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Brazier, Hoppel and Purrier set US records as New York hosts World Indoor Tour Gold meeting

  • Athletics

World 800 metres champion Donavan Brazier shaved one hundredth of a second off his own United States indoor record in New York as he equalled the fourth-fastest time ever, held by Emmanuel Korir of Kenya since 2018.

Brazier clocked 1min 44.21sec to steal the show at the fourth of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold

#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/xHjAs1yNgc— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) February 13, 2021A massively


WADA sanctions force Ivanov to resign as Russian Athletics Federation President

  • Athletics

Peter Ivanov has been forced to resign as President of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) after

as punishment for the state-sponsored doping scandal.World Athletics offered RusAF hope in December,

World Athletics thanked Ivanov, who held talks with the organisation and its Russian taskforce shortly

World Athletics strives to strictly adhere to the letter and spirit of the CAS decision, as a result

RusAF was first suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations - since rebranded

as World Athletics - in November 2015 following allegations of state-sponsored doping.The suspension




Ghana Athletics Association launch coaches and officials training programme for 2023 African Games

  • Ghana 2023

A training programme for coaches and technical officials has been launched by the Ghana Athletics Association

launched in December, is expected to run until November after the GAA received certification from World Athletics

and the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA).Bawah Fuseni, general secretary of the GAA, revealed

they had partnered with World Athletics and CAA to launch the initiative aimed at helping improve coaches

With the concurrence from World Athletics and CAA and in consultation with the Organising Committee through

What is encouraging for athletics in Ghana is that despite the lengthy list on World Athletics and CAA



British athletes petition UKA for zero-tolerance approach to coaching misconduct

  • Athletics

A petition has called on UK Athletics (UKA) to have a "zero-tolerance" approach to coaches, requesting

on this, please have a read and support if you feel appropriate https://t.co/5fvCu47H1A— UoB Sport Athletics

@UBSportAthletic) February 12, 2021That case banned the coach for a year and banned them from their athletics

statement explaining their stance on lifetime bans and insisted their commitment to stopping abuse in athletics

Back in July, Gordon launched a website called Signpost to Safety, giving victims of abuse in athletics


Norman lines up record tilt at World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in New York

  • Athletics

Michael Norman, denied the official world indoor 400 metres record on a technicality in 2018 after recording 44.52sec, has the chance to earn a valid one in New York tomorrow.

The fourth World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the season will feature this prodigiously gifted

Miller-Uibo, the Olympic 400 metres champion from The Bahamas, will run that distance at tomorrow's World Athletics


European Aquatics Championships set to be held in May despite coronavirus

  • Aquatics

Organisers of the European Aquatics Championships are pressing ahead with plans to stage the event in Budapest in May, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

unless of significant changes in the pandemic in Europe in the coming months, the Budapest European Athletics


Philip Barker: When the IOC tried to ban the Flame from regional Games

  • Inside the Blogs

Seventy years ago, the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, the first of three major regional multi sport events launched in 1951, were about to begin.

US athletics official Evelyne Hall spoke of rooms "furnished in exquisite taste, beautiful oil paintings



New Zealand Celebration Project acknowledges 13 Paralympians in Dunedin

  • Paralympics

Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has marked its 11th community event as part of The Celebration Project, where the nation's 209 Paralympians since Tel Aviv 1968 are officially recognised and celebrated.

Lean competed in three Games in archery, athletics, powerlifting and table tennis, winning a gold medal

Paralympians in New Zealand history after winning eight medals across three Games competing in athletics.Other athletics

medallist Holly Robinson.Grimaldi, the women's long jump T47 Paralympic champion and fellow Rio 2016 athletics



Mike Rowbottom: Still licensed to fly - the soaring rivalry of Lavillenie and Duplantis

  • Inside the Blogs

In December 2014 I found myself on the seventh floor terrace of the Fairmont Hotel in Monaco with James Bond. That is, a man in a dinner jacket and semi-secure bow tie pretending to be James Bond. That is, Renaud Lavillenie.

Not ideal.Fast forward to 2021, and more specifically January 29, the date of the first World Athletics

6.03m clearance in Rouen.But that rattle of exchanges has already confirmed something thrilling for athletics


European Championships in 2022 to be highlight of Munich 1972 Golden Jubilee celebrations, promises Lord Mayor

  • Munich 2022

Next year’s European Championships in Munich will be the highlight of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1972 Olympic Games, the city’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter has declared.

religion, who make up the 45-strong Munich 2022 Honorary Board.There is due to be 158 medal events in athletics

European Championships following the event's debut in 2018 when six sports were held in Glasgow and the athletics