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Future of Crystal Palace as athletics venue still in doubt despite Mayor of London pledge

  • Athletics

Crystal Palace National Sports Centre the future of one of the world’s most affectionately regarded athletics

Before major athletics events in London were switched to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, Crystal Palace

- an atmospheric 19,000 capacity venue - was the epicentre for British athletics after the demise of

London is the only capital city in Europe that doesn’t have a dedicated athletics centre."

Crystal Palace is the most accessible athletics stadium in the country so it’s a total joke what has

In the meantime, the Mayor looks forward to world-class athletics returning to the London Stadium for




Glasgow launches brand and unveils ambassador with year to go until World Athletics Indoor Championships

  • Athletics

With one year to go until next year’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Eilidh Doyle,

is due to take place from March 1 to 3 at the Emirates Arena, which successfully hosted the European Athletics

One year from today Glasgow will host the World Athletics Indoor Championships at Emirates arena 1st

#WICGlasgow24 pic.twitter.com/H43IV8WSbD— wicglasgow24 (@wicglasgow24) March 1, 2023World Athletics

Glasgow has a fine record of hosting great athletics events, from the 2014 Commonwealth Games to the

Ian Beattie, chair of UK Athletics and co-chair of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24


Legends Landy and Clarke latest Australians honoured with World Athletics Heritage Plaques

  • Athletics

Australia’s rich athletics history was celebrated as legendary runners John Landy and Ron Clarke were

honoured with World Athletics Heritage Plaques.

In a ceremony tied in to last month's World Cross-Country Championships in Bathurst, World Athletics

since the 2001 Grand Prix Final in Melbourne by announcing three World Athletics Heritage Plaques,"

Australia, which in 1912 was one of the founding members of World Athletics [formerly the International

Association of Athletics Federations], has made a considerable contribution to our sport’s history and

With Herb Elliott in Portsea to unveil the World Athletics Heritage Plaque which honours his legendary


Host of Olympic gold medallists gather in muted Istanbul for European Indoor Championships "like no other"

  • Athletics

Fanfares for the European Athletics Indoor Championships, due to start here tomorrow, are understandably

European Athletics has acknowledged that these Championships "will not be the same as others", adding

European Athletics will also donate €1 (£0.90/$1.05) for every ticket sold for the Istanbul 2023 European

Athletics Indoor Championships since 7 February."

Mihambo and Nafissatou Thiam are all eager to lay down a golden marker ahead of this summer’s World Athletics

than a month’s training this year due to a virus, but an impressive, if testing run-out at the World Athletics



Germany's exuberant pole-vaulting talent Lobinger dies aged 50

  • Athletics

World Athletics has paid tribute to German pole vaulter Tim Lobinger, the 2003 world indoor champion,

is also a member of the exclusive six-metre club, having cleared that barrier in 1997 and 1999.World Athletics

2011 European Indoor Championships, where he placed eighth, aged 38 at the time.After retiring from athletics


Jesús Ángel García

  • Universiade Legends

  1991 Summer Universiade, Sheffield: men's 20km race walk, fifth place.

nevertheless occurred in the Olympic arena.At 51-years-old, he became the first person to compete in an athletics


Mike Rowbottom: Williams, Rudolph, Black - three doctor-defying athletes with champion attitudes

  • Inside the Blogs

Writing a report this week about the recreation and replacement of the Olympic gold medals won by Canada’s Percy Williams more than 40 years after they were stolen while on display, I was reminded of the pathos of the sprinter’s final years.

until she was 12 ©Getty ImagesSoon she was showing exceptional ability at school in basketball and athletics

he anchored the British 4x400m relay team that famously defeated the United States at the 1991 World Athletics

But Black resumed his athletics career, and in March 1985 Conway wrote again to his doctor: "I naturally


Duplantis raises his world pole vault record to 6.22m in Lavillenie's meeting at Clermont-Ferrand

  • Athletics

Mondo Duplantis cleared 6.22 metres tonight to add one centimetre to his own world pole vault record at the All Star Perche in Clermont-Ferrand - where the meeting director was his friend and rival Renaud Lavillenie, the previous world record holder.

Duplantis, who had his best season-opening height of 6.10m this year, won the competition in this World Athletics

breaking the record for the fastest pole vault hug in the process 👀pic.twitter.com/kFRgoBKTzL— World Athletics

2022 and 13 days later, he improved again to 6.20m in the same venue, when winning gold at the World Athletics

Championships.Four months later, he broke the world record outdoors for the first time, clearing 6.21m at the World Athletics


Tsegay misses world 3,000m record in Birmingham as Asher-Smith, Hodgkinson and Gourley set British records

  • Athletics

missed the women's world indoor 3,000 metres record by 0.09sec in Birmingham as the concluding World Athletics

🔥 pic.twitter.com/H7nZOoqYSZ— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 25, 2023And Gourley lowered

was broadly pleased with her final indoor flourish of the season - she has not entered the European Athletics

crowd at the #WorldIndoorTour Final in Birmingham 😎@BritAthletics pic.twitter.com/5XrpsOil0d— World Athletics

British record for @Neil_Gourley in the men's 1500m 🔥#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/3beIiE07ko— World Athletics




Quarter of tickets for 2023 World Athletics Championships already sold, says President of Hungarian Athletics

  • Budapest 2023

A quarter of the tickets for this summer's World Athletics Championships in Budapest have been sold since

Miklós Gyulai, President of the Hungarian Athletics Association and key member of the Budapest 2023 World

Athletics Championships Local Organising Committee, told AIPS:"I am pleased to announce that with less

of the Hungarian Athletics Association, Miklós Gyulai, says preparations are well underway ©World Athletics

The completion of the National Athletics Centre will create the most modern athletics centre in the region

, reviving the tradition of Hungarian athletics."