Hugues Fabrice Zango has set a new indoor triple jump world record and become just the seventh man in history to clear the 18-metre barrier.

European Indoor Championships later that year.Zango is Burkinabe, and his nation's first-ever holder of an athletics

world record.The 27-year-old - a bronze medallist at the 2019 World Athletics Championships outdoors

Turkish marathon runners and steeplechasers who achieve the qualifying time for this year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are set to train in Ethiopia in the lead-up to the event.

qualifying time at a competition in Trabzon next month.Elvan Abeylegesse, a team leader of the Turkish athletics

Turkey has won three medals in athletics at the Olympic Games.The nation had claimed gold and silver

women's 100 metres hurdles champion, Brianna Rollins-McNeal, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics

, she could face a ban that will make her ineligible for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Athletics

This year's Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Thailand have been postponed until March 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

feature on the programme for the AIMAG, confirmed by the OCA last year.The medal sports are: indoor athletics

Athletics South Africa President Aleck Skhosana is confident world champion long jumper Luvo Manyonga

Rio 2016 Olympics silver medallist Manyonga is facing a two-year ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit

will banned from competing until approximately December 2022, meaning he would miss the 2022 World Athletics

compliant considering his experience.Luvo Manyonga could miss the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Athletics

Three-time Olympic bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton believes Birmingham 2022’s decision to offer more medals to women than men "needed to happen" to improve diversity across all sports.

I am fortunate to come from the world of athletics where women lead and generally have more participants

Sotherton came through the ranks at Birmingham-based Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club before going

England finished third in the athletics medal table at Gold Coast 2018 behind Australia and Jamaica after

Kenya's half marathon world record holder, Kibiwott Kandie, has announced his intention to compete in the 10,000 metres at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, eyeing a medal.

national trials for the Olympics.They will all have to undergo mandatory testing too, carried out by the Athletics

The Azerbaijan Paralympic Committee (ANPC) is continuing to advance the development of sport for disabled children, after releasing a new strategy to cover the next decade.

winning in judo ©Getty ImagesAzerbaijan made its debut at the Paralympics at Atlanta 1996, competing in athletics

British Taekwondo star Mohammed Nour is continuing his progression in the sport, having now joined GB Taekwondo's World Class Performance Programme.

Previously a promising 1,500 metres runner in school, he juggled athletics with taekwondo at junior level.Nour

Following today’s news that the hugely popular and influential British athletics coach Lloyd Cowan had

had coached, or even tangentially helped, has been extraordinary.Ian Hodge, the hugely knowledgeable athletics

Britain’s former European 200m champion and world 4x100m gold medallist Adam Gemili posted: "The athletics

World Athletics has invited expressions of interest for the 2023 World Athletics Road Running Championships

, the 2023 World Athletics Relays and the 2025 World Athletics Championships.

The governing body has requested potential hosts lodge their interest by March 1.World Athletics has

published bid guides for interested cities.The World Athletics Championships is the governing body’s

Congress alongside the competition.World Athletics say an initial event budget is around $70 million

World Athletics Road Running Championships, a week-long festival of road running.The event will include

races will also be held to allow recreational runners to be part of the event.The World Athletics Road

Guam National Olympic Committee (GNOC) President Ricardo Blas insists that difficulties presented by the coronavirus pandemic will not stop the country from participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

, resulting in the deaths of 125 people.Blas hopes that athletes in judo, wrestling, weightlifting, athletics

Tributes have poured in from across British athletics following the death of coach Lloyd Cowan, who guided

States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) has announced its 2020 Hall of Fame class, which includes athletics

athletics.Seoul 1988 double gold medallist Egensteiner has been recognised for her achievements in athletics

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is among a long list of personalities from sport and beyond who have paid tribute to Richard Pound, who has stepped down from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation Board.

have today".Richard Pound led a 2015 WADA Independent Commission investigation into Russian doping in athletics