Dina Asher-Smith produced one of the outstanding efforts in the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the season in Karlsruhe tonight as she won the 60 metres in a British record of 7.04sec.

Betty Wilson Lempus is the latest Kenyan to be banned for tampering by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), the charge being added to her sanction for testing positive for the banned substance, triamcinolone acetonide.

Britain's Olympic steeplechaser John Bicourt, who made a major impact on the sport as a competitor, teacher, coach, agent and activist, has died aged 77 from cancer.

Jamaica’s former world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake plans to hang up his spikes after next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, he has revealed.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed that he is already doing his "ultimate" job but has admitted he is considering a bid to succeed Thomas Bach as head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

World Athletics is considering imposing stricter rules for transgender athletes in the sport, while still allowing room for their inclusion in women's events.

Los Angeles has announced plans for a new major athletics event that they promise "celebrates and elevates the sport of track and field while honouring Olympic legends".

A young British athlete has turned down the opportunity to represent her country at next month’s World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Australia because of her concerns that a long plane journey would have on the environment.

Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Allyson Felix of the United States has been honoured by the University of Southern California (USC).

Australian middle-distance runner Peter Bol, who won the silver medal in the men's 800 metres at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, has took to Twitter to profess his innocence, having tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug erythropoetin, better known as EPO.

Robert Hersh, who rose to become the most senior American official in the history of athletics, has died at the age of 82, USA Track & Field (USATF) has announced.

Lawyers for Usain Bolt have alleged that more than $12.7 million (£10.3 million/€11.7 million) is missing from an account belonging to the eight-time Olympic gold medallist.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has charged Belarusian coach Yury Maisevich with acting without integrity and in bad faith after the defection of sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but team official Artur Shumak faces no further action.

Ana Lucia José Tima, a Dominican Republic triple jumper who has represented her nation twice at the Olympic Games, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for two banned substances.

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, best-known in her country for being its first openly gay athlete, has been given a provisional suspension for testing positive for anabolic agents andarine, enobosarm and ligandrol.