Athletics News

This year's London Marathon winner Daniel Wanjiru will seek to extend Kenya's record as the most successful nation in the history of the men's marathon at the IAAF World Championships.

David Rudisha produced one of the most incredible displays of middle-distance running to claim the Olympic title five years ago in a world record of 1:40.91.

London 2017 Ltd has named the children's education charity Right To Play as its charity partner for the IAAF World Championships.

Asbel Kiprop has won four major titles at 1500m but his victory in Beijing two years ago was arguably the most impressive of the lot as he had to extricate himself from a seemingly impossible position on the last lap and...

With six women having run faster than four minutes in 2017, the 1500m could prove to be one of the most competitive events of the championships.

Not many of the greats get to bow out on their own terms at the very top. For every decorated athlete who completes their track career standing on the top of the podium, there are plenty more who find themselves back in ...

When you've finished 10th, eighth, third and second at four global outdoor championships, there's only one place left to progress: to the top of the podium.

It would be easy to consider this as a race for silver, given Mo Farah's dominance in global championships over the past six years. Since missing out on gold by a hair's breadth in Daegu in 2011, after Ibrahim Jeilan unl...

Almaz Ayana decimated the opposition - and the long-standing world record - at last year's Olympic Games but the Ethiopian hasn't demonstrated anything in the way of quantifiable form heading into the World Championships...

Based on Evan Jager's recent victory at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco in 8:01.29, the fastest time of the year, the US athlete could become the first non-Kenyan winner of the 3000m steeplechase at a World Cha...

Two years ago Kenya's 23-year-old Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi made her global breakthrough as she won the world 3000m steeplechase title in Beijing in 9:19.11, and she followed up with Olympic silver in Rio, clocking 9:07.12.

USA's Brenda Martinez has been a prominent member of the middle-distance elite for several years. Here the 2013 world 800m bronze medallist chats about the difficulty of peaking for the US Trials and then a major champio...