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World Athletics launches Ukraine Fund to support athletes' efforts to compete

  • Athletics

World Athletics has launched a Ukraine Fund in partnership with the International Athletics Foundation

supporting personnel can continue to train, qualify and participate in World Championship competitions.World Athletics

individual athletes and second being key athlete support personnel and immediate family members.World Athletics

It's only right that the athletics community provides whatever support we can to the athletes of Ukraine

President Sebastian Coe said.World Athletics believes up to 100 Ukrainian athletes will require financial

World Athletics, Diamond League, IAF and all the National Federations that offered us their help - this


Double Olympic 110m hurdler Allen signs up for NFL side Philadelphia Eagles

  • Athletics

Devon Allen, who missed an Olympic 110 metres hurdles medal by one place in Tokyo last summer, has been offered a contract by National Football League side Philadelphia Eagles.

Phoenix, Arizona, who was a promising wide receiver for the University of Oregon before concentrating on athletics

2016 before suffering another knee injury.In that same year of 2016 he won the National Collegiate Athletics

member of the United States team that set a world 4x100m record of 37.86sec at the inaugural World Athletics


USATF warns athletes they must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 27 to compete at Oregon22

  • Athletics

United States athletes hoping to take part in this summer’s World Championships in Oregon have been told they must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 27 in order to take part.

We ask that you review these carefully and please take note that World Athletics is mandating ALL participants

Therefore the USATF selection criteria includes a COVID-19 vaccination requirement to match the World Athletics

World Athletics is following The Center for Disease Control (CDC) definitions, which considers an individual

accepted 2-dose series…USATF has warned all athletes seeking to participate in this summer's World Athletics

It is expected that more information on World Athletics' COVID-19 protocols will be provided in the coming


IBU bans products containing fluor from 2022-2023 season onwards

  • Biathlon

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) has announced it has introduced a blanket ban on ski preparation products containing fluor at all events for the 2022-2023 season and beyond due to its "apparent health risks and environmental concerns connected to fluorine waxes".

Federations (NFs) and industry representatives at four World Cup events.It was also shown to the IBU Athletics



Jersey

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Not every Commonwealth Games team can return home with a glut of medals, but the smaller delegations can celebrate success in other ways.

Jersey could compete in 10 sports in Birmingham, with the first 16 athletes selected in October in athletics

, bowls, cycling, gymnastics, swimming and triathlon.Four more in athletics and cycling were added this

Games, while Rhys Pilley is due to become only the second male track cyclist to represent Jersey.In athletics


World champions Holloway and Lyles start outdoor season in USATF Bermuda Games

  • Athletics

200m titles on the home ground of Oregon this summer, start their outdoor season tomorrow as the World Athletics

Bahamas.American Holloway, who earned silver in Tokyo and got back to the gold standard in last month’s World Athletics

Richards.Olympic 100m hurdles champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico will compete in the opening World Athletics

goes in the triple jump.Jones is from Barbados, while Saunders and Bougard represent the US.The World Athletics

one-day competition series behind the Diamond League.Twelve meetings were confirmed as part of the World Athletics


Plaatjes, 1993 world marathon champion, opens first of two MOWA Oregon22 exhibitions in Portland

  • Collecting and Heritage

marathon title for the United States in 1993, helped cut the opening ribbon at the latest Museum Of World Athletics

exhibition in Portland today as part of the build-up to this summer’s World Athletics Championships

running his marathon personal best of 2hr 08min 58sec in Port Elizabeth on May 4, 1985, to MOWA’s World Athletics

I am honoured that my singlet is now part of the Museum of World Athletics and is on display in Portland

World Championships in Stuttgart.Sasha Spencer-Atwood, Director of Athlete Experience at the World Athletics

featuring track and field exhibits from 1908 to the present day, feature a small fraction of the World Athletics

Collection which is on permanent virtual display on MOWA’s online platform, accessible via the World Athletics


UK Sport establishes independent integrity service to handle complaints

  • Olympics

A new independent disclosure and complaints service pilot is to be established by UK Sport next month to deal with allegations of bullying, harassment, discrimination or abuse within sport.

was convinced the figure would "steadily increase" over the coming weeks.British governing bodies in athletics


Russian and Belarusian runners have access to Boston Marathon restricted

  • Athletics

Russian and Belarusian citizens who live in either country will not be allowed to run in the Boston Marathon, organisers have decided.

that International Federations ban Russian and Belarusian athletes outright from their events.World Athletics

have followed this recommendation, with Russian and Belarusian athletes unable to compete in World Athletics


Some key sessions already sold out as World Athletics Championships Oregon22 marks 100 days to go

  • Athletics

Tickets for some key sessions for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 have already sold out, organisers

The 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships will see the event hosted for the first time in

We are now in the final push to the World Athletics Championships, and we cannot wait for the action

MOWA has already established a 3D fully virtual museum of athletics that takes people on an interactive

journey through the history of athletics, highlighting legends of the sport including Paavo Nurmi, Jesse

The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 are expected to involve 2,000 athletes from more than 200


UK Prime Minister claims transgender athletes should not compete in women's sport

  • Cycling

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he does not believe transgender women should compete in female events, while a group of cyclists have written to the International Cycling Union (UCI) to rescind the governing body’s existing regulations on transgender participation.

UCI’s existing regulations were introduced in 2020, mirroring rules adopted by World Athletics.World Athletics

The head of the World Athletics medical department, the International Cycling Union medical director



Guyana

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

Guyana can trace its Commonwealth Games history right back to the inaugural edition in Hamilton in 1930.

struggling with injury.The only Commonwealth Games team from South America will be looking to compete in athletics

division at Tokyo 2020, with Pilgrim describing him as a "determined young man who wants to do well".In athletics

Pompey lives in the US but remains active in athletics in Guyana.Eight years after her gold in Manchester

they are included as part of South America.For example, the country is a member of the South American Athletics

Executive Committee.After attending high school in Jamaica and competing in the National Championships in athletics


Baala gets key role in FFA shake-up looking ahead to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

Mehdi Baala, the double European 1500 metres champion sanctioned by the French Athletics Federation (

interim DTN Anne Barrois in August 2021.Rousseau, a former professional cyclist, has been replaced by an athletics

, who won the European decathlon title in 2010, is the new high performance director for the French Athletics

Mekhissi-Benabbad at the 2011 Diamond League meeting in Monaco ©YouTubeHe was in Belgrade for last month’s World Athletics