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

Pan American Games champion Brian Pintado and past race winner Kimberly García León tasted victory in the Grande Prémio Internacional de Rio Maior em Marcha Atlética.

12th place.Pintado has had a fine 2022 to date, having helped Ecuador to men's 20km glory at the World Athletics

another podium finish for Portugal.García León had won this event in 1:31:00 in 2017.The event is a World Athletics

A redesigned Kids' Athletics programme has been launched to mark the inaugural Kids' Athletics Day.

World Athletics' programme was initially created in 2002, with the governing body saying the initiative

Developed by coaches, teachers and young people around the globe, Kids’ Athletics offers a uniquely fun

Our Kids' Athletics values are respect, determination, friendship and pride."

games and activities, as well as athletics skills cards.The latter seeks to introduce young people to

inaugural Kid’s Athletics Day was held today, with fun runs and exhibition events held.A World Athletics

Weissenberg lead at the halfway stage of the Ratingen Mehrkampf-Meeting, a Gold event on the World Athletics

competition.Switzerland's Simon Ehammer leads at the halfway stage of the decathlon at the Gold event on the World Athletics

There are now just 100 days until the European Athletics Championships as Munich continues to prepare

The European Athletics Championships are scheduled to unfold between August 15 and 21 at the Olympic

May 3) with various projections displayed at the Olympic Park.Munich previously hosted the European Athletics

We know Germany has a fantastic record of staging major athletics events," European Athletics President

We have very fond memories of the 2002 European Athletics Championships and the last championships in

I am sure the eyes of the athletics world will be focused on the Olympic Stadium in Munich this August

Home sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala won the concluding 100 metres at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi in 9.85sec - the fastest time of the season so far - to ignite scenes of joy in a crowd which included the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta.

US, who ran 9.76 - the two fastest times of 2021.The main part of the fourth of this season’s World Athletics

second as Norway's Karsten Warholm improved his own mark to 45.94.In the fifth of this season’s World Athletics

UK Athletics and England Athletics have named Water in a Box as their official water partner for events

Water in a Box is set to provide 30,000 cartons of water across nine competitions.England Athletics'

carbon-neutral aligns with our aim to support reduction of plastic use at all our events," England Athletics

Water in a Box is to provide 30,000 cartons of water for England Athletics and UK Athletics events ©Getty

Nigerian athlete Ifeanyichukwu Christian Madubuike has been banned for three years by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for an anti-doping rule violation.

collected, have been annulled, and all medals, points and prizes won forfeited.At the 2019 World Para Athletics

lane.Ifeanyichukwu Christian Madubuike of Nigeria placed seventh in the men's T47 100m at the 2019 World Para Athletics

Championships in Dubai ©Getty ImagesDuring last year's Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Athletics Federation

AFN) issued an apology after 10 athletes from the country were declared ineligible to compete by the Athletics

Roman Abramovich’s era as owner of Chelsea Football Club has officially come to an end after a deal was signed to sell the English outfit to a consortium fronted by American billionaire Todd Boehly in a £4.25 billion ($5.25 billion/€5 billion) takeover deal.

interest from consortiums led by American Stephen Pagliuca and British businessman Martin Broughton.World Athletics

Both the Chinese meetings on this season’s Diamond League schedule - in Shanghai and Shenzhen - have been cancelled due to continuing concerns over COVID-19, with Silesia stepping up to fill the gap.

soon.This year’s edition of Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia - which has previously staged World Athletics

“It has been very frustrating for Wanda, but they have been really good about it," World Athletics chief

Olympic sprint gold medallist Bruny Surin has been named Canada’s Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

won a 4x100 metres relay gold medal at Atlanta 1996, and has been a prominent figure in the Canadian athletics

the Tokyo 2020 Olympics when she lines up in Ratingen in Germany for the latest Gold leg of the World Athletics

decathletes who have exceeded 8,000 points.Kaul is entitled to a wildcard entry for this year’s World Athletics

the 2021 Combined Events Challenge.Should they both wish to compete, it will be down to the German Athletics

tomorrow and conclude on Sunday (May 8).Tomorrow is also set to see Rio Maior in Portugal stage a World Athletics

Marathon runners Georgina Schwiening and Jonny Mellor have been selected in England's squad for this year's home Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Schwiening managed to clock 2 hours 31min 35sec at the Manchester Marathon, which served as England Athletics

I’m extremely grateful to England Athletics and London Marathon for supporting me on this journey so

far.Mellor and Schwiening are the first members of England's athletics team to be selected."

Shooting Australia has announced that it has created a dedicated Commonwealth Games working group to ensure the sport is included on the programme at Victoria 2026.

May.The sports that are guaranteed a place at the competition are T20 cricket, swimming and diving, athletics

the COVID-19 pandemic.Under the agreed roadmap at the CGF General Assembly in October of last year, athletics

Nigel Avery, New Zealand's Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, has welcomed the changes which could make it easier for the country to host the event again.

(CGF) will now allow future hosts to organise sports across several cities or even countries, while athletics

To be able to say 'look you've only got to support two sports as a mandate, athletics and swimming' and