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World high jump champion Barshim among field for Tokyo 2020 athletics test event

  • Athletics

is among the international stars competing in the Ready Steady Tokyo meeting, acting as the official athletics

Barshim is making his first appearance outside his home country for two years at the World Athletics

Indonesia, the world under-20 champion.The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo is set to host the official Tokyo 2020 athletics

test event tomorrow, which is doubling as a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting ©Getty ImagesIn

the men’s 400 metres, three of the Japanese team from the recent World Athletics Relays event in Silesia

closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, and over the course of two sessions.It is one of two World Athletics


Hosts Ecuador earn three golds in Pan American Walking Cup

  • Athletics

Hosts Ecuador won three of the six titles contested in the Pan American Walking Cup, which was held in Guayaquil in tribute to the recently deceased coach Luis Chocho.

held on a two-kilometre circuit on Paseo El Parque avenue in Guayaquil, which was certified by World Athletics

We are satisfied to have been able to fulfil this first commitment on the Association of Panamerican Athletics


NFL star Metcalf faces sprint trial by ordeal at World Athletics Continental Tour meeting in Walnut

  • Athletics

National Football League (NFL) wide receiver DK Metcalf looks likely to earn the headlines one way or another at tomorrow's USA Track and Field (USATF) Golden Games in Walnut in California.

The Seattle Seahawk is understood to be competing in this World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event

trials.World 200 metres champion Noah Lyles will make his season's debut at that distance in tomorrow's World Athletics


Michael Houston: Absence of crowds ahead of Tokyo 2020 has been a blessing and curse

  • Inside the Blogs

It felt as if 2021 would be the year that sport would resume and a bumper crowd could celebrate the long-awaited Tokyo 2020 Olympics, yet we find ourselves less than three months away still unsure exactly what is going on.

more advantageous - spectators acting as a barrier for golf balls or the absence of drunk hecklers.In athletics


CAS rejects Dazza and Marimuthu appeals against four-year doping bans

  • Athletics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected appeals from El Mahjoub Dazza and Gomathi Marimuthu against their respective four-year doping suspensions.

Morocco's Dazza and Indian athlete Marimuthu were both banned in 2020 by the Athletics Integrity Unit

/€3.560) - CHF1,000 (£790/$1,110/€912) to the CAS and CHF3,000 (£2,380/$3,330/€2,740) towards World Athletics

separate samples.This led to a four-year ban and the disqualification of results including at the Asian Athletics



Morejón the local focus as Guayaquil set for Pan American Race Walking Cup

  • Athletics

Twenty-year-old home athlete Glenda Morejón will be a focus of attention when she races in the women’s 20 kilometres event at the Pan American Race Walking Cup that starts tomorrow at Guayaquil in Ecuador.

already has the Olympic qualifying mark in the 20km.The women's 35km race, the distance espoused by World Athletics


Anniversary Games moved away from London Stadium

  • Athletics

UK Athletics has reached an agreement with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) to move the

There is no confirmed replacement venue yet, but UK Athletics chief executive Joanna Coates insisted

League event in place of Rabat in Morocco, is one option; another contender could be Manchester.UK Athletics

and the first game of the next campaign, the £3 million would fall squarely on the shoulders of the athletics

also being spread across concerts as would have been the case in a normal, coronavirus-free year.UK Athletics

We are grateful that UK Athletics have agreed to a revised proposal that covers the costs of relocation



Tamara Press, three-time Olympic champion subjected to gender hearsay, dies age 83

  • Athletics

Tamara Press, a three-time Olympic champion for the Soviet Union whose outstanding performances led to speculation over her gender, has died age 83.

Getty ImagesThe South African wants the European Court of Human Rights to hear an appeal against World Athletics

doctoral degree in pedagogical sciences.Press wrote the books the books The Price of Victory and This Athletics


UK Sport outlines major event hosting ambitions as 10-year strategic plan published

  • News

Bids for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, the World Athletics Championships and the 2025 Women’s Rugby World

FIFA World Cup tournaments.UK Sport say live feasibility studies are underway for the 2026 European Athletics

Road Running Championships, with the first edition of the event set to be held in 2023.World Athletics

invited bids in October, with the event set to incorporate the existing World Athletics Half Marathon

Championships, a five-kilometre competition, and mass races for recreational runners.The World Athletics

and Para Athletics Championships are among other mega events listed as being opportunities.London held



Indian shooting team to relocate to Croatia ahead of Tokyo 2020 Olympics

  • Shooting

The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has said the country’s shooting team will establish a base in Croatia next week, where they will remain until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Thailand this week, while restrictions also meant the nation was unable to participate at the World Athletics


New Zealander Leslie to compete in two sports at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

  • Wheelchair Rugby News

Cameron Leslie is set to become the first New Zealander in 33 years to compete in more than one sport at a Paralympic Games after being named in both the swimming and wheelchair rugby squads for Tokyo 2020.

Cordery was the last athlete from New Zealand to compete in two sports at a Paralympics when she balanced athletics


Mike Rowbottom: The day when Gateshead witnessed a world record - in the 100 metres

  • Inside the Blogs

A little under three weeks from now the Gateshead International Stadium will live up to its name as of old when it hosts the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.

slot was available for Britain and that was the annual Anniversary Games in the stadium that hosted athletics

And if UK Athletics is unsuccessful in resisting the announcement by the London Legacy Development Corporation

metres record ©Getty ImagesWhile that is a relatively unlikely prospect, the north-eastern bastion of athletics