Several venues for this year's Asian Games in Hangzhou are scheduled to host National Championships this month.

The first of the three venues is the Hangzhou University Cangqian Athletics Field in the Yuahang district.This

When Valerie Adams - Dame Valerie since 2017 - announced her retirement to the press last Tuesday she did so in characteristically and literally down-to-earth fashion: "Today, I am here to share with you all that I'm officially hanging up these size 14 throwing shoes."

the hip over the controversial cuts and changes being proposed by the International Association of Athletics

Federations - which within three months would become World Athletics - to competition in general and

making so many changes over the years and I think it's good for the spectacular but it's not good for athletics

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 1, 2022"Let me tell you something - the throws - and Sandra

and Adams deputy chair of the Athletes' Commission,"While today marks the end of my shot-put career, athletics

A trip made by Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Dame Louise Martin and chief executive Katie Sadleir to odds-on 2026 host Victoria has been described as "positive and insightful".

hosted the 2006 Games.The sporting programme could be very different, too, as the CGF roadmap says that athletics

World Athletics has said it is on schedule to have a 50:50 gender split on the World Athletics Council

2021 involving nearly 600 participants - all taking place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.World Athletics

consists of seven modules that includes 55 lessons and eight hours of learning.Statistics on World Athletics

' website are default to women's events.The campaign looks to review the World Athletics Series event

relay.British marathon great Paula Radcliffe and long jumper Jazmin Sawyers both presented the World Athletics

Female World Athlete of the Year accolade, with it being the last prize awarded of the night.World Athletics

Kenya’s world record-holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei won the Tokyo Marathon with dominant performances as they posted the fastest times ever run in Japan.

North Carolina, bidding to host the 2027 Summer World University Games, has boosted its chances by recruiting some top swimming talent to its Alumni Committee.

gain could be vital.And in Trent Staley, the 2004 US national 200m backstroke champion who is on the Athletics

Morejon of Ecuador were respective men’s and women’s winners of the new 35-kilometres event at the World Athletics

Championship 35km race, finishing clear in 2hr 36min 14sec - naturally enough, a Championship record.As World Athletics

#WorldRaceWalking pic.twitter.com/gDIQHG7O7X— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 5, 2022That left

pic.twitter.com/s1D4LQwUhX— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 5, 2022Ikeda was second in 1:23:29

An Olympic Torch carried by David Beckham at the start of the London 2012 Torch Relay has been left unsold at an auction.

aloft an olive branch of peace in her free hand.Celebrated athletes then carried the Flame around the athletics

Sergey Bubka has claimed that "Ukraine will win" after the country was invaded by Russia.

Committee of Ukraine (NOCU), a member of the International Olympic Committee and vice-president of World Athletics

Tomorrow’s Tokyo Marathon, postponed due to COVID-19 concerns in March and then October last year, will be worth waiting for given that Kenya’s male and female world record holders Eliud Kipchoge and Brigid Kosgei will make their debuts in the event.

Ragnhild Myklebust, named last month as one of the first two Para-athletes to earn the PLY post-nominal letters after their name, did not let this inhibit her comment on the governing body’s volte face over allowing Russian and Belarus athletes to compete at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics.

indigenous athlete to compete in the Paralympics or Olympics who competed in wheelchair basketball and athletics

The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee (PNGOC) has appointed a senior management team for the Pacific Mini Games, with Kila Dick named Chef de Mission.

pandemic and Super Typhoon Yutu causing destruction on Saipan.Baseball, badminton, golf, triathlon, athletics

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has signed a cooperation agreement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that will run through 2024 in a bid to try out new initiatives together.

colleges.It includes strategy discussions with collegiate adaptive programmes in sports such as Para athletics

China dominated the opening day of the 2022 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat

reflection for Ukraine with athletes from several nations holding up the Ukrainian flag, while World Athletics

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 4, 2022The 26-year-old Jiayu Yang, as expected, dominated the

#WorldRaceWalking pic.twitter.com/CzCHRjfNpP— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 4, 2022Soon afterwards

It was to be expected that the Paralympic Opening Ceremony would be superbly executed not least because it was masterminded by Zhang Yimou, the supremo behind Beijing's Olympic extravaganzas in 2008 and last month.

double swimming gold medallist Ma Jia, wheelchair basketball silver medallist Zhang Xuemei, four time athletics