World Athletics Heritage Plaques have been officially presented to the Kenyan town of Iten and the Fukuoka International Open Marathon Championship in Japan.

held in Iten and Fukuoka as both Plaques, originally awarded by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

October, were presented to local dignitaries.Since the Plaque programme was launched in December 2018 by Coe

Tension has surfaced between Thomas Bach and Sebastian Coe over athlete protests at the Olympic Games

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

Australia's silver medallist Norman, who died in 2006.When announcing the recipients of the award, Coe

to add at this moment in time," Bach said.IOC President Thomas Bach implicitly criticised Sebastian Coe

While Coe has signalled his backing for athletes who choose to protest at the Games, including gestures

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe underlined his support for athletes taking a knee at next year's

created the President's Award in 2016 to recognise and honour exceptional service to athletics," said Coe

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has previously support athletes' right to peacefully protest

October, warning that the Olympics should not become "a marketplace of demonstrations".Speaking today, Coe

After Coe had joined the live link, Smith thanked him for the award and for "giving the athletes, and

The 2021 Wanda Diamond League (WDL) series will include all the disciplines World Athletics planned to remove from its top tier programme this year before the coronavirus pandemic prompted a radically re-shaped programme.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, who is also chairman of the Diamond League Association, commented

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Bańka claims the organisation is making "significant progress" on governance reform after expanding the Executive Committee (ExCo) with two new additions.

vote.Originally from Italy, Battaina-Dragoni is the deputy secretary general of the Council of Europe (COE

integrity initiatives that sit alongside its long-standing Anti-Doping Convention.She also represents COE

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the end of sex testing from World Athletics, outlining how it violates the human rights of women in the Global South.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe committed to the establishment of a human rights working group

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has revealed how close to the biggest event the governing body

only coronavirus, but severe weather problems and a fire that nearly knocked out the timing system, Coe

It was one of the tougher Championships that we’ve had to deliver," Coe said."

the end and at that extraordinary event we had a world record, area records and 22 national records," Coe

New dates have been confirmed in 2022 for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst in Australia, which were due to take place next year but have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

March 11 and 13 but will now take place between March 18 and 20.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Minsk could be set to lose another major event following the controversial re-election in August of Alexander Lukashenko as Belarus President, which has sparked widespread protests across the country.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe revealed that he had instructed the governing body’s newly established

international monitors described the election as neither free nor fair.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk in 2016 ©President of BelarusIt was only two years ago that Coe

be paid to Germany’s Frank Hensel during the two-day World Athletics Council, chaired by Sebastian Coe

will not be around to gently guide athletics at so many levels," World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

UK Athletics (UKA) has announced the departure of its major events director, Cherry Alexander, after 29 years working with the governing body.

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

Tokyo's new Olympic Stadium is set to host the opening event of next year’s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting series on May 9.

considering press and VIP seating areas.It was visited in October by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

I saw a Stadium that will be a fitting venue for a future World Championships in track and field," Coe

the men's 100 metres won by Japan's Kiryu Yoshihide in 10.14sec.World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

fans, and giving us great confidence that it will go from strength to strength in the coming years," Coe

World Athletics has signed a 10-year agreement with NBC Sports for United States media rights to all World Athletics Series events.

partner by our side to showcase our sport in the United States," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

Organisers of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon have unveiled the official logo, social media channels and website for the event.

our flagship event to the United States for the first time," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has urged the United Kingdom Government to allow children to

 In a column published in the Daily Mail, Coe claimed the lockdown was disproportionately affecting

bolstering their mood, fostering social cohesion in communities and of course staying fit and healthy," Coe

Sebastian Coe emphasised the importance of sport to young people, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic

number of events during the global health crisis, held under strict safety measures.The 64-year-old Coe

Coe ended his column by urging the Government to "re-think" the restrictive measures on sport.