Lamine Diack, the disgraced former chief of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF

), now known as World Athletics, has died aged 88.

Diack, who led athletics' world governing body from 1999 to 2015 and a former member of the International

/€12.5 million) to his companies while his father led the IAAF, and Diack were ordered to pay World Athletics

breach of trust.Judge Rose-Marie Hunault, who sentenced Diack, said he had "undermined the values of athletics

World Athletics acknowledged the death of Diack in a one-sentence statement."

Following confirmation from the Confederation of African Athletics, we note the death of Lamine Diack

to take gold for Brazil in the women's pole vault ©Agencia.Xpress MediaAlencar Chagas ensured more athletics

Seoul Marathon winner Park Min-ho has targeted a medal at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games to put South Korean distance running back on the map.

COVID-19 pandemic.The last staging was in March 2019 with the race boasting platinum status from World Athletics

holder Michael Johnson are the prize item in the latest batch of acquisitions for the Museum of World Athletics

To mark this week’s 226th World Athletics Council meeting in Monaco, a special heritage display was staged

by Michael Johnson at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics forms part of the latest prize exhibit in the World Athletics

custom-designed shoes made with the ground-breaking thermoplastic Zytel now form part of the World Athletics

Hunt added: "I visited the Heritage Exhibition while at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha

Michael gave me after some of his most memorable races, I hope to have helped fill that gap in the World Athletics

Olympic and World Championship gold medallist Nesta Carter has received a four-year ban following a positive test for the banned substance clomiphene.

Norway and Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica have been named World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics

athlete of Tokyo 2020.That choice was criticised by the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics

(@WorldAthletics) December 1, 2021Warholm produced one of the landmark achievements in athletics history

Thompson-Herah said that next year’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon was her "next big target

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe paid tribute to 2021's "jaw-dropping performances" during today's

events who died unexpectedly in October, the Jean-Pierre Durand World Athletics Photograph of the Year

internationally as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) will double in 2022 to a maximum of 20, the World Athletics

recommendation of the Russian Taskforce charged with overseeing the return to the fold of the Russian Athletics

Olympics.The scheme was suspended as the RusAF was hit by further corruption scandals in 2020, but the World Athletics

Championships in Oregon in July and World Athletics Indoor Championships due to be held in Belgrade

in March.Russian Taskforce chair Rune Andersen has reported to World Athletics Council members that there

about the RusAF’s progress towards meeting the conditions for reinstatement to membership of World Athletics

No one should be surprised to learn that Lord Sebastian Coe is vehemently opposed to boycotts. He made this abundantly clear yet again in a recent interview with the Today Programme when asked whether the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing should be shunned because of China's wretched record on human rights, culminating in the ongoing mystery over the welfare of its leading female tennis player, Peng Shuai.

the end, he says, it is only sport itself that will be damaged.The man who now presides over World Athletics

that establishing South Africa as a sporting pariah helped expedite the abolition of apartheid.World Athletics

Glasgow has been awarded the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and the World Athletics U20 Championships

in the same year will be held in Lima, the World Athletics Council decided today.

European Indoor Championships in 2019 at Emirates Arena, alongside Celtic Football Club, and World Athletics

which is widely regarded as one of the best athletics venues in the world."

World Athletics has demonstrated their confidence in the UK to host global athletics championships once

Federation, Javier Chirinos Hoyos, said this was a big moment for athletics in Peru."

for trusting us to host the World Athletics U20 Championships in 2024."

Bahrain is set to host the fourth edition of the Asian Youth Para Games with an Opening Ceremony launching the event tomorrow.

800 athletes under the age of 20 expected to take part.They are expected to compete in nine sports - athletics

ParalympicIndia) December 1, 2021The multi-use Khalifa Sports City Stadium in Isa Town is expected to host athletics

Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee (COA) President Abderrahmane Hammad has held talks with the country's South Korean Ambassador Kim Chang-mo.

The pair discussed bilateral relations and cooperation in sport, with focus given to athletics, football

officials also met with Kim, including vice-president Yacine Louail, the President of the Algerian Athletics

C J Hunter, the former husband of disgraced sprinter Marion Jones, has died at the age of 52.

North Carolina, and he was a coach.The pair married in 1998 and were the most high-profile couple in athletics

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the delay of the seventh PNG Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony until 2022.

crisis.Three people were inducted into the Hall of Fame in December 2020 - Takale Tuna and Wavala Kali from athletics

speed skating at the World Cup Skate Track in Cali ©Agencia.Xpress MediaThe Junior Pan American Games' athletics

Pedro Nunes Rodrigues and Luiz da Silva claimed a one-two finish in the men's javelin at the Junior Pan American Games here in Cali.

The brilliant Brazilians dominated in the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium as it hosted the first athletics

medallist at the inaugural Junior Pan American Games.The men's javelin event marked the beginning of athletics