Athletics News

The main events and stars to follow at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, which you can follow live across the BBC.

In August 2019, the Libyan Athletics Federation (LAF) sent two athletes to Rabat, Morocco, to represent the country at the African Games.

Ethiopia's Marta Lema Megra took more than a minute off the course record to secure a convincing victory at the Hengshui Lake International Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label road race, on Sunday (22).

From the moment Doha was named as the host for this year's World Championships, no athlete from the host nation has garnered more attention than Mutaz Barshim, the reigning world high jump champion. But over the past 14 ...

Mariya Lasitskene's bid to become the first three-time high jump champion seems to be on course but she may not be arriving in Doha with the same air of invincibility she has become accustomed to ahead of major champions...

Despite improving his lifetime best to 6.06m this season, a height only three others have ever cleared, defending champion Sam Kendricks has his work cut out for him in an event that will be among the key highlights at t...

Since 2016, Katerina Stefanidi hasn't lost a major outdoor title competition: the Olympic title in Rio that year, European crowns in 2016 and 2018, and the world title in London two years ago. With that kind of recent bi...

Juan Miguel Echevarria will start clear favourite to become the first Cuban world long jump champion since four-time gold medallist Ivan Pedroso reigned supreme from 1995-2001.

Malaika Mihambo is on a roll.

Yulimar Rojas continues to fly. So far in fact, that only one woman, world record holder Inessa Kravets, has ever triple jumped farther. Considering the company the 23-year-old Venezuelan is now keeping on the all-time l...