Italy's Marcell Jacobs and Fred Kerley of the United States, respective Tokyo 2020 100 metres gold and silver medallists, have both announced a change of coach as they head towards the Paris 2024 Olympics.

the 2022 World Championships due to leg injuries and had to settle for silver at this year’s European Athletics

medallist Quincy Watts ©Getty ImagesLike Jacobs, Kerley was eliminated in the 100m semi-finals at the World Athletics

Ruth Fuchs, two-time Olympic champion and the first woman to throw a javelin over 60 metres, has died at the age of 76.

Thuringian State Parliament.As a sports administrator, Fuchs served as the Vice-President of the East German Athletics

Association (DVfL) and also worked as an official on the Women's Commission of World Athletics.

Accra 2023 Organising Committee executive chair Kweku Ofosu Asare has promised the African Games will take place "without failure" on the delayed dates of March 8 to 23 next year.

Ofosu Asare confirmed 23 sports are planned on the programme including Paris 2024 Olympic qualifiers in athletics

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has taken no decision on a return for Russian athletes at its Congress in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

Federations have adhered to this, but bobsleigh and skeleton joins other sports led by IOC members in athletics

  1959 Summer Universiade, Turin: women's high jump gold. 1961 Summer Universiade, Sofia: women's high jump gold.

retiring as an athlete she taught physical education in Bucharest and was President of the Romanian Athletics

Federation between 1988 and 2005.Balas, who died in 2016 aged 79, was also a member of the European Athletics

Technical Committee and of the Women's Commission of then-known International Association of Athletics

Hayward Field in Eugene, the venue for last year's World Athletics Championships, is set to host another

of Oregon-based stadium underwent a complete rebuild from 2018 to 2020 in time for the first World Athletics

the men's pole vault and decathlon and women's 800m, 1500m and 3,000m steeplechase.It has topped the athletics

Triple Paralympic champion Sareh Javanmardi is one of ten candidates vying for a place on the Asian Paralympic Committee (AsPC) Athletes' Committee Executive Board for the next four-year term.

 In addition, Emirati cyclist Salama Alkhateri, Saudi Arabian athletics star Nour Alsana, and Bahraini

It’s a game that's always tempting to play when there is a huge step on in women's running events - that is, matching it against male performance in the past.

took up road running in 2018 and ran her first marathon in March 2022 - had sent ripples through the athletics

ImagesOne other measure of the extraordinariness of Assefa’s record is that, according to the World Athletics

record set at the 2019 Chicago Marathon by Kenya's Brigid Kosgei ©Getty ImagesIn a piece posted on the Athletics

It also confirms to the World Athletics rules of a maximum 400-millimetres stack height."

Last year's World Triathlon Championship Finals in Abu Dhabi delivered fireworks in the searing November heat.

iconic Tirantes Bridge to the transition area at the small Centro Gallego de Tecnificación Deportiva athletics

Tigist Assefa retained her Berlin Marathon title in stupendous fashion today as she shattered the women's world record, clocking 2 hours 11min 53sec after Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge had earned a record fifth men's title in 2:02:42.

runner.In 2014 she was fourth in the African Championships and in the International Association of Athletics

Eliud Kipchoge, who will seek a record third Olympic marathon title in Paris next year, has chosen tomorrow’s Berlin Marathon - where he broke his own world record last year - as a key part of his preparation.

The United States' National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) has recommended cannabis to be removed from banned drug classes.

informed by industry and subject matter experts", and last year's Summit on Cannabinoids in College Athletics

More than a fifth of Afghanistan's delegation for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games is set to be comprised of women.

by a women's team.Female athletes coming from Italy and Australia are also registered in cycling and athletics

A mural in memory of those held in a torture camp at Chile's National Stadium in Santiago is to be painted in time for this year's Pan American Games.

wire, in memory of the prisoners.The Stadium is due to host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and athletics

Fiji has named a squad of 592 for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands - and will compete in 23 sports.

Suliano Volivoli, Rokoua Rasaku and Alusio Vakadranu.The other sports Fiji will compete in are archery, athletics