Dane Bird-Smith of Australia is aiming to collect his third successive title at the Around Taihu competition in Suzhou, China that forms the last leg of the 2018 IAAF Race Walking Challenge.
Russia have been warned by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) not to expect their bans by those organisations to be automatically lifted following the decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to lift their suspension on the country.
Athletes from 179 different countries are set to compete in track and field at the next month's Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires as part of a programme that will include several “innovations” the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have announced.
An air quality monitor has been installed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at the Stade Louis II in Monaco as part of its campaign to raise awareness of the effects of air pollution.
Kenya's Rio 2016 Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge took more than a minute off the marathon world record at this morning's Berlin Marathon - and later in the day France's world decathlon champion Kevin Mayer set a new world mark of 9,126 points at the annual meeting in Talence.
Disgraced former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack is facing additional charges in France for allegedly favouring his son in negotiations for sponsorship and TV right deals.
Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya and Tirunesh Dibaba from Ethiopia are each in with a chance of breaking the men’s and women’s world records respectively at tomorrow's Berlin Marathon.
Niels de Vos will leave his role as chief executive of UK Athletics (UKA) at the end of this month after almost 12 years in the role, it has been announced.
Jamaica will not step in to stage next year's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Relays due to a lack of financial backing.
South African athlete Caster Semenya has been given her own Nike advert demonstrating "her journey to success".
Caterine Ibarguen completed her second major triple jump/long jump double of the season here today to help Team Americas take over the title of Continental Cup champions from Team Europe.
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson has revealed he has suffered a transient ischemic attack, or a mini-stroke, but is recovering at home.
Championship records for Sifan Hassan and Abderrahman Samba, and a dramatic men's 3,000 metres steeplechase final were highlights as Team Americas took a halfway lead in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Continental Cup.
The 13th edition of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Continental Cup, which takes place here over the weekend, was described today by IAAF President Sebastian Coe as "a great opportunity" to trial innovations for the sport.
Former Athletics Kenya (AK) officials David Okeyo and Isaac Mwangi have been cleared of extorting athletes in return for covering up positive drugs tests, it was announced today.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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