Organisers of the Kobe 2022 World Para Athletics Championships have requested that the event to be postponed

Games.Officials in Kobe now wish to defer their hosting duties until 2024 and have asked World Para Athletics

situation presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Local Organising Committee of the Kobe 2022 World Para Athletics

of the Championships to the spring of 2024 to the International Paralympic Committee and World Para Athletics

reads.If the request it granted, it will mean there will be a four-year gap between the last World Para Athletics

twice - at Birmingham 1998 and London 2017.insidethegames has contacted the IPC and World Para Athletics

Ethiopian distance running legend Kenenisa Bekele has been announced as the star name in the men's field for the 2022 Boston Marathon, with the three-time Olympic champion being one of 12 runners having personal bests under the 2 hours 6 minutes mark.

Sports Week (GSW) Paris has been postponed by two months because of COVID-19 restrictions, with World Athletics

Rugby World Cup and 2025 Rugby League World Cup.As well as the postponement, GSW announced that World Athletics

The support of World Athletics and UCI is not only a powerful endorsement of Global Sports Week as a

William Penny Brookes, with the first event including sports such as athletics, football, cricket and

Back to topPast EventsWorld Indoor Athletics ChampionshipsBirmingham has twice hosted one of the most

important events on the track and field calendar - the World Indoor Athletics Championships.Both the

Feofanova, who cleared 4.80 metres to win gold.Marlon Devonish, from Coventry, won gold at the World Indoor Athletics

Krzewina clocked 3min 01.77sec.Warwickshire hurdler Andrew Pozzi won gold at the 2019 World Indoor Athletics

Another week, another non-answer from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

IOC is supposedly still investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, which saw Belarus athletics

Charges have been filed in a court in Manhattan in connection with the alleged distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to athletes for the purpose of cheating at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

to be Blessing Okagbare, underwent an out-of-competition blood collection as part of testing by the Athletics

Back in the day (actually more days than I care to remember) when I first embarked on a career in journalism, getting a sports story on the front page of a newspaper was a cause for celebration because it happened so rarely.

©Getty ImagesSimon’s niece, Martha Kelner, originally an award-winning sports writer principally on athletics

Norway's beach handball team, whose stand led to a change in the sport's uniform rules, and ski jumper Maren Lundby were among the winners at the country's sports awards.

Championships, claimed the female athlete of the year prize at the awards.Among the other winners was athletics

Thrower Róża Kozakowska, who won a gold and silver medal in athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics,

Portuguese Paralympian Carina Paim has received the Fair Play Mário Simas 2021 Award at the Panathlon Clube de Lisboa Gala for helping Japan's Aimi Toyama off the track after the T20 400 metres final at Tokyo 2020 when she collapsed with exhaustion.

The French Athletics Federation (FFA) has signed a four-year deal with Adidas for the company to become

replaces Asics, which had been the FFA's kit supplier since 2013, and athletes representing France in athletics

Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic and world medallist Deon Lendore has died at the age of 29 after being involved in a car accident in Texas in the United States.

killed in a car crash in Texas last night.Tributes have since been flooding in, including from World Athletics

Events in Almaty make one apprehensive for Kazakhstan; they should also act as a warning for the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Athletics was rather less impressive at 53.8 per cent, according to my scribblings.Aquatics suffered

Belarus has reportedly barred two cross-country skiers - including one who hopes to participate at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games - from international competition after accusing them of being supporters of the political opposition in the country.

criticism of her coaches.An IOC investigation into the NOCRB's role in the incident, which saw Belarus athletics

Scott Goodman is set to end his 11-year tenure as high-performance director of Athletics New Zealand

March but will formally step down from his post after the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in August, Athletics

the strength and depth of the sports and drove the full integration of Para athletics.Since joining Athletics

NZ in 2011, Goodman has overseen a successful period for the sport in New Zealand.The nation’s athletics

high-performance culture and can be very proud of their achievements during their time with us," said Athletics

We wish them both the very best and know they will continue to support Athletics NZ in the years ahead