Athletics News

Throughout this week, Michael Johnson picks his top five World Championships moments. At number two is Carl Lewis and Mike Powell's epic long jump battle in 1991.

Mo Farah will deliver "something special" at the World Championships in London, says British Athletics performance director Neil Black.

Timing can be everything in athletics.

The IAAF World Championships London 2017 gets under way on Friday 4 August and you can follow all the action on the IAAF website and its associated channels.

Speaking on the eve of the IAAF World Championships London 2017, British team captain Eilidh Doyle urged her teammates to draw on the home support and focus on personal bests rather than medals, in order to rise to the o...

• Neil Black, UK Athletics head, unconcerned by leaked report into coach Salazar• Farah goes for world gold in 10,000m final on Friday night The head of UK Athletics says he has stared into the eyes of Mo Farah and h...

South African 400m world record holder Wayde Van Niekerk tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan he can reach the heights hit by Usain Bolt.

Russia apologises over the doping scandal uncovered by the McLaren report for the first time, but remains suspended from athletics.

There was a spirit of defiance today at the Casa Atletica Italiana in Bishopsgate over the nation's podium prospects in London following the barren time endured at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing two years ago, a...

Speaking at the USA team press conference at London Stadium on Thursday (3), a slew of reigning and past world and Olympic champions, which included Allyson Felix, Christian Taylor, Ryan Crouser, Tianna Bartoletta and Je...

Dazzling array of pyrotechnics will herald the opening night in London, with Mo Farah, Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya among the supporting cast This much we know already: the World Athletics Championships will star...

Olympic champions Michael Johnson, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Nafi Thiam and Wayne van Niekerk recall the first time they saw Usain Bolt run.

• Canadian is out for the season after suffering a hamstring injury• 'Injuries are a part of the sport ... I'll be back stronger and faster than ever' Andre De Grasse, the Canadian widely considered to be Usain Bolt'...

Outgoing UK Athletics chief Ed Warner's legacy will be the "destruction of coaching", says the former coach of Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Sitting with the vast bowl shape of the London Stadium directly behind him, Wayde van Niekerk dealt with question after question about being 'the next Usain Bolt' as he faced the world's media at a press conference ahead...