the top of the 2017 world list, it would be hard to bet against Poland's Pawel Fajdek retaining his title in London and making it t...

Fresh from her world record at the end of last season, Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk starts as the overwhelming favourite. Four metres clear at the top of the list, the twice Olympic, twice world and three-time European cham...

It promises to be a Germanic equivalent of the great Coe-Ovett rivalry of the late 1970s and early 1980s - only with spears, not middle distance mastery. The way the jousting for javelin supremacy between Johannes Vetter...

If any event can properly illustrate some of the generational changing of the guard that these championships will represent, it's the women's javelin throw.