Chile's Lucas Nervi sparked home celebrations on the first day of track and field athletics events at

19.41.Dominican Republic earned the mixed 4x400m relay gold to finish the first day of track and field athletics

sprinters have opted not to compete at the Pan American Games.There are five more scheduled days of athletics

British athlete Bianca Williams says she is "shocked" at the amount of money raised by a crowdfunding page set up to support two police officers sacked for their roles in a stop-and-search incident of her and Portuguese athlete Ricardo Dos Santos.

champion in the women’s 4x100 metres relay and a bronze medallist in the same event at this year’s World Athletics

A jury comprised of members of the International Fair Play Committee and World Athletics have shortlisted

six athletics moments to be considered for this year's International Fair Play Award.

Following nominations from fans, the two bodies decided on the list and now fans can vote via World Athletics

the first nominee after he saluted Kenyan team-mate Sebastian Sawe as he overtook him in the World Athletics

WorldRunningChampsVoting closes at midnight CET on Sunday 5 November.… pic.twitter.com/200jzgo1if— World Athletics

warm-up session which led to Moon running over to offer support.Fans have been encouraged to visit World Athletics

Women's race walk times at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago were annulled after the course was astoundingly found to be around three kilometres shorter than it was supposed to be.

qualify for next year's Olympic Games in Paris through meeting the entry standard times or earn World Athletics

Santiago 2023 (@santiago2023) October 29, 2023Santiago 2023 has blamed the Association of Panamerican Athletics

The National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the Republic of Azerbaijan has held an event featuring sports competitions for schoolchildren to mark Olympic Day.

participation of Olympic Culture and Education Programme schoolchildren.The first part of the competition was athletics-based

Asian Paralympic Committee President Majid Rashed has declared the fourth Asian Para Games in Hangzhou "the biggest and best ever", during a speech at the Closing Ceremony.

guaranteed Chinese gold medallist, with Zhang Tianxin beating Han Guifei 138-135.On the final day of athletics

Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) President Mustapha Berraf has laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new Cape Verde Olympic Committee (COC) headquarters.

Olympics in Tokyo, Cape Verde team a team of six athletes - three men, three women - who competed in athletics

A total of 30 student athletes have been named by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for its 2023 Woman of the Year Award.

teams," said Renie Shields, chair of the Woman of the Year Selection Committee and senior associate athletics

will not take place next year due to financial factors has come with the announcement of the World Athletics

crisis at the City Council and the additional severe financial pressures currently being faced by UK Athletics

would only be spent on essential services.The decision leaves a further question over the 2026 European Athletics

million/€872 million) bill to settle equal pay claims.Glasgow's Emirates Arena will stage the World Athletics

Championships once the World Indoor Tour Gold meetings conclude in 2024 ©Getty ImagesThe 2024 World Athletics

returning to Brussels, which last staged a final in 2019.From just seven meetings in 2020 the World Athletics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has led tributes to Niels Holst-Sørensen, a member of the organisation from 1977 until 2002.

the Second World War meant the 1946 European Championships represented his first major international athletics

Valerie Adams, a double Olympic and four-times world champion in the shot put, has been elected as World Athletics

world record holder and 2012 Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie, is serving her third term on the World Athletics

on the World Athletics Council.Both the chair and deputy chair of the World Athletics Athletes’ Commission

Championships in Budapest, has been appointed director of competition and events for World Athletics

Straight off the back of our most engaging World Athletics Championships in history, we are delighted

Gyulai has been a member of the European Athletics Council since 2015, a member of the European Athletics

China surpassed the record number of gold medals at a single Asian Para Games as they moved on to 196 on the penultimate day of Hangzhou 2022.

previous record of 185, which they set during the Guangzhou 2010 edition.Among their winners were Mi Na in athletics

38.73 metres.Silver went to Na’s compatriot Li Yingli with a distance of 37.04m.It was her seventh athletics

Nigerian sprinter Nzubechi Grace Nwokocha has been banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity

The Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) has warned its costs will increase for Paris 2024 when compared to Tokyo 2020, despite the Games in France being a lot closer to home, as it announced it had signed a deal for a training base in Fontainebleau.

Fontainebleau has been chosen for an Irish athletics camp ©OFIFontainebleau, around 60 kilometres southeast

of Paris, has been chosen as a pre-Games training camp for Ireland's athletics teams.The town is renowned

 "I am very confident that this is the ideal environment for the athletics team to make their final

Sergey Bubka has backed the suggestion made by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach that Chile, currently hosting the Pan American Games, should seek to stage the Olympics.

jump record holder Javier Sotomayor is looking forward to Pan Am Games records being broken once the athletics

programme starts in Santiago ©PanAm SportsMeanwhile, looking ahead to the athletics competition, Cuba