Samoa will only send overseas athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Government has announced.

Australia (boxing team), four are based in New Zealand (sailing and canoeing team), one in the US (Athletics

Shot putter Ben Tuimaseve is the latest addition to New Zealand’s athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

F37 category, took up the shot put in 2016 and made his international debut in 2019 at the Oceania Athletics

2020 Paralympics now numbers 21 ©Getty ImagesHe went on to represent New Zealand at the World Para Athletics

Ben will now join the six Para-athletics athletes announced earlier in May, bringing the Para-athletics

Peter Pfitzinger, chief executive of Athletics New Zealand, commented: "After being unable to train early

his dream of making the New Zealand Paralympic team for Tokyo 2020, and on behalf of the New Zealand athletics

Rwandan marathon runner Félicien Muhitira has been thrown off the country's team for the delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo after breaching COVID-19 rules at a training camp.

A Diamond League season debut for Norway's Karsten Warholm is set to be one of the standout features of the Bislett Games in Oslo.

Eighteen-year-old Namibian Christine Mboma produced a startling performance at tonight’s Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz as she won the women’s 400 metres by half the length of the finishing straight in 48.54sec - a world under-20 record and the fastest run so far this year.

European champion Justyna Święty-Ersetic was a distant second in 51.91sec.Elsewhere in the latest World Athletics

Three busts of Baron Pierre de Coubertin - considered the father of the modern Olympics - have been installed in Malta as part of the country’s celebrations of Olympic Day.

player Matthew Abela, who is set to compete at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, swimmer Sasha Gatt, athletics

been banned for two years and will miss both the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics and next year's World Athletics

missing three anti-doping tests in a 12-month period - plus a filing error in that window - when an Athletics

verdict.Naser ran the third-quickest 400m time in history, 48.14sec, to win the gold medal at the World Athletics

Olympic cycling champion Chris Boardman has been appointed as the new chair of Sport England, it has been announced.

Our athletics squad for #Tokyo2020 have their eyes on the prize. ??

World Athletics has announced the 2022 World Race Walking Team Championships will be moved from Minsk

The Council decision comes as a result of a report prepared by the World Athletics Risk Committee, which

Belarus would impact significantly on the staging of the championships in Minsk next year," a World Athletics

World Athletics remains confident in the local organising committee and the Belarus Athletics Federation

World Athletics is seeking a replacement host for the race walking event ©Getty ImagesWorld Athletics

negotiating with alternative host cities for the event.An announcement is expected by the next World Athletics

Andrew Butchart’s place in Britain’s athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games could be in doubt

, after UK Athletics began investigating comments suggesting he had faked a COVID-19 certificate to return

with the 29-year-old selected to compete in the men’s 5,000 metres event.The Times reported that UK Athletics

are working so hard to make the Games safe for everyone.”Butchart’s initial comments have led to UK Athletics

receive exemptions from various guidelines to enable athletes to continue to train and compete,” a UK Athletics

“As a result, this selection will stand subject to further investigation by UK Athletics.”The investigation

Six athletes have been selected to represent the Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

Afghanistan, who is in Fort Lauderdale in the United States. were chosen.They have been picked along with athletics

The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has announced a list of 10 track and field athletes who are

"exceptional eligibility criteria" and confirmed that five applications had been rejected.But World Athletics

would be granted eligibility to participate as ANA at any championship, including the Olympics, World Athletics

The truth is that not all of our athletes, who meet all requirements of the World Athletics Council and

been suspended since November 2015 in relation doping cover-ups.The RusAF faced expulsion from World Athletics

Danil Lysenko and failing to pay outstanding fines.However it was not expelled, and in March the World Athletics

The latest monumental meeting of home hammer-throwing stars will be the centre of attention at tomorrow’s Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in Bydgoszcz.

The latest World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season, which will take place exactly

a month before athletics gets underway at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, will present a men's event involving

hammer throwing champion Anita Wlodarczyk will be seeking her best pre-Tokyo form at tomorrow's World Athletics

History, so they say, is written by the victors.

of International Sports Federations (GAISF).Now another prominent international sports body, World Athletics

scrutiny by Jörg Krieger, a Denmark-based academic.The resultant book - Power and Politics in World Athletics

IAAF.Since its foundation not long before the First World War, the governing body of the ancient sport of athletics

the men’s 800 metres.Adriaan Paulen spent five years at the helm of the International Association of Athletics

Indeed, since Paulen is the only one of the six IAAF/World Athletics Presidents to date not to have served

The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has held a virtual event over two days called Connexion 2021, with an aim of providing women with information on Para sport and the tools and resources to get involved in or stay active in sport.

Innovation Initiative component of Sport Canada's Sport Support programme and saw presentations from Athletics