Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada, and the following year she was eighth in the World Junior Athletics

weight of public expectation by securing the gold medal, part of an extraordinary sequence of three home athletics

Paralympic Games, with organisers hopeful of inviting overseas competitors and domestic spectators to an athletics

to take place in April, with the May schedule including volleyball, artistic swimming, gymnastics, athletics

Olympics, which are due to open on July 23.The stadium can have a capacity of 68,089 when used for athletics

For athletics and the marathon we are thinking about having spectators and overseas athletes will be

During the athletics test events we will have to collect information so we can make decisions."

Local spectators are expected to be present for the athletics test event in May ©Getty ImagesNakamura

World Athletics and World Masters Athletics have reached an agreement to feature masters races at the

World Athletics Cross Country Championships for the first time in Bathurst in Australia.

community, including recreational running, mountain and trail running and parkrun, because that makes our athletics

community stronger," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe."

I'm delighted to announce this new initiative in cooperation with World Masters Athletics."

to test themselves on the scenic Mount Panorama course at Bathurst in Australia," said World Masters Athletics

We are pleased to be working with World Athletics to make this is a uniquely memorable event for all

Chinese state company China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has won a bid to build the seven major projects, including the main stadium, being funded by the Government in Beijing for the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

2023Other venues include an Olympic-standard aquatics centre, a six-court tennis centre, a full-sized athletics

British heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson has confirmed her recovery from injury is going well ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and she wants to compete at Paris 2024 too.

, Johnson-Thompson spoke about her Achilles injury which forced her out of the 2021 European Indoor Athletics

October 3, 2019The British heptathlete broke the national record with a score of 6,981 at the 2019 World Athletics

The sun shone on Thursday (March 25) as Iwashimizu Azusa carried the Olympic Flame with her 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup winning team-mates at J-Village Soccer Training Centre, for the "Grand Start" of the 121 day journey to Tokyo.

said.The first official bearer was 1996 hockey gold medallist Nova Peris, who was destined to compete in athletics

Ismet Krasniqi has been elected Kosovo Olympic Committee President with the official succeeding the long-serving Besim Hasani.

as the winner of the election after receiving 53 votes.He had been nominated for the position by the Athletics

The International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) has confirmed the inaugural Guttmann Games will combine with this year’s IWAS World Games in a bid to provide a platform for non-Paralympic sports to shine.

festival of sport".Beach ParaVolley and wheelchair cricket are set to feature on the programme along with athletics

IWAS also confirmed applications have been made to host classification for the IWAS World Games in athletics

At the recent International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, President Thomas Bach revealed that he regularly "talks" to Olympic founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin and often consults his writings.

separated countries".For most, the destination of choice was the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, venue for athletics

Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) head Brett Clothier believes the body has been a successful example of

for the management of all other integrity-related programmes.The unit was recently described by World Athletics

said the AIU’s creation followed the governance scandal involving former International Association of Athletics

Federations President Lamine Diack.He said that funding received from World Athletics and other contributors

Clothier added that the independence from World Athletics has allowed the AIU to not become involved

in the political ramifications of cases.He highlighted the high-profile sanctioning of key Russian Athletics

A media release drops into my inbox from UK Anti-Doping with the information that a rugby player, one Ralph Rainbow (no, me neither) has been banned for four years after UK Border Forces seized a package which contained £200 worth of items used in the process of injecting Human Growth Hormone (HGH), a case which echoes British Cycling’s infamous jiffy bag affair.

performance enhancing drug taking, much of it undetected when masking agents are so readily available, as in athletics

Charles Garvice was a hugely popular author in the 1890s and early 20th century, selling millions of his romantic novels in the United States and, under the pseudonym Caroline Hart, in Britain and its empire.

Australia's greatest athletes.Australia won six golds when the Sydney Cricket Ground hosted the 1938 athletics

finally got her chance in 1937 when three women's clubs were formed and Western Australia was part of the athletics

Norman would have competed at the Olympic Games planned for Helsinki in 1940.Had Perth existed on the athletics

World Athletics has announced the launch of a "Global Conversation for the Future of Athletics", which

says the purpose of the consultation is to listen to the athletics community and identify where the

, its Member Federations and Area Associations, and other people involved in athletics can work together

Athletics, as the most accessible and participated sport on the planet, has a key role in helping to

World Athletics launches Global Conversation about the future of the sport.

#AthleticsWorldPlan— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) March 22, 2021World Athletics says the campaign

The less said about the London 2012 mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville - or was it Manlock and Wendeville? - the better. So let’s leave it at that. Spawn of Cyclops…

done better to have got Blue Peter on the case, as happened when the Olympic Stadium hosted the World Athletics

currently undergoing a £72 million ($99 million/€83 million) renovation so it will be ready to host the athletics

photographers, Berlino could not bear to be out of the spotlight.Three years before those London World Athletics

Championships I covered the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, and looking back on them now

man who had "form" with regard to event mascots.After winning the steeplechase at the 2012 European Athletics

A bull adorned with a patchwork of multi-coloured hexagons called Perry has been revealed as the official mascot of next year’s Commonwealth Games.

currently undergoing a £72 million ($99 million/€83 million) renovation so it will be ready to host the athletics

Perry is right up there with the fantastic mascots I’ve seen during my athletics career, and I can’t