UK Athletics (UKA) has announced the departure of its major events director, Cherry Alexander, after

operations in recent years in her position, also acting as the managing director for the London 2017 World Athletics

and World Para Athletics Championships.A vice-president for European Athletics, Alexander stated that

So my journey with British Athletics has come to an end," said Alexander on Twitter."

World Athletics President Seb Coe called Alexander the "hidden hand" behind the work at British Athletics

The passion for athletics she has demonstrated can be seen throughout the sport and in her achievements

in Kazan, was where Wayde van Niekerk won the first significant international medal of his stellar athletics

African made his international debut in 2010, when he finished fourth in the 200m at the World Junior Athletics

Merritt, into second place.The following year at the Rio 2016 Games he produced one of the great Olympic athletics

Cerebral Palsy Sport (CP Sport) has announced its finalists for the 2020 CP Sport Awards, which are set to take place virtually on December 12.

club are also the finalists for the Sports Club of the Year.Shortlists for cerebral palsy swimming and athletics

Members of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) are set to elect their second permanent President

Oleg Kurbatov, the head of the regional athletics body in Moscow who was excluded from the RusAF election

Gusev - who was a candidate for the post in February, before withdrawing late on - and Russian Student Athletics

2015 when allegations of state-sponsored doping emerged, avoided expulsion in August by paying World Athletics

subsequent cover-up.Seven RusAF officials - including then-President Dmitry Shlyakhtin - were charged by the Athletics

an anti-doping investigation by allegedly forging documents to explain Lysenko's missed tests.World Athletics

Garth Gayle has been elected as the new President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association

Marie Travers was elected as the new honorary secretary of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association

international relations and increased opportunities for coaches, officials and other members of the athletics

of knowledge to bring to track and field as he has served on the IAAF (International Association of Athletics

The Organising Committee of the Kobe 2022 World Para Athletics Championships has unveiled its official

that coexist and harmonise with each other," said an IPC statement.The last edition of the World Para Athletics

World Para Athletics.Around 1,300 athletes from over 100 countries are set to compete at the World Para Athletics

The topping out construction of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games Village has been completed, meaning the highest point of the building work has finished.

seater Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium.The stadium will be used for the Opening and Closing Ceremony and athletics

sprinter Blake Leeper has appealed a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that upheld World Athletics

 World Athletics deemed that the American runner received an unfair advantage over able-bodied athletes

as Leeper's prosthetics mean he runs at an "unnaturally" tall height.Under the World Athletics decision

, Leeper is barred from competing against able-bodied athletes at the Olympics or any World Athletics

It is deplorable that World Athletics is barring Mr.

These decisions of World Athletics are wrong and unjust," said Leeper."

Don Quarrie has promised to revolutionise the sport if he is elected the new President of the Jamaica Athletics

international relations and increased opportunities for coaches, officials and other members of the athletics

include "improving communication and governance structure of the JAAA, bringing it in line with World Athletics

the likes of eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt, who has contributed to Jamaica being an athletics

served as secretary general of the JAAA for 20 years ©YouTubeJamaica finished third overall in the athletics

Rio 2016 when they won a total of 11 medals, six of them gold.It followed a second placed finish in athletics

Tests events for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are scheduled to resume in March - a year after they were brought to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cup Tokyo followed by a rhythmic gymnastics competition.A volleyball event at Ariake Arena as well as athletics

events would be held at Yoyogi National Stadium for wheelchair rugby, the Olympic Stadium for Para-athletics

Tokyo's new Olympic Stadium is set to host the opening event of next year’s World Athletics Continental

The event will act as an Olympic test event less than 12 weeks before it is due to stage the athletics

also scheduled to stage the Tokyo 2020 Opening and Closing Ceremonies.The new design holds 68,089 in athletics

President Sebastian Coe, who encouraged Tokyo to bid to host for another World Athletics having previously

The Stadium last August hosted the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, which was also part of the World Athletics

Japan's Kiryu Yoshihide won the 100m at last year's World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in

Men's world 100 metres champion Christian Coleman has appealed his two-year ban for breaching anti-doping whereabouts rules to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). 

test on April 26.Coleman accepted the first missed test but challenged the other two rulings, but the Athletics

Bahraini athlete Salwa Eid Naser has been submitted to CAS ©Getty ImagesCAS has also confirmed that World Athletics

had submitted an appeal by the AIU against a decision by the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal in

The 2021 World Athletics Challenge-Combined Events series has been handed a head start with a meeting

December 1, the window is set to reopen before closing again on June 29.It is expected that the 2021 World Athletics

The Organising Committee of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics has announced a new concept for its venues for the Games, in a bid to make budget savings.

to leave seven stadiums for the tournaments.Seine-Saint-Denis will still hold five Olympic sports - athletics

Japan's Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto has claimed it is not up to the country's Government to investigate a series of payments made to the Tokyo Bid Committee during the campaign for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

the Committee.He admitted to Reuters that he had given disgraced former International Association of Athletics