Parkrun has written to the United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning a further delay to its return is now "likely" and that it is therefore "fearful for our future".

stately homes, forests, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, beaches, promenades, prisons and nature reserves.World Athletics

backed the parkrun appeal to be allowed to resume following the COVID-19 pandemic ©Getty ImagesWorld Athletics

Norway’s 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen earned a landmark 5,000 metres victory at the Diamond League meeting in Florence over a field including Uganda’s world record-holder Joshua Cheptegei as he set a European record of 12min 48.45sec, the fastest run this year.

400m hurdles after an indoor season in which she won 400m individual and relay gold at the European Athletics

It was really important to do a good race here today," Asher-Smith later told the World Athletics media

Sifan Hassan, set to run at tomorrow’s Diamond League meeting in Florence, insisted she was "happy" that the world 10,000 metres record she set in Hengelo on Sunday (June 6) had been bettered two days later on the same track by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey.

has not raced the 1500m since her victory at the World Championships in Doha in 2019, and the World Athletics

Letesenbet Gidey improved the newly established women’s 10,000 metres world record by five seconds tonight as she won the Ethiopian Olympic trials in 29min 01.03sec on the same Hengelo track where home runner Sifan Hassan had lowered the world mark to 29:06.82 two days earlier.

breaks Sifan Hassan's two-day-old 10,000m world record with 29:01.03. pic.twitter.com/DJIxauju2L— World Athletics

national record of 89.55 metres.Krukowski’s flourish came on a damp evening at this two-part World Athletics

Max Siegel, chief executive of USA Track and Field (USATF), has stressed that the organisation "wholeheartedly supports" athletes demonstrating for social change.

Renee and I have been actively engaged globally with World Athletics, whether it has been with the Women

Siegel replied: "We are incredibly supportive of our athletes, and our mission for the Olympics is athletics

A new athlete-led organisation which aims to "fight for swimmers’ rights and provide them with an independent global voice" has been launched by 10 high-profile competitors.

athlete-led group to be created within a top-tier Olympic sport following the establishment of the Athletics

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue said the organisation was "extremely proud" after three athletes from the sport were named in the Refugee Olympic Team for Tokyo 2020.

total of 29 athletes have been selected in all, with taekwondo the third most represented sport after athletics

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has claimed Olympic sports need to do more to convince a sceptical

A total of 29 athletes from 12 sports will form the Olympic Refugee Team at Tokyo 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today.

promising refugee athletes from 13 countries that were given IOC scholarships, are set to compete across athletics

Sebastian Coe, Uğur Erdener and Nenad Lalovic have been re-elected to the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) Council during the organisation's virtual General Assembly.

The respective Presidents of World Athletics, World Archery and United World Wrestling stood unopposed

Munich 2022 has unveiled the road cycling courses for next year's European Championships.

 Glasgow and Berlin shared the first European Championships in 2018.As well as cycling, athletics

The announcement of an expanded Refugee Olympic Team for Tokyo 2020 will be the highlight of the opening day of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board meeting tomorrow.

Turkey, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom have all hosted athletes.They compete in 12 sports - athletics

Throwing is taking centre circle at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, which started tonight - with Sweden’s world discus champion Daniel Stahl in winning mode - and continues tomorrow evening.

earn a third Olympic title in Tokyo she needs to re-establish her best form in what doubles as a World Athletics

summer – is in top form, having set a world-leading mark for the year of 82.98 metres at the European Athletics

in Chorzow last weekend.In Turku he faces the three men he shared the podium with at the 2019 World Athletics

India’s Commonwealth Games 440 yards gold medallist Milkha Singh, known affectionally as "The Flying Sikh", is recovering in hospital after contracting COVID-19.

Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands lowered the women’s 10,000 metres world record to 29min 06.82sec today on the home track of Hengelo, taking more than 10 seconds off the mark of 29:17.45 set by Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana in winning the Rio 2016 gold.

and 1500m titles at the Doha 2019 World Championships, lived up to all the expectations in this World Athletics

season, Femke Bol of The Netherlands, who won individual and relay gold over 400 metres at the European Athletics