Kenya’s world record holder Brigid Kosgei, who earned marathon silver at the Tokyo 2020 Games just over eight weeks ago, says she is well prepared to seek a third consecutive London Marathon victory on Sunday (October 3).

finish.She missed the Tokyo trials in March this year due to a bone stress in her femur and British Athletics

Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to board a flight home to Minsk - are under investigation by the Athletics

Belarus athletics head coach Yuri Moisevich and team official Artur Shumak were expelled from the Games

Maisevich, as a provisional measure during the Games, the IOC and World Athletics have jointly agreed

To this effect, and given that the Olympic Games have now concluded, it has been decided that the Athletics

Integrity Unit (AIU) - the independent body created by World Athletics to manage all integrity issues

(both doping-related and non-doping-related) for the sport of athletics - will conduct the procedure

Yuri Borzakovsky will move to the position of Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) sports director, effective

On September 30, the head coach of the Russian national athletics team, Yuri Mikhailovich Borzakovsky

President, with a view to returning once sanctions expired.The National Federation was suspended by World Athletics

million/€5.28 million) owed.Its reinstatement process is now underway.In March this year, the World Athletics

Manuela Schär, fresh from winning the women's wheelchair race at the Berlin Marathon, is set on adding a further title in London on Sunday when she faces a field including the athlete who narrowly beat her in last year’s race, Nikita den Boer.

Greg Rutherford has been named in the British bobsleigh team for the forthcoming World Cup season as he looks to become the first athlete from his country to win both Summer and Winter Olympic medals.

long jump gold at London 2012, and followed it up with a bronze at Rio 2016.Rutherford retired from athletics

Birhanu Legese, the third-fastest marathon runner of all time, will seek to mark his London Marathon debut this Sunday (October 3) by breaking the course record.

The Djibouti National Olympic Committee (CNOSD) President Aïcha Garad Ali has met the country's French ambassador Arnaud Guillois at the chancellery building to discuss preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

to the CNOSD as it looks forward to the Games in three years' time and help with the development of athletics

men's marathon for Houssein Ahmed Salah at Seoul 1988.It sent four athletes to Tokyo 2020 - two in athletics

Namibia's Olympic silver medallist Christine Mboma and her compatriot Beatrice Masilingi have spoken about their bans from the 400-metre event at Tokyo 2020, describing it as "a very bad experience", "quite disturbing" and "hard to understand."

At the start of July, a World Athletics assessment found they had differences in sexual development (

for the Games.Mboma has triumphed in two Diamond League events in Brussels and Zürich and two World Athletics

Since Tokyo 2020, Mboma won the women's 200m at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in the Kenyan

and 200m.Mboma has also triumphed in two Diamond League events in Brussels and Zürich and two World Athletics

Caio Vinicius Da Silva Pereira of Brazil has been stripped of the F12 shot put gold medal he claimed at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima after his sample from the event tested positive for a banned substance.

Pereira's gold had been one of 82 medals won by Brazil in athletics at the Games in the Peruvian capital.Brazil

Next year's International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) 100 kilometre World Championships will be held in the German capital Berlin and nearby Bernau, while Sotillo de la Adrada in Spain and the Australian capital Canberra will host upcoming continental championships, it has been announced.

UNESCO) World Heritage Sites.The event will be organised by the German Ultramarathon Union and German Athletics

Athletics.The 100km World Championships is the IAU's flagship event, with the distance recognised by World Athletics

play host to next year's IAU 50km European Championships.These will be organised by the Royal Spanish Athletics

The hero on the first ever day of what became the Commonwealth Games had the whole stadium roaring him home, despite the fact that he was from many thousands of miles away.

for the 1928 Olympics despite him being national champion at a mile and three miles.The NZ Amateur Athletics

World Athletics has partnered with Sport and Sustainability International (SandSI), announcing the creation

something that directly impacts the 1.4 billion people around the world who run regularly," said World Athletics

major cities around the world including Los Angeles and Beijing ©Getty ImagesJoining SandSI and World Athletics

Britain's multiple Paralympic Games medallist Kadeena Cox is excited at the prospect of competing in front of a home crowd at next year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and hopes to "achieve something special" during a congested calendar.

and Para athletics events at Birmingham 2022, is being expanded from a capacity of 12,700 to around

Cox competes in Para athletics and Para cycling, and has won Paralympic and world titles in both.At Rio

with a fourth-placed finish in the women's 400m T38.Cox has also won three golds at the World Para Athletics

Next year's going to be hectic, I've got Cycling World Championships, the Europeans in athletics, the

Commonwealth Games, then the athletics worlds," Cox said."

The Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC) has paid tribute to its former President and Honorary President Rukma SJB Rana, following his death earlier this month at the age of 85.

headed the National Sports Council, Nepal Taekwondo Association (NTA), Nepal Football Association, Nepal Athletics

The 2021 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games, scheduled for October 10 to 12 in Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal, have been cancelled due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions.

The IWAS World Games were previously held in Vila Real de Santo Antonio in 2017.Athletics, powerlifting