the Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza in Elgoibar with victories on a wet and muddy day on the World Athletics

Emerging first from the finish of the women's race in Spain - which ended with a short section on an athletics

Despite lacking a host for the looming 2026 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham 2022 is the focus of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), its chief executive has insisted.

January 9, 2022Thanks to the radical Strategic Roadmap adopted by the CGF last year, only swimming and athletics

athletes in 2021 have been officially recognised as the inaugural 50 kilometres world records by World Athletics

the first woman to run the distance in fewer than three hours.At July's 225th meeting of the World Athletics

Namibian teenage sprinter Christine Mboma has been voted the BBC African Sports Personality of the Year for 2021, becoming the first woman to win the accolade after a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

performance was notable as she was forced to transition to the 200m from her preferred 400m after World Athletics

It is unbelievably exciting that today marks just 200 days to go to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It means, in a little over six months, 4,500 of the world’s top athletes from 19 sports will be heading to the West Midlands to compete in one of the biggest sporting competitions on the planet.

redevelopment of the prestigious venue that will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as the athletics

 Post-Games, it will host some of the biggest athletics competitions on the planet, while simultaneously

Athletics Australia could set up an initiative that allows Para athletes to have their equipment reused

Australia.An Athletics Australia spokesperson confirmed they did not have a formal programme in place

©Getty Images"Para athletics, and in fact, many Para sports face this challenge, whereby athletes with

While Athletics Australia does not currently have a formal equipment program in place, we work with many

It is something that has been discussed with the launch of The Athletics Foundation just a few months

Donors and benefactors can donate to The Athletics Foundation, and specify where they would like the

the British team for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics, following her transition from a career in athletics

Going through school, I had nothing sport-related, and it wasn't until later on in life I found athletics

Some of Kenya's most prominent distance runners are on the start list for the latest leg of the World Athletics

The University of Stirling swimmers Duncan Scott and Kathleen Dawson - who both won gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - have been recognised in the New Honours List, becoming Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

the first woman to represent Trinidad and Tobago in judo at the Games and Ben Rowlings competed in athletics

Tokyo 2020 high jump bronze medallist Paralympics bronze medallist Sharad Kumar kicked off the Paralympic leg of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Meet the Champions" initiative at a school in Kerala today.

of 1.83 metres.The scheme began in December, launched by Neeraj Chopra, who won India's first-ever athletics

One hundred years ago this week on a winter’s afternoon at Wembley in North London, a simple ceremony marked the beginning of work on what was to become one of the most famous sporting arenas in the world.

construction and a giant exhibition was planned to showcase the British Empire.Wembley Stadium hosted athletics

gold in the stadium as horses were permitted on the famous turf.The main stadium attraction had been athletics

Birmingham as their preferred candidate.In the 1990s, there was a successful bid for the 2005 World Athletics

modernised Wembley was to be the venue but plans fell through, much to the irritation of the international athletics

Tokyo 2020 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist is to race at this year's European Championships in Munich, the Dutch athlete has admitted.

silver respectively.Speaking in an interview with Dutch broadcaster NOS, Bol said: "That [the 2022 World Athletics

 "At the European Athletics Championships, I hope to have held on to that peak and to put in another

outdoor50.6750.374x400m3:24.013:23.744x400m indoors3:27.154x400m mixed3:18.043:10.36 pic.twitter.com/CUiSV8gzFd— European Athletics

last year, running a European-leading indoor time and national record of 50.63.Bol was named European Athletics

Ethiopia dominated the Campaccio leg of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour, winning both the men's

Malaysia's Chef de Mission for Birmingham 2022 is a rugby man, and clearly remembers his country going up against the might of New Zealand at their home Kuala Lumpur 1998 Commonwealth Games.

©Getty ImagesIt is hoped that around 200 athletes will represent the country, in diving, swimming, athletics

At the Olympics, some of our athletes did very well in cycling, athletics and diving."

When Joshua Cheptegei crossed the line first to win gold in the 5,000 metres at Tokyo 2020, he confirmed Uganda's best-ever Olympic performance.

We want to defend the medals we won at Gold Coast 2018, and also get some more, but not only in athletics

to send a delegation of between 120 and 140 people to Birmingham, with places already confirmed in athletics

hoping the country's track stars will all compete in Birmingham, but the close proximity of the World Athletics

 Birmingham 2022 is due to open just four days after the end of the flagship World Athletics event

World Athletics are holding their key competition around the same time in Oregon, so we are working to