Athletics News

World Athletics Championships Oregon22 mascot Legend the Bigfoot has fun with fans and gets a piggyback on day one of the event.

Watch as Team GB and Northern Ireland fail to qualify for the 4x400m mixed relay finals with a time of 3:14.75 behind USA, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy and Nigeria on day one of the World Athletics Championships in Ore...

IOC restores American's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon wins Thorpe was stripped of golds for playing minor league baseball Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon ...

British athlete Chris Thompson will miss Sunday's marathon at the World Championships in Oregon because of delays processing his US visa.

Hodgkinson v Mu. Parchment v Holloway. Thompson-Herah v Fraser-Pryce v Jackson. Everywhere you look there are intriguing clashes on the Oregon 2022 startlists,

Not all competitors will have their visa issues resolved in time to appear at the World Championships, World Athletics president Lord Coe admits.

The Question of Sport team have put together a selection of questions looking ahead to this year's sport. See how you get on.

Scottish trio Josh Kerr, Jake Wightman, and Neil Gourley hold Britain's hopes of a first men's 1500m gold medal at the World Championships since Steve Cram in 1983.

Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will stage the 2025 World Championships after beating rival bids from Nairobi, Silesia and Singapore.