Shelby Houlihan, the American record holder in the women's 1500 metres and 5,000m, is set to miss the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after she was given a four-year doping ban.

Houlihan, who finished fourth in the 1,500m at the World Athletics Championships in 2019, had been set

finish in the women's 5,000m final at Rio 2016.The 28-year-old's was notified of the failure by the Athletics

is also set to keep her out of the Paris 2024 Olympics and could end her time at the top of American athletics

Every single session at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will have tickets available for £22 ($30/€25), organisers have announced.

details and event schedule at Alexander Stadium - the focal Birmingham 2022 venue which will stage athletics

redeveloped Alexander Stadium will be at the heart of the Games, as the venue will not only host the athletics

Kazakhstan has started celebrating Olympic Day with a series of activities across the country.

to culminate on June 23 - Olympic Day - in the capital Nur-Sultan.The country-wide relay began with athletics

medallist.She took part in athletic events involving more than 60 young children at the Olga Rypakova Athletics

Selection trials for India’s track and field team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been confirmed.

Antil holds the world record of 66.70 metres while Chaudhary has also won gold at the 2019 World Para Athletics

The scheduling of the athletics programme, and the disruption to it caused by a royal appearance, did

Williams married in 1954 and retired from athletics to start a family.

I’m not proud of this, but such were my ungovernable emotions after watching England try and try and fail to earn the win over Poland required to reach the 1974 World Cup finals that I stomped out into the night and walked blindly until I found myself up by the posh houses in Chalfont Lane.

I was in Lausanne, covering athletics, that most civilised of sports - give or take a bit of state-sponsored

I fear I may have surprised, if not shocked, some of my younger, balanced, athletics-loving compadres

China's former Canadian heptathlete Zheng Ninali won at the World Athletics Challenge Combined Events

competing at 13th in the world list, was third on 6,240.The Czech Republic's Jiri Sykora won the World Athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has hailed the news that parkrun is set to return in more than

Mohamed Abdul Sattar has been elected President of the Maldives Olympic Committee (MOC) after seeing off rival Moosa Nashid in the vote at the organisation's Extraordinary General Assembly.

after completing his latest four-year term.Ahmed Ismail and Mohamed Tholal, representing handball and athletics

India's 1951 Asian Games marathon bronze medal winner and 1952 Olympian Surat Singh Mathur has died aged 90.

He was an Olympian and also a medal winner in the first Asian Games.The Athletics Federation of India

Mills, seeking a Tokyo 2020 Olympics place, is overnight leader of the heptathlon at the latest World Athletics

the opening hurdles in 13.39.Poland’s Pawel Wiesiolek had a highly effective first day at the World Athletics

Tokyo after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected his appeal against a ruling from World Athletics

Leeper, who races using running specific prostheses (RSPs), challenged a decision from a World Athletics

studies conducted on white and Asian people.While the latest CAS panel "strongly encouraged" World Athletics

The panel therefore concludes that World Athletics has demonstrated on a balance of probabilities that

The American Paralympic sprinter's latest appeal against a World Athletics ruling which prevents him

World Athletics had ruled in February 2020 that Leeper would not be able to compete against able-bodied

Britain has pulled out of this year’s World Athletics U20 Championships in Kenya because of the COVID

in Kenya and UK, but most importantly the wellbeing of our athletes, coaches and support team," UK Athletics

recorded more than 174,000 coronavirus cases with 3,378 deaths.Kenya was awarded the event by World Athletics

after it successfully staged the International Association of Athletics Federations - as the world governing

States who withdrew from that event following warnings about the increased threat of terrorism.The World Athletics

metres hurdles and Mark Lewis-Francis in the 100m.Christian Malcolm, the current head coach of British Athletics

places at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have converged on Arona, in Tenerife, for the latest two-day World Athletics

Maria Vicente will hope to secure a Tokyo 2020 Olympics heptathlon place when she competes in the World Athletics

at the opening event of the series on the French island of Réunion last December - at the European Athletics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board that it will be the mixed-gender contest added to the athletics

The IOC Executive Board previously decided that the number of athletics events should stay at 48 for

kilometre race walk being dropped in favour of a mixed-gender event in the quest for gender equality.World Athletics