Sweden's pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis and 400m hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone of the United States, world champions and record-breakers this season, were tonight named as respective men's and women's World Athlete of the Year.

record to 6.19 metres in Belgrade.He returned to the Serbian capital two weeks later for the World Athletics

#AthleticsAwards pic.twitter.com/5p60dgiLcX— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 5, 2022Less

year, I had really high expectations of myself and I had some really big goals," Duplantis told World Athletics

trials in 51.41.Less than a month later she returned to the same track in Eugene for the 2022 World Athletics

#AthleticsAwards pic.twitter.com/g4u74AOFrh— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) December 5, 2022It had

Organisers of the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games have revealed that athletics will now take place at the

French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) President Brigitte Henriques is expected to lead a meeting in-person next Tuesday (December 13) for the first time since taking sick leave almost two months ago.

Brigitte Henriques has been on sick leave ©Getty Images"The situation must be regularised," French Athletics

Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov is one of only three Presidents of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to be invited to the Olympic Summit in Lausanne later this week, despite his country's invasion of Ukraine, it was announced here today. 

Federations are also invited.They include Gianni Infantino and Sebastian Coe, Presidents of FIFA and World Athletics

Fears over the heat have led Japanese organisers to announce that the 2025 World Athletics Championships

World Athletics initially wanted the meet at the National Stadium to be held in late August, but it now

 Last month, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe had pledged that all the medal events during

due to the hot conditions ©Getty ImagesThis will be the second time that Tokyo has hosted the World Athletics

, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.Tokyo last hosted the World Athletics

World Championships will have taken place in Japan.Mitsugi Ogata, President of the Japan Association of Athletics

Less than a year after home pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale finished sixth in the London 2012 Olympic final her career turned golden at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg.

had been awarded the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) Fair Play Award as part of the World Athletics

Awards 2022.At this summer’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon Bradshaw was injured as she warmed

of the award came a couple of days after the release of an Online Abuse Study commissioned by World Athletics

driven by events outside of competition - athletes were targeted over controversies associated with athletics

Championships in Oregon whose social media posts were monitored in an Online Abuse Study commissioned by World Athletics

The President of the Ukrainian Athletics Association, Yevhen Pronin, has revealed that soldiers on the

Mahuchikh, 20, won gold on March 19 at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, having had

Speaking after he received the World Athletics President’s Award in Rome last week from Sebastian Coe

And I asked them, ‘to look at live athletics on the front line, why?’

President @sebcoe and Ukrainian Athletic Association President @YevhenPronin at the World Athletics

Ukraine athletes have been represented at all the World Athletics series events this season, as well

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has announced the induction of athletics

holds the national records in the women's 1500 metres, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 metres and half marathon in athletics

into the Fiji Sports Hall of Fame ©FASANOCBower receives the Olympic Order after years of teaching athletics

And the winner of the women’s high jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships is celebrating with

And I asked them, ‘to look at live athletics on the front line, why?’

The Ukraine Relief Fund, which was launched in April by World Athletics, the International Athletics

Pronin went on: "European Athletics and World Athletics helped us because they set up a Foundation and

With World Athletics and European Athletics and other sponsors we have started to organise camps in all

And we see the bright people from the athletics family."

Graham Edmunds has been elected as a Board member of the British Paralympic Association (BPA), with Anne Wafula Strike and Helen Rowbotham re-elected to their positions as non-executive directors.

Strike has served on the BPA Board since 2018, and also holds roles as a non-executive director of UK Athletics

have been awarded the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) Fair Play Award as part of the World Athletics

Awards 2022, with the Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt) taking the Member Federation prize.

British Olympic bronze medallist Bradshaw was injured in a warm-up session at the World Athletics Championships

Member Federations Award, the sixth honour of the #AthleticsAwards pic.twitter.com/753gl3UdeU— World Athletics

It is a delight for the Brazilian Athletics Confederation to be able to take care of athletes, enabling

We have 60 grass roots athletics training centres, where we introduce the sport to children from six

has introduced new competition rules including bringing its regulations on shoes in line with World Athletics

next year.The rules on the use of customised running shoes and prototype designs will mirror World Athletics

Triathlon Multisport Championships.At other World Triathlon events, they can be worn if approved by World Athletics

as a development shoe, the event is scheduled within World Athletics' approved dates and the World Triathlon

customised shoes.Athletes will be subject to random shoe checks to confirm that they are legal.World Athletics

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has announced the winners of its 2020 and 2022 Team USA Collegiate Impact Awards.

The collegiate athletics system is essential to growing and keeping sport strong in our country," said

Olympic kayak gold medallist Ken Wallace has been named Australia's Chef de Mission for next year's Pacific Games.

Samoa, as well as being a deputy at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ©Getty ImagesThe AOC plans to send archery, athletics

World record-holder Eliud Kipchoge has confirmed that he will make his debut in the Boston Marathon next year as he seeks to complete a grand slam of victories in the World Marathon Majors.