Athletics News

The athletics statistics handbook for the IAAF World Championships London 2017 is now available to access from the IAAF website as an online ebook.

As Usain Bolt prepares to bow out of athletics, musician and fellow Jamaican Sean Paul describes the first time he met him.

The start lists for Day 1 (4 August) of the IAAF World Championships London 2017 are now available.

The evolution of the Jamaican athlete, who will make his farewell at the 2017 world championships in London - but does it pay to run fast? "There you go," Usain Bolt said moments after the world watched him go supersonic...

Usain Bolt says his close friend Germaine Mason is 'always on his mind' following the former GB high jumper's death earlier this year.

Usain Bolt says he will be remembered as 'unbeatable and unstoppable' when he calls time on his sprinting career. Bolt is due to retire following the world championships in London which take place later this month. The J...

IAAF President Sebastian Coe officially opened the 51st IAAF Congress at its opening ceremony at London's Tate Modern on Tuesday evening, welcoming delegates from more than 200 of the IAAF's 214 Member Federations.

We have been here before so many times, it has become almost deja vu central: Usain Bolt heading a global championship with a question mark over his ability to produce his customary Midas touch.

In the world of sprinting, a lot can happen in the space of two years. But a glance back at the result of the 100m at the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 highlights some names familiar to 2017 observers.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo was still a teenager when she first challenged for a medal at the IAAF World Championships, finishing fourth in the 200m final in Moscow in 2013.

Two years ago in Beijing Wayde van Niekerk appeared emotionally overwhelmed, as well as physically exhausted, after making his breakthrough at global level thanks to victory in an African record of 43.48 ahead of the 200...

There have been some dramatic finishes to the women's one-lap final at the IAAF World Championships in recent years. In Osaka in 2007, and again in Moscow in 2013, Britain's Christine Ohuruogu came from nowhere to snatch...

This is shaping up to be a particularly fantastic championships for coach Edrick Floreal whose athletes are favoured to claim the 100m hurdles title courtesy of world record-holder Kendra Harrison as well as this title t...

It's more than 12 years since Kerron Clement ran 44.57 to break Michael Johnson's world indoor 400m record and it's a decade since he won his first world 400m hurdles title in Osaka.

A little over five weeks ago, the final of the women's 400m hurdles at the US championships illustrated just how deep the country's pool of hurdling talent is. It's momentum the London-bound US quartet hope to turn into ...

Speaking at his final pre-championships press conference, at a venue visited by King George III of Great Britain back in 1787, Usain Bolt had precious few words of encouragement for any pretenders to his particular thron...