Athletics News

Great Britain lie fifth out of eight nations after the first day of the inaugural Athletics World Cup at London Stadium.

The penultimate day of action at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 featured some of the biggest names in junior athletics, but the biggest talking point of the session came from a 16-year-old Jamaican girl.

Report: men's 4x100m relay - IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018

Pushed to the line and tested to the limit in a fiercely competitive race, Sokwakhana Zazini lived up to the massive expectations heaped upon his slight shoulders to strike gold in the 400m hurdles and take South Africa'...

In an event of impressive breakthroughs, three athletes rose above the rest - and indeed their previous selves - to send the medals to various corners of the globe: gold to Australia and Nash Lowis with 75.31m; silver to...

A thrilling 5000m final at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 which was won by Kenya's Edward Zakayo would have been good enough to grace any Diamond League meeting both in terms of the line-up and ensuing spe...

Briana Williams stormed to victory in the 200m to collect her second sprint gold in less than 48 hours to sensationally cap her rise on the international stage.

One year after winning the world U18 triple jump title in Nairobi last year, Cuba's Jordan A. Diaz added the world U20 title to his burgeoning collection with consummate ease.

On a week where nothing seemed certain, where no favourite seemed impervious to the pressure of a major championship final, Sweden's Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis was ice cool, dispatching his rivals to take Sweden's first ev...

Greece was expected to contend for the men's hammer title but their first gold medal at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 came instead in the high jump.

After covering 25 laps of the track in uncomfortably warm conditions, just six thousandths of a second separated the top two finishers at the end of the men's 10,000m race walk at the IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere...

The order from the U20 10km at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in Taicang, China in May was repeated on the track as the 10,000m race walk reached a thrilling three-way climax on the fifth morning of compe...

Hellen Obiri delivered on her pre-race promise to "try to run fast" when the Kenyan sped to a 5000m world lead of 14:21.75 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rabat on Friday night (13).