Ulrike Meyfarth, Jarmila Kratochvílová, Steve Ovett and Seb Coe were amongst the winners at the 1981 Athletics

Yet perhaps the biggest victor that week was the Italian athletics official Primo Nebiolo, who had been

s President Sandro Pertini, Nebiolo had just succeeded Dutchman Adriaan Paulen as the head of World Athletics

plot was hatched by Adidas supremo Horst Dassler to ensure that Nebiolo won the race to lead World Athletics

This was to be followed by an official World Athletics Championships, which were to be held quadrennially

Paulen bought the bluff," wrote veteran athletics writer John Rodda.

Hug won the men's F54 800m final as Switzerland won three gold medals in the space of an hour on the athletics

Marcel Hug claimed his third title at this year's Paralympics here in Tokyo as Switzerland enjoyed a golden night on the track at the Olympic Stadium.

Paris 2024 has officially submitted a request to include Paralympic sports to the emoji language ensuring a further representation of the disabled community.

 Athletics, blind football, swimming and wheelchair tennis are the four sports that Paris 2024 has

If you’re not Swedish, and you’re not Finnish, it is probably hard to understand what the annual athletics

Inaugurated in Helsinki in 1925, this is the oldest annual international athletics dual match between

sporting equivalent I can summon up in terms of expressing how both nations feel about this impending athletics

/Swede Battle.The event is organised in the same fashion as the European Cup, latterly the European Athletics

Meanwhile Chris Turner of World Athletics, the self-styled "madfinnglishman", recently tweeted that in

the earliest days of this event, these two Nordic neighbours were among the most powerful athletics

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has promised the country will be ready to host the 2023 African Games after cutting the first sod on the $145 million (£105 million/€122 million) sports complex being built for the event in Ghana.

volleyball.A tennis centre with five courts, including a 1,000-capacity centre court, a six-lane warm up athletics

With the Government determined to bring back the glory days of Ghanaian sports, in athletics, boxing,

Sports by the University of Ghana, including a 50,000-capacity Olympic Stadium to host the Ceremonies, athletics

Mondo Duplantis and Sifan Hassan, of whom world records are nowadays expected almost as a default, will be in the field at Brussels tomorrow night in the last Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season before the Final in Zurich from September 8 to 9 – and either of them could indeed deliver.

Niyonsaba, the Rio 2016 800m silver medallist now racing at longer distances in line with the World Athletics

Iran’s Hashemiyeh Motaghian Moavi has said she is now looking forward to next year’s Asian Para Games in Hangzhou in China after winning gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in the women’s F56 javelin.

javelin throw on Tuesday (August 31).She previously won two silver medals in the event at the World Para Athletics

call of the city’s Mayor, Gergely Karácsony, to withdraw its approval for hosting of the 2023 World Athletics

Karácsony’s resolution reads: "The capital of Budapest does not want to be the host city of the 2023 World Athletics

support of the Government.In its own statement, the MASZ said that "only a member of the international athletics

Accordingly, it was MASZ that applied for and won the right to organise the 2023 World Athletics Championships

Government takes further action against the capital, Budapest will not undertake to hold the World Athletics

We hope that the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 will not become a political football."

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has released its full decision following the four-year ban handed to American runner Shelby Houlihan, which says her explanation "presupposes a cascade of factual and scientific improbabilities".

of the nandrolone metabolite in her sample.The 28-year-old received her four-year sanction from the Athletics

of no significant fault or negligence," CAS said.Houlihan finished fourth in the 1500m at the World Athletics

Musa Taimazov earned another Para athletics gold for the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) at the Tokyo

RPC Para athlete had previously secured a bronze medal in the men’s F51 club throw at the World Para Athletics

Championships in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2019.He finished fourth in the European Para Athletics

2012 to 2017 and winning the national championships three times.The new Paralympic champion began Para athletics

Russian Federation title.His success was the Russian Paralympic Committee’s 11th gold medal in Para athletics

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has launched its new website, www.nigeriaolympic.org, which features an array of information on the Olympic Movement in the country and ushers in a new era for the organisation, it is claimed. 

 The first saw that Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced that Nigeria had failed to meet the

Viktoriia Ishchiulova secured a 15th Para-swimming gold of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games for the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), triumphing in the women's S8 50 metres freestyle.

Ishchiulova clinched bronze medals in the S8 100m butterfly and SM8 200m individual medley at the World Para Athletics

Galina Lipatnikova took the Russian Paralympic Committee's (RPC) medal tally in Para-athletics at Tokyo

Spain, who earned silver with a 9.62m throw.The 37-year-old Russian picked up silver at the World Para Athletics

Championships in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2019, when she threw 10.36m.At the European Para Athletics

title, and competed in Para-swimming at a regional level.She began competing internationally in Para-athletics

Ukraine’s Vladimir Golubnichiy, a double Olympic race walking gold medallist, has died at the age of 85, it has been announced.