IAAF World Athletic Championships 2017
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Caster Semenya wins appeal at European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights rules in favour of double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya.
Isaac Makwala has 'unfinished business' at World Athletics…
Five years on from being forced out of the World Championships final, Botswana's Isaac Makwala is intent on becoming world 400m…
Lamine Diack: Disgraced athletics boss dies in Senegal
The disgraced former head of world athletics governing body Lamine Diack dies in Senegal aged 88.
Salwa Eid Naser: World 400m champion to miss Olympics following…
World 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser will miss the Tokyo Olympics after being handed a two-year ban for breaching anti-doping…
A royal celebration – 100 years of the Spanish federation
Spanish athletics can trace its origins back to the late 1860s, when gymnastics clubs often organised athletics competitions as…
1980 Olympic 50km race walk silver medallist Llopart dies
World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that former race walker Jorge Llopart, who won Spain’s first ever Olympic medal in…
Kiplimo’s rise continues with first senior world title
Jacob Kiplimo's road to the top of the world started in Kween, a rural district in the east of Uganda, close to the Kenyan border.
Estonia: small nation, big achievements
Estonia is one of four World Athletics federations celebrating its centenary in 2020, having been officially founded on 21…
Details of Cheptegei's 10,000m world record assault revealed
The atypical 2020 season is set to feature another stunning chapter on Wednesday (7) when Uganda’s recently-minted world 5000m…
Top five World Half Marathon Championships legends
In the latest in our series of features in the countdown to the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020, we look…
Top-five World Half Marathon Championships legends
In the latest in our series of features in the countdown to the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Gdynia 2020, we look…
Twenty years after her Olympic triumph, Skolimowska's legacy lives on
Remembering Kamila Skolimoska, the first Olympic women's hammer throw champion, on the anniversary of her historic victory at the…
New way to judge jumps take-off fouls among recent competition rule…
In case you missed it, World Athletics will be introducing a significant change to the way take-off fouls are judged in long and…
Coach Ruiter on star pupil Cheptegei: ‘He will be the new standard’
When Joshua Cheptegei made history to wipe 1.99 seconds from Kenenisa Bekele’s world 5000m record in Monaco in August, it…
Obiri ponders plans for Olympics and beyond
Hellen Obiri came close to walking away from the sport eight years ago.
Loaded 3000m line-up for Doha as 2020 Wanda Diamond League set to go…
It may have been a far-from-normal season, but the Wanda Diamond League will end on a high in Doha on Friday (25) with what is…
Papa Massata Diack fights back over his corruption conviction in…
Papa Massata Diack, son of the former IAAF president Lamine, challenges French authorities over his conviction for corruption.
Back to full health, Bromell's biggest goal is to continue to inspire
Life has never come easily to Trayvon Bromell.
Armand Duplantis breaks 26-year-old pole vault world record
Armand Duplantis breaks pole vault great Sergey Bubka's legendary 26-year-old world record as he adds the outdoor mark to the…
Duplantis scales 6.15m in Rome, world's highest ever outdoor vault
In the country where ‘Mondo’ means ‘world’, Swedish wunderkind Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis confirmed his status as the world’s…
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