Athletics

Teenager Letsile Tebogo has attracted comparisons to Usain Bolt after showboating his way to the under-20 100 metres world title in a record time with a scorching run in Colombia on ...

Armand Duplantis brought down the curtain on the World Championships in stunning fashion on Sunday, breaking his own pole vault world record in the final act of the 10-day track ...

Beating the Olympic champion to win a World Championship gold medal is a feeling few athletes get to experience but Jake Wightman is unique in doing it with his dad ...

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce claimed an astonishing fifth world 100 metres title at the age of 35 on Sunday when she clocked 10.67 seconds to edge Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah in a brilliant Jamaican ...

Sir Mo Farah says he is “relieved” the Home Office has no plans to take action against him, after making the shock revelation that he was brought to the UK ...

Sir Mo Farah has revealed in a BBC documentary that he was brought into the UK illegally under the name of another child. The four-time Olympic champion said “the truth ...

World Athletics on Tuesday joined a growing list of sporting bodies to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes, while tennis’s governing bodies barred players from competing under the name or ...

Italy’s double Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs marked his return to action for the first time since his shock win in Tokyo last year with victory in the 60 metres ...

Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics’ governing body who was convicted of corruption last year, died at home in Senegal on Friday at the age of 88, his son ...

Ethiopian Olympic gold medallist and national hero Haile Gebrselassie pledged on Wednesday to join the fight against rebellious forces in his country, after the prime minister said he had gone ...

Paphos regional board of tourism (ETAP), and organisers of the 23rd Logicom Cyprus Marathon, will welcome renowned long-distance runners to Paphos, in a coordinated effort aimed at promoting the region ...

Long-distance runner Agnes Tirop, Kenya’s two-times World Championship bronze medallist, was found allegedly stabbed to death at her home, Athletics Kenya said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old represented Kenya in ...

The Tokyo Marathon has been postponed until March and the 2022 edition cancelled due to the COVID-19 state of emergency in the capital, event organisers said. The race was to have ...

An advisory group to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will review whether cannabis should remain a banned substance, a move that comes after American track and field star Sha’Carri ...

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe says that his sport can have a huge influence on helping the post-pandemic world address the global health crisis and is making plans to ensure ...