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Chair Lavillenie among three re-elected to World Athletics Athletes' Commission and joined by new members

  • Budapest 2023

García, American sprinter Jasmine Todd and British sprinter Adam Gemili have been elected to the World Athletics

2027 join six athletes who were elected last year, with a further six set to be appointed by the World Athletics

have served as chair and deputy chair respectively since 2019, entitling them to places on the World Athletics

to be a strong voice for all athletes around the world and to continue to grow this amazing sport of athletics

European Championships in Munich, Todd helped the United States to women's 4x100m relay at the World Athletics

The transformation that athletics needs begins by placing athletes at the centre of the debate."


FISU President says Budapest would be "ideal host" for Summer World University Games

  • Universiade

Federation (FISU) Acting President Leonz Eder has travelled to Hungary's capital Budapest during the World Athletics

Péter Juhász and director of international relations Ancic-Valkai Ágnes during his visit.The National Athletics

Centre has been built to host the World Athletics Championships to add to the venues in Budapest.It

Championships.Eder underlined Budapest's capability of hosting the FISU Games.Budapest is staging the ongoing World Athletics




Melbourne 1956 Olympic 800 metres champion Courtney dies aged 90

  • Olympics

Tom Courtney, who won Olympic gold at 800 metres for the United States at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 has died, five days after his 90th birthday.

Tom was a true man of Fordham, and we are proud to call him a Ram," Fordham director of athletics Ed




Tentoglou takes long jump gold from Pinnock with late drama at World Athletics Championships

  • Budapest 2023

champion Miltiadis Tentoglou pinched the men's long jump gold from Jamaica's Wayne Pinnock at the World Athletics

final.The Netherlands' Femke Bol, left, dominated the women's 400m hurdles final for a first World Athletics

to compete at the World Championships by a Disciplinary Panel last week, having been charged by the Athletics

from Quincy Hall of the US allowed him to pip compatriot Vernon Norwood to bronze by 0.02.The World Athletics



Russians set to return at World Taekwondo Paris Grand Prix despite World Championships ban

  • Taekwondo

Russian Olympic champions Maksim Khramtsov and Vladislav Larin have been cleared by World Taekwondo to compete as individual neutrals at next month's Grand Prix in Paris, despite being banned from the World Championships in Baku.

in following the IOC's updated recommendations on Russia and Belarus, although some sports including athletics


Duncan Mackay: The inside story of Victor Conte, BALCO and one of athletics' biggest doping scandals

  • Inside the Blogs

It was at the World Athletics Championships 20 years ago in Paris that I first properly became aware

100 and 200 metres had tested positive for the stimulant modafinil.The International Association of Athletics

Federations (IAAF), the previous name for the organisation now called World Athletics, disqualified

But still calls to the IAAF and UK Athletics drew no information.

Chambers accepted an invitation from the British Athletics Writers' Association (BAWA) to attend its

Other big names in athletics were dragged into the scandal, including the sport’s golden girl Marion


World Athletics provides equipment to support Ukrainian athletes

  • Budapest 2023

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has delivered training equipment to Ukrainian athletes alongside

, and its Beijing 2008 Olympic heptathlon champion Nataliya Dobrynska secured election to the World Athletics

and its charitable arm the International Athletics Foundation members of the Diamond League Association.The

This year, we have heard your request to provide athletics equipment destroyed by the war, and support

World Athletics has taken a firmer stance than most governing bodies in response to the war in Ukraine

And I want you to know that World Athletics will continue to support you as long as you need help."


Martin and Perez complete race walking "double double" for Spain at World Athletics Championships

  • Athletics

Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez completed a "double double" for Spain here today as they added world 35 kilometres race walk titles to the 20km versions they had won at the weekend in a race where men and women started together at 7am local time to mitigate against the heatwave.

20km medal by one place at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, victory on the opening day of this year's World Athletics

moment.Spain's Maria Perez had injury doubts before securing a second race walk victory at the World Athletics

ultimately unsuccessful effort in the men's 35km race walk to earn France a first medal at the World Athletics

year’s European Championships in Munich.France are going to have to look elsewhere for a first World Athletics

right, had to settle for a "heartbreaking" second successive race walking fourth place at the World Athletics



El Moutawakel claims World Athletics Council elections pushed "door wide open for women"

  • Athletics

World Athletics Council member Nawal El Moutawakel has claimed here that Budapest will be remembered

Congress.Speaking to insidethegames after being honoured at a gathering of champions at the Museum of World Athletics

The World Athletics Council through to 2027 is set to feature 13 male and 13 female officials, with the

representation in leadership positions,She claimed progress had been made on that front by the IOC and World Athletics