The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo continues after another thrilling day of action in Japan. Tuesday provided another star-studded schedule, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shattering the ...

USA’s Yared Nuguse and Grant Fisher will return to the scene of their respective mile and 3000m short track world records ...

There are world records in athletics and then there are certain landmarks from the 1980s that plenty of good judges have considered eternal. Florence Griffith Joyner in the women’s 100 metres and 200m ...

Armand Duplantis broke the men's pole vault world at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships on Monday - but how does technology help him beat his rivals? The 25-year-old smashed the world record for ...

Olympic Champion Mondo Duplantis has set the 13th pole vault world record of his career by clearing 6.29m at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Budapest, Hungary. Duplantis, 25, is the Olympic and World ...

The perennial battle between adulation and scepticism summed up the year in athletics as fans were treated to some ...

World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Kerry O’Brien, one of Australia’s leading distance runners of the 1960s and ...

Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Thursday.

The World Athletics Championships begin today in Tokyo with track and field’s finest competing for 147 medals across 49 events. The spotlight will be on Hodgkinson in particular, who has been backed ...

On August 7, at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, Jonathan Edwards produced the two greatest triple jumps the world had seen, one after the other. In an enthralling 20 minutes of ...

The governing body outlined last week, during its 239th Council Meeting, the broad range of sporting and regulatory decisions ...