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Andrei Vdovin

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

Andrei Vdovin earned the Russian Paralympic Committee's (RPC) 26th gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games after breaking his own world record in the men's T37 400 metres.

competitor in the T37 sprint events for several years, winning nine gold medals across three World Para Athletics

event, which stood until he bettered it at Tokyo 2020.Vdovin also enjoyed success at the European Para Athletics

Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation title.Vdovin's gold was the RPC's ninth in Para-athletics


IPC slams "very abusive" social media comments over Ziyad being stripped of gold

  • Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has slammed "very abusive and ridiculous" social media comments following the decision to strip Malaysian shot putter Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli of his Paralympic Games gold medal at Tokyo 2020. 

World Para Athletics confirmed that Ziyad, Ecuador’s Jordi Patricio Congo Villalba and Australia’s Todd

as published in the call room schedule" will be shown in the results as "did not start".World Para Athletics

the gold medallist ©Getty ImagesThe trio appealed the decision only for it to be upheld by World Para Athletics



Vladimir Sviridov

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

Vladimir Sviridov earned the Russian Paralympic Committee's (RPC) eighth Para-athletics gold of Tokyo

Sviridov had previously thrown 16.32 metres at the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai in 2019

championship record throw of 15.92m.The new Paralympic champion has cerebral palsy.He first took up Para-athletics


Budapest Mayor calling on City Council to withdraw support for hosting 2023 World Athletics Championships

  • Athletics

capital’s City Council - tomorrow that it withdraws its approval for the city to host the 2023 World Athletics

referendum will be hold over the question of the Fudan University project.Hosting of the 2023 World Athletics

but now the city's mayor is asking for the capital to withdraw its support ©World AthleticsA World Athletics

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

The Hungarian Athletics Federation is proud to have won the right to host the 2023 World Athletics Championships

 "The whole Hungarian sporting community, the athletics family, is counting on it, and I still have


Anton Kuliatin

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

The Russian Paralympic Committee's (RPC) Anton Kuliatin is the men's T13 1500 metres Paralympic champion after triumphing in a closely fought race at the Japan National Stadium.

fine form after strong performances on the European and world stage in recent years.At the World Para Athletics

Championships, securing a bronze in Bydgoszcz with a new personal best of 50.49sec.The T11 to T13 Para-athletics

17 in his home city of Biysk, which he combined with playing amateur football, before switching to athletics


Tulu claims Ethiopian drug problems caused by athletes chasing "quick money"

  • Athletics

Double Olympic gold medallist Derartu Tulu has accused Ethiopian runners of chasing “quick money” and turning to performance-enhancing drugs to help them.

Ethiopia are one of seven countries currently listed as a category A nation by the Athletics Integrity

is seen as one of Tulu’s main tasks following her election as permanent President of the Ethiopian Athletics

distance runner Haile Gebrselassie.Doping products are reportedly easily available in Addis Ababa, World Athletics

In our time, we used to compete clean," Tulu told The Daily Nation in Kenya during the recent World Athletics

Athletics is changing, and we need to change with time," Tulu told The Daily Nation."



Evgenii Torsunov

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

Russian Paralympic Committee athlete Evgenii Torsunov won long jump T36 gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

world champion, having won long jump T36 gold at the 2019 and 2015 International Paralympic Committee Athletics

claimed silver in the 100 metres T36 and bronze in the 200m T36.The 31-year-old did not take up para athletics


Mike Rowbottom: Three Musketeers of pole vault run gamut of emotions in Paris

  • Inside the Blogs

The fascinating inner dynamics of the pole vault world were in evidence once again in Paris this weekend as the Diamond League continued on its European route to the concluding final in Zurich from September 8 to 9.

holder Mondo Duplantis - put on a carefully synchronised show from their own backyards that offered athletics

But almost in the same breath he insisted, quite rightly, that there is more to life, and to athletics


Anton Prokhorov

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

Russian Paralympic Committee's Anton Prokhorov won gold in the men's 100 metres T42 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

2020 Paralympics, Prokhorov's greatest achievement came in the 2015 International Paralympic Committee Athletics

relay in the same Championships.Prokhorov won the silver medal in the 100m T63 at the 2021 World Para Athletics


Dmitrii Safronov

  • Russian Summer Paralympic Athletes

Russian Paralympic Committee sprinter Dmitrii Safronov won 100 metres and 200m T35 gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Lyon in France in 2013 and in Doha in Qatar in 2015.In the 2019 International Paralympic Committee Athletics

 "I played football and she taught athletics and physical training with us at the same time.



Birmingham agrees 10-year deal with UK Athletics to stage marquee indoor events

  • Athletics

Birmingham City Council has agreed a 10-year deal with UK Athletics (UKA) to host the Indoor Grand Prix

 The deal with UKA also includes an agreement to "develop an athletics strategy for the city," which

could feature Diamond League meetings and other major athletics events coming to Birmingham from 2023

eye-catching" West Stand, with the stadium set to host 30,000 spectators.Birmingham hosed the World Indoor Athletics

Council, heralded the deal, claiming it "underlines our [Birmingham's] undoubted status as the home of athletics