Solomon Islands made history at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and will compete at Birmingham 2022 with one eye on their own hosting duties.

Coast 2018 ©Getty ImagesAs well as weightlifting, Solomon Islands will also be competing in aquatics, athletics

A new circuit of athletics meetings designed to help popularise the sport in the build-up to the 2028

revealed by Max Siegel, the chief executive of USA Track & Field (USATF), with the aim of making athletics

country’s fifth-most-followed sport by the time of Los Angeles 2028.The plan has been backed by World Athletics

and soccer 47 per cent, track and field would need to surpass swimming, tennis and motor racing.World Athletics

ambitions to help popularise the sport in the United States ©Getty ImagesCoe believes that what gives athletics

He hopes that the current World Athletics Championships being staged in Eugene in Oregon, the first time

1500 metres gold medallist Jacob Ingebrigtsen to the world title in Eugene on a sensational evening of athletics

Australia took gold in the high jump and Slovenia's Kristjan Ceh won the discus as day five of the World Athletics

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/ZJ9htQAHbA— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 20, 2022Having

22-year-old Alison dos Santos earns a breakthrough gold in the men's 400m hurdles final at the World Athletics

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/dSISIzOk75— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 20, 2022Patterson

Vanuatu’s Para athlete Elie Enock has claimed she would not have achieved her dream of reaching this year's Commonwealth Games here without the Gather, Adjust, Prepare, Sustain (GAPS) programme.

A total of 34 athletes competing in athletics, table tennis and powerlifting participated in the GAPS

British sprinter Adam Gemili, who said after failing to qualify for the World Athletics Championships

that he had "taken a battering" in relation to the decision to stick with Reider, which cost him UK Athletics

second right, helped Britain win a 4x100m relay world title in 2017 ©Getty ImagesReider, a former UK Athletics

ended, but Gemili and fellow sprinter Laviai Nielsen chose to stay and have since been removed from UK Athletics

to leave, The Guardian reported.The 52-year-old Californian had his accreditation blocked by World Athletics

Event security discovered a unaccredited person in the athlete warm up area," World Athletics confirmed

Kosovo has been accepted as a provisional member of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

boxers were denied entry to Serbia for last year's Men's World Boxing Championships, while at the World Athletics

Five reigning Olympic champions from four different continents underlined the global nature of athletics

as they won gold on day four of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

for silver.Tamberi, who got back into action sooner than Barshim and earned joint bronze at the World Athletics

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/1PWE8x62Pa— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 19, 2022Kipyegon

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/yZKXB5UtrM— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 19, 2022Rojas

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the silver and bronze medals, respectively ©Getty ImagesLaura Muir won her first medal at the World Athletics

 Gotytom Gebreslase matched the performance of fellow Ethiopian Tamirat Tola today as she won the women’s world marathon title in a Championship record of 2hr 18min 11sec.

Britain’s mark of 2:20:57 at the 2005 Helsinki World Championships.Her victory on Day Four of the World Athletics

#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/GegvJrwQk6— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 18, 2022Kenya

an effort of 58.29m, close to her 2017 personal best of 59.81 en route to bronze at the London World Athletics

The Austrian Paralympic Committee (ÖPC) welcomed 200 children and young people to the BSFZ Südstadt in Vienna for its second Talent Day.

Swimming, athletics, cycling, hand biking, wheelchair basketball, archery, wheelchair tennis, sailing

Japan’s team at the World Athletics Championships has been badly affected by COVID-19, with Hitomi Niiya

The Japan Association of Athletics Federations confirmed that Niiya had been obliged to withdraw after

isolation, usually for a minimum of five days, until they test negative.In a joint statement, World Athletics

, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations and local organisers said: "Steps are being taken to

and detected hepatitis A.State officials expect around 30,000 people will visit Eugene for the World Athletics

Igniting the Games, the evolution of the Olympics and Thomas Bach's legacy, is the first overall assessment of the Olympic Movement under the leadership of its ninth President.

nine years of Olympic sport since Bach became International Olympic Committee (IOC) President.World Athletics

French President Emmanuel Macron has called a meeting with stakeholders in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics next Monday (July 25) to receive progress reports.

the UEFA Champions League final fiasco at the Stade de France - which is set to stage rugby sevens, athletics

bottlenecks and crushes.The Stade de France is also due to host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletics

Former International Skating Union (ISU) President Ottavio Cinquanta has died at the age of 83.

June 2014.Born on August 15 1938 in Rome, Cinquanta grew up in Milan where he practiced ice hockey, athletics

You can say what you like about the disqualification of Devon Allen from the world 110 metres hurdles final in Eugene for a false start - and many people have been - but it was certainly the polar opposite of a hometown, or TrackTown, decision.

his ambition was thwarted by a thousandth of a second - the margin by which he infringed the World Athletics

was hardly a flyer.Local hero Devon Allen was disqualified from the 110m hurdles final at the World Athletics

was similar in Eugene, where Allen was on the brink of doing something that would not only be big in athletics

had the previous evening’s clean sweep in the men’s 100m.It would have been the answer to the World Athletics

world governing body - then known as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) -