World Para Athletics has opened the bidding process for the 2023 and 2025 World Championships, with National

“The World Para Athletics Championships bring together the best Para athletes on the planet offering

performances while defying stereotypes about persons with disabilities,” said Haozhe Gao, head of World Para Athletics

World Championships in London during 2017.Kobe is scheduled to host the next edition of the World Para Athletics

Vila Real de Santo Antonio is set to host the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games for the second time in four years after the Portuguese city was awarded the 2021 edition of the event.

October 1 to 4 in 2021.Cerebral palsy football is set to make its debut at the 2021 Games, joining athletics

Olympic Games, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President implicitly criticised his World Athletics

Tommie Smith, Peter Norman and John Carlos were chosen by Coe to receive the World Athletics President's

yesterday's IOC Executive Board meeting to suggest Coe's support for podium protests contravenes World Athletics

rules.The IOC President directly quoted article 1.3.5 on "political and religious marketing" of the World Athletics

criticised Sebastian Coe during his press conference yesterday ©IOCIn response, a spokesperson for World Athletics

 "There is nothing in these rules or the World Athletics integrity Code of Conduct to prevent athletes

World Athletics has revealed it is "disappointed" at the omission of a cross country event at the Paris

A final programme of 329 events will feature at Paris 2024, down from 339 from Tokyo 2020.The World Athletics

given the heritage of cross country in France at the Paris 1924 Olympic Games," a statement from World Athletics

World Athletics have to confirm the mixed gender event by May 31 next year.

the assessment of the key considerations around the cost, safety and security of the athletes.Like athletics

Jon Ridgeon, chief executive of World Athletics, has admitted that too many changes at once were proposed

year – like the 90-minute window, like the reduction of the number of disciplines," Ridgeon, the World Athletics

Athletics is a traditional sport, and changes can be painful."

discus would have been dropped from the Diamond League, being relegated to the newly created World Athletics

effectively have been replaced by 3,000m races.The news of this major revision of its programme by World Athletics

by the group that formed largely in reaction to the planned reductions announced last November, The Athletics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has turned down all requests for additional disciplines for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, with the organisation instead confirming a reduction of events in weightlifting and the removal of the 50 kilometres race walk.

was made to cut the men's 50km event with a view to a mixed gender competition.A proposal from World Athletics

events on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme (48), while offering the opportunity to World Athletics to

World Athletics have to confirm the event by May 31 next year.

the assessment of the key considerations around the cost, safety and security of the athletes.Like athletics

We had really detailed discussions with World Athletics regarding cross country, we know it is a key

win an Olympic gold medal, has been officially nominated as the permanent President of the Ethiopian Athletics

Tokyo 2020 marketing agency Dentsu is to cut 12.5 per cent of overseas roles as the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

involved in corruption cases due to its close links with disgraced former International Association of Athletics

There was some irony on Saturday (December 5) in the fact that the Female World Athlete of the Year award went to a competitor whose event, the triple jump, would have been relegated from the top tier of the sport’s annual programme in 2020 had coronavirus not thrown all sporting plans into disarray.

like the 90-minute window, like the reduction of the number of disciplines,” Jon Ridgeon, the World Athletics

“Athletics is a traditional sport, and changes can be painful.

remain but we are also moving it forward, and we seem to have landed at the right place.”Certainly The Athletics

complement of events clearly known last year.But while the coronavirus pandemic may have given World Athletics

And I think it was late summer onwards we started to speak to all of the other stakeholders.World Athletics

The winner of the United States Olympic Marathon Trials women's race, Aliphine Tuliamuk, looks set to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after she gives birth.

World Athletics has made amendments to its running shoes rules, which allows development shoes to be

as a legitimate development shoe.They will not be allowed to be worn in any competition where World Athletics

' competition and technical rules are not applied.Approved by the World Athletics' Council, the amendment

applies with immediate effect but the shoes will not be allowed to be worn at the World Athletics Series

or the Olympic Games.This includes Diamond League events and World Athletics competitions such as the

World Athletics Championships.A list of approved development shoes will be posted on the World Athletics

Tunisia is set to hold the next edition of the African Beach Games in 2023 after being approved as host at the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) General Assembly.

 Eleven sports were on the programme last year, including athletics, 3x3 basketball, beach handball

Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report titled "’They’re Chasing Us Away from Sport’ - Human Rights Violations in Sex Testing of Elite Women Athletes”".

allowed to compete over distances from 400m to a mile unless she takes medication.This is due to a World Athletics

pic.twitter.com/5PlB2OIffs— Katrina Karkazis (@Karkazis) December 4, 2020"World Athletics has targeted

event by my colleague Michael Houston.In its report, HRW included a set of recommendations for World Athletics

The IOC was asked to ensure governing bodies such as World Athletics uphold these principles of the Olympic

Kenya's Kibiwott Kandie has set a world record for the men's half marathon after smashing the previous best by 29 seconds in Valencia.

the Rio 2016 Olympics in the 1,500m, also winning world gold over the same distance at the 2015 World Athletics

India's top javelin throwers, including the qualified Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh, have started a month-long training camp in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

ImagesChopra and Shivpal have already qualified for the Games after competing in South Africa in January.The Athletics

Commonwealth Games champion and Tokyo will be his first Olympics.His best performance at the World Athletics

at the World Military Games in Wuhan in China late in 2019.Shivpal also finished 24th at the World Athletics