Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma shattered the 25-year-old world indoor 3,000 metres record at the Pas-de-Calais meeting here tonight as he held off the challenge of Spain’s Mohamed Katir to clock 7min 23.81sec.

the European indoor 200m title in 20.36sec and it provided the highlight of this season’s fifth World Athletics

taking 1.09s off the previous mark of 7:24.90 set by #Kenya’s Daniel Komen in 1998.📸 credit: World Athletics

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/OCJVDklIv7— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 15, 2023Britain's

highly encouraging pointer for the Olympic and world record holder’s prospects at this summer’s World Athletics

Box on! Will this traditional phrase used by boxing referees after breaking up a clinch ever be heard again in Olympic Rings?

as many hope and believe, fisticuffs will be back on the Olympic menu.For the current chief of World Athletics

Calvin Yee has been appointed Chef de Mission of Team Fiji for the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG), four years after he had a reign as the general manager during the 2019 Pacific Games.

win nine medals.Yee is set to lead a team of eight athletes across four different sports, including athletics

General director of the German Athletics Association (DLV) Cheick-Idriss Gonschinska is aiming for his

country to finish top five in the athletics standings at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

Germany's performance at last year's World Athletics Championships was the final straw before it was

recognised that change is needed.Malaika Mihambo was Germany's only gold medallist at the World Athletics

country's only gold in the women's long jump.Germany has not managed to reach top five in the Olympic athletics

medals including seven golds which is hoped to provide a good platform to perform at this year's World Athletics

Lawyers for those trapped by crowd chaos at the stadium set to be used for athletics and rugby sevens

start, but it simply does not go far enough," Winterburn declared.The Stade de France is due to host athletics

France will be closed early in 2024 to allow the necessary alterations including the installation of the athletics

The 2024 International School Sports Federation (ISF) Gymnasiade logo was displayed for the first time at the Bahrain National Theatre as the tournament is set to be held in the Gulf nation.

80 countries taking part in 25 different sports.The sports programme for the Gymnasiade will include athletics

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has claimed that she has received "zero" support from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since defecting to Poland at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

national team's coaches.Athletics head coach at Tokyo 2020 Yury Maisevich was recently charged by the Athletics

Tsymanouskaya had been supported by "the Olympic Movement, represented by the Polish NOC and the Polish Athletics

The Polish Athletics Federation is applying to World Athletics for a change of sports nationality, so

that she can represent Poland in international athletics events and seek to qualify for the Olympic

 "She is supported by the Polish NOC and the Polish Athletics Federation.

France's largest sports stadium the Stade de France is set to be unavailable for use from start of next year until the beginning of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to allow preparatory work to take place.

Saint-Denis-based venue is set to have a capacity of 77,083 for the duration of Paris 2024, hosting events in athletics

and rugby sevens at the Olympics and Para athletics at the Paralympics.France's RMC Sport has reported

to Marseille's Stade Vélodrome.Preparations on the Stade de France, including the installation of an athletics

another reported potential host for matches.A running track for the Stade de France, a former World Athletics

World Cups, and is set to be used as a venue again for the tournament later this year.The 2003 World Athletics

Ukrainian Olympic bronze medallist Olha Saladukha has suggested that International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach should learn from history when deciding if Russian and Belarusian athletes are allowed to compete at Paris 2024.

Commonwealth Games silver medallist Peter Bol's provisional suspension for doping has been lifted meaning he can return to competition with immediate effect, although Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) is still investigating the runner.

represented Kenya and the United States, threatened to sue what was then the International Association of Athletics

UEFA has apologised for events at Paris 2024 venue the Stade de France in the run-up to the 2022 Champions League Final after an independent report concluded they were at fault for chaotic scenes outside the venue.

The Stade de France is scheduled to host athletics and rugby sevens competitions during the Paris 2024

Olympics, and Para athletics during the Paris 2024 Paralympics.The Paris 2024 Olympics are due to take

British Olympic and Paralympic athletes training for Paris 2024 have been given extra funding with one year to go.

sitting volleyball, softball, volleyball, water polo and wrestling have been categorised as NSSF.Archery, athletics

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has insisted "communications channels must be kept open" with Belarus and Russia during the escalating war in Ukraine after a controversial visit to Minsk.

Games, but has been mooted as a possible host for 2036.Its capital Budapest is due to stage the World Athletics

Devon Allen's sense of excitement as he spoke on the eve of last year's Diamond League meeting in Paris was palpable - and understandable.

Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, he was asked as many questions about American Football as he he was about athletics

National Football League team Philadelphia Eagles.First, however, he was looking forward to the World Athletics

as an athlete and American footballer for the University of Oregon.As things turned out, that final athletics

not an active player in the grand finale.As he was at pains to point out in Paris, he has not quit athletics

of Fame in 1972 after a stellar 14-year career.Willie Gault, who won 200m bronze in the first World Athletics

Heristone Wanyonyi Wafula, who in 2021 became the first Kenyan race walker to win a world title in any age category as he claimed world under-20 gold in the men’s 10 kilometres event in Nairobi, is set on an African Games and World Championship double this year.

Wanyonyi, who finished fourth in the senior men’s 10km at last year’s World Athletics Race Walking Team

I’m now done with police training because it was not easy to balance athletics and college."

Games Accra Ghana, and @world_athletics Championships Budapest, Hungary pic.twitter.com/J2lSg1AKkK— Athletics

Elsewhere in Athletics Kenya’s first track and field weekend meeting of the season the women’s national