Athletics News

A year has passed since Kevin Mayer set his world record of 9126. Although he hasn't contested a full decathlon so far in 2019, the indications are that the 27-year-old Frenchman is in even better form than last year.

Nafissatou Thiam will start a resounding favourite at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 to join combined events legends Carolina Kluft and Jessica Ennis-Hill as a back-to-back world heptathlon champion.

In one of the most wide-open events on the programme at the IAAF World Athletics Championship Doha 2019, more than a dozen men could make serious claims to challenge for the 20km race walk title.

His performance at the 2016 Olympic Games may be remembered for all the wrong reasons, but since then Yohann Diniz has barely put a foot wrong.

Much has changed in the fast-evolving world of women's 50km race walking since Ines Henriques won the world title in London two years ago.

For neutral observers - and of course the home crowd - the men's 4x100m final was one of the highlights of the IAAF World Championships held two years ago in London's Olympic stadium, as Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake anchored...

The USA and Jamaica have ruled this event for the best part of a decade, but their dominance could be seriously challenged in Doha.

After relinquishing their world crown at the World Championships in London to Trinidad and Tobago two years ago, the USA will be desperate to regain the men's 4x400m title they have long viewed as their property.

Two years ago, a US quartet demoralised the field in the women's 4x400m, winning by nearly six seconds in a world-leading 3:19.02, the fastest time in the world since the 2012 Olympic Games held on the same London Stadiu...