Japanese visually impaired runner Misato Michishita has broken the women's world record in her classification, after competing at the Hofu Yomiuri Marathon in her home Yamaguchi prefecture. 

Three-time Paralympic champion Katrina Webb has been appointed to the Australian Team Executive for the upcoming Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

before adding a third gold at Athens 2004 in the T38 400m.In Melbourne her silver medal came as Para-athletics

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has announced 10 projects led by retired Olympians which will benefit from the OLY Canada Legacy Grant programme.

and youth through sport and play," Scott said.Finally, two-sport Olympian Seyi Smith, who competed in athletics

bobsleigh at London 2012 and Pyeongchang 2018, attempts to improve sport's sustainability during the athletics

Athletics has had a lousy 2020.

championships after the postponement of Tokyo 2020, coupled with a severe lack of cash in the World Athletics

Thankfully, redemption may be but eight months away, if only athletics’ leaders can seize their quadrennial

memory of his superbly orchestrated feat on the streets of Vienna eclipses the recollection of any athletics

By the time athletics did manage to get a truncated Diamond League circuit operational again, the moment

World Athletics is not in the dire financial straits that some had feared before it at last published

Without the four-yearly dividend from the IOC after each Olympics, World Athletics would be scuppered

In the absence of a transformative broadcast deal, World Athletics certainly didn’t have the resources

The three temporary swimming pools that are set to be used for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are being offered to Seine-Saint-Denis citizens.

allowing venues to be 100 per cent accessible by public transport.Seine-Saint-Denis is set to stage athletics

France's decathlon world record holder Kevin Mayer has secured the qualification standard for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after two days of competition at the Meeting de la Réunion.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) has helped set up an international advocacy network to enhance the country's "influence in the global sporting sector".

members from various sectors in the nation.Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) director general and Athletics

Evans Chebet has expressed hope of being selected in the Kenyan team for next year's Olympics in Tokyo after winning the Valencia Marathon.

the best" ©Getty ImagesHe also was in Azerbaijani colours at last year's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics

 He qualified for Tokyo 2020 following his performance at the World Athletics Championships but

France's Kevin Mayer leads the men's decathlon standings on day one of two at the Meeting de la Réunion, as he chases the Olympic standard in the event.

UK Sport has announced that the sports already funded for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will not face budget cuts in the run-up to the Games in 2021 as the organisation also released its provisional budgets for Paris 2024.

cuts to their budget for Paris 2024.These include some of Britain's most successful sports such as athletics

Six new members have been elected to the British Paralympic Association (BPA) Athletes' Commission, and are set to take up their posts in January.

existing members.Triathlon's Claire Cashmore, equestrian's Sophie Christiansen, judo's Ben Quilter and athletics

Weightlifting has lost one of its most important Olympic qualifying events because of yet another coronavirus-related postponement.

Olympic Committee (IOC) would appear to be a formality as qualifying in some other sports - most notably athletics

compete during the final qualifying period, which will be extended to May or even June.Qualifying for athletics

Olympic silver medallist and world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer will be aiming to hit the Tokyo 2020 qualification mark of 8,350 points at the Meeting de la Réunion.

Olympic qualifying window, the competition on the remote French island of Réunion is part of the World Athletics

Ukraine's Hanna Kasyanova is set to be among the leading heptathletes competing in the World Athletics

Last week, the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) announcement that breaking would be part of the 2024 Games in Paris was the latest chapter in the evolution of the sports programme over 125 years.

Michel Breal, a member of the Institut de France, offered a gold cup as a prize.There was also a list of athletics

events to be held in the stadium.In those days there was no international governing body for athletics

the Amateur Athletic Association in England.At the Congress, it had been suggested that a "general athletics

Games, but the IOC decided not to include it in France.The decision came much to the chagrin of World Athletics

Three-time Olympic bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton has backed Birmingham to launch a bid for a future World Athletics

undergoing a £72.4million ($97.9 million/€80.3 million) revamp ahead of Birmingham 2022 is the "home of athletics

in 2011 and has hosted the British Grand Prix ever since.Birmingham has previously staged the World Athletics

I already think Birmingham is the home of athletics because of the great tradition it has there," said

England Athletics and UK Athletics are both based there."

So it is already the home of athletics to me and many other people because what’s where the national