The United States thrived on the final day of the swimming events at the Deaflympics, claiming half of the golds on offer in Caxias do Sul in Brazil.

Argentina’s Emanuel Llanos and Ukraine’s Rostyslav Yakubovskyi.Several countries shared success in the athletics

If there was a gold medal for making friends and having fun at the Commonwealth Games, Mary Peters would have to be the top contender. There would be a long line of people wanting to present the medal, too.

years later, in Christchurch, Peters was an Olympic champion and one of the all-time greats of British athletics

There were many triumphs to come though, not just on the athletics track.

Peters' work in athletics and in the community during three decades of The Troubles in Northern Ireland

led to her being awarded an MBE and a CBE before she was made a Dame of the British Empire.A local athletics

Belgian sports technology experts have admitted the biggest challenge they face in the post-pandemic world is how to persuade sports fans to return to the stadium.

"It is going to be a fight in the coming years for sure," veteran journalist and athletics promoter Wilfried

Memorial Van Damme athletics founder Wilfried Meert, second right, believes sport needs to offer "added

Four world records were broken during the second meeting of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix season

Jesolo Grand Prix are subject to ratification from World Para Athletics.The next stop on the World Para Athletics

The Diamond League final will be held alternately in Brussels and Zürich between 2024 and 2027.

chance to win a Diamond Trophy.The Diamond League crown is billed as the most prestigious title in athletics

New meeting director Kim Gevaert has promised spectators will enjoy an assault on five-long distance world records at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels on September 2. 

Double Olympic heptathlon Nafi Thiam has spearheaded the latest surge of Belgian athletics stars.Thiam

won one of two athletics medals for Belgium at Tokyo 2020, with Bashir Abdi adding a bronze in the men's

Birmingham 2022 has begun work on temporary Games-time enhancements to the Alexander Stadium as the venue prepares to host events at the Commonwealth Games.

Closing Ceremonies, which will be held on July 28 and August 8, respectively.The venue will also host athletics

and Para athletics competition at the Games, with competition held at the venue from August 2 to 7.Temporary

sport, health, well-being and community activity.The facility has been billed as the home of British athletics

In athletics, in women’s athletics at least, it’s a kind of bumper-car embrace with optional "mwah mwah

Mexico's Lourdes Ponce Juarez claimed the first athletics gold medal of the Deaflympics in Caxias do

Simon Ehammer and Germany’s Sophie Weissenberg preserved their overnight leads to triumph at the World Athletics

in fourth with her total of 5,745.Bydgoszcz in Poland is set to host another Gold event on the World Athletics

World Athletics plans to maximise the nationwide appeal of this summer’s World Championships in Oregon

time with NBC planning their coverage and how, hopefully, we can use Oregon22 as a catalyst to grow athletics

in their other programming strands so we connect their huge audience with athletes outside the usual athletics

World Athletics are discussing with NBC ways of reaching beyond the "athletics bubble" in coverage of

estimate there are 50 million people that run in America, but often they don’t associate themselves with athletics

working on ideas to try and connect with the younger, Gen Z generation to see if we can convert them into athletics

World Athletics chief executive Jon Ridgeon has praised the attitude and support of the Diamond League

Silesia meeting which has its main domain in the swiftly growing second tier of the circuit, the World Athletics

We’ve not been able to stage the events in China, but they’ve been really good about it.World Athletics

Meanwhile the World Athletics Continental Tour continues to thrive and grow.Latest figures reveal that

On Thursday (May 13) Doha is due to host the opening Diamond League meeting of the season at the Qatar Sports Club Stadium.

since when the series, while retaining its core aspiration of being the main circuit for international athletics

Federations (IAAF), which became World Athletics in 2019, superseded the previous vehicle for the elite

athletics circuit, the IAAF Golden League.It comprised 14 one-day meetings involving 16 men’s and 16

Continental Tour Gold meetings.As World Athletics chief executive Jon Ridgeon acknowledged, it has been

Athletics is a traditional sport, and changes can be painful.

The Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (ZOC) has named 10 recipients of International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Solidarity scholarships for the Paris 2024 cycle.

Wezlar represented his country in the men’s 100m freestyle.Ngoni Makusha competed in the men’s 100m in athletics

Christian Coleman marked his first 100 metres since winning the world title in 2019 with victory at the Golden Grand Prix today in Tokyo’s National Olympic Stadium, even though he looked less than comfortable in clocking 10.09 seconds.

of Nairobi had topped this year's world list.Earlier in the day at the fifth of this season’s World Athletics