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National sponsor logos allowed on kit for IAAF World Championships in Doha

  • Athletics

National teams will be permitted for the first time to display the logo of a sponsor on their kit at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, starting next year with the latest edition in Doha - for which qualifying standards have been announced.

"We only have really big global moments every two years," said IAAF President Sebastian Coe."


Coe sends a message as Kipchoge and Ibarguen named male and female IAAF Athletes of the Year

  • Athletics

Two 34-year-olds were honoured here tonight as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year awards went to Kenya’s marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and Colombia’s multiple world and Olympic triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen.

In introducing the evening’s celebrations, IAAF President Sebastian Coe made what might or might not

decision to re-admit the Russian Anti-Doping Agency to the fold.Addressing the many athletes present, Coe


Budapest officially awarded 2023 IAAF World Championships

  • Athletics

Budapest was today officially confirmed as the host city of the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.

the traditional bid campaign and instead introduced a consultation process.IAAF President Sebastian Coe

of extraordinary athletic tradition and great experience in organising world-class sports events," Coe



British World Championship medallist appointed new chief executive of IAAF

  • Athletics

Briton Jon Ridgeon has been appointed as the new chief executive of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), it was announced here today.

active lifestyle division of CSM Sport and Entertainment, the company of which IAAF President Sebastian Coe

Jon for many years and admired his passion, energy and innovation in sport, particularly athletics," Coe

former director of Villages and Games Services at London 2012 and another close business associate of Coe

Championships in Doha in September, 2019, to support Jon and ensure a smooth transition across the sport," Coe


World Athletics Heritage Plaque award launched by IAAF President Coe

  • Athletics

Legendary track and field performers Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zatopek are among a dozen athletes being honoured here as the first recipients of a scheme to mark their deeds with commemorative plaques.

with each recipient.The creation of this award was officially announced by IAAF President Sebastian Coe

athletics legends including Nurmi, Owens, Blankers-Koen and Zatopek.On stage, each family presented Coe

Coe also opened a public competition to design the plaque and launched a dedicated plaque website section


Mike Rowbottom: Gebrselassie pays personal price for political pressures

  • Inside the Blogs

November 2016, the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), Sebastian Coe

Coe told Kenya-based Citizen.co.ke: "What Federation anywhere in the world would not want somebody with

Starbucks Reserve.If Gebrselassie does still harbour any wider political ambitions -  as with Coe


Spanish Government promise to allow athletes from Kosovo to compete under own flag at major events

  • Olympics

Spain's Government has promised to allow athletes from Kosovo to compete under their own flag and without discrimination at major events despite the nation's ongoing refusal to recognise the country.

In a statement, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) said

by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, Josep Borrell, to the COE

their own national symbols, anthem and flag, in accordance with Olympic protocol," the IOC and the COE


Alan Hubbard: Will we non-petrol-heads ever learn to love Lewis Hamilton?

  • Inside the Blogs

Outside of committed petrol-heads, Lewis Hamilton has never really been the flavour of any month in his homeland. Yet in the pantheon of British sports stars he surely deserves to be up there with the best.

once, but certainly revving up among the leaders, along with the likes of Roger Bannister, Sebastian Coe



IAAF officially sign four-year worldwide sponsorship deal with QNB

  • Athletics

Qatar National Bank (QNB), the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, has officially come on board as an official partner of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after a four-year deal was signed in Doha.

the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan next year.The deal was signed by IAAF President Sebastian Coe

partnerships and taking the sport of athletics to new organisations, their customers and stakeholders," said Coe


IAAF will not use new world ranking system to qualify athletes for 2019 World Championships

  • Athletics

As tickets go on sale for the 2019 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athletics Championships in Doha, the IAAF have announced that the existing qualification system will remain in place, reversing their initial decision.

IAAF President Sebastian Coe said he strongly believes that long term, a world ranking system is the


IAAF Taskforce and Russian Athletics Federation hold talks in Rome before Council meeting in December

  • Athletics

Talks took place in Rome today between representatives of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) and the Taskforce established by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 2015 to verify anti-doping reforms that will enable the country to have its current suspension from international competition lifted.

in their report".Rune Anderson, head of the IAAF Taskforce, pictured with IAAF President Sebastian Coe

discussed by the taskforce before any recommendation is put to the Council," IAAF President Sebastian Coe


Michael Pavitt: WADA civil war - Does everyone need a rethink?

  • Inside the Blogs

If you are looking to get your point of view across, parking your tanks on the White House lawn is a good way of achieving it.

IOC President Thomas Bach and IAAF chief Sebastian Coe would be examples of this, with both having been