Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) vice-president Chris Jenkins has hailed the integration of Para athletics

support the development of emerging Para athletes and coaches.He stressed the significance of Para athletics

Here in the Youth Games, we have athletics for the first time, we are delighted to have the events."

issue of classification, which can prove costly for athletes and countries to attend events abroad.Para athletics

Getty Images"We've been working really closely with International Federations, in this case, having athletics

It's the first time we’ve had a Para event at the Youth Games in athletics, first time we've had a GAPS

World Boxing’s announcement of its first six members yesterday demonstrated that the fledgling governing body still has a long, long way to go before it can claim to have fulfilled its main stated aim of ensuring it represents the sport in the Olympic Movement.

likely be either someone who owes their loyalty to him or Sebastian Coe, who has demonstrated at World Athletics

Russian and Belarusian athletes are set to learn next month whether they will be allowed to compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympics - but some face missing out even if they are permitted to return to competition.

last year in response to the war in Ukraine.Among those are the Summer Paralympics sports of swimming, athletics

In the sports that we govern and we have four summer sports only in athletics, swimming, Para powerlifting

decides not to suspend [the membership of the NPCs], they still have chances to qualify for the Games in athletics

Extraordinary General Assembly last November.IPC President Andrew Parsons said Russian athletes in athletics

taekwondo, triathlon, weightlifting and wrestling have all adhered to the IOC’s recommendations.But athletics

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has approved an appeal to foreign Governments proposing a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes entering their territory.

to be implemented.Almost all International Federations have followed the IOC's advice except World Athletics

champion Sebastian Coe, is adamant that Russia and Belarus should not participate and has stated that "athletics

be on the wrong side of history".One organisation that has taken a different stance to that of World Athletics

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women's javelin throw at the Hasely Crawford Stadium ©Getty ImagesMaddie Down, centre, won one of four athletics

and Para athletics golds for England on day five in the women's T38 long jump ©Getty ImagesDelta Amidzovski

Scotland's Matthew Ward completed a stellar Commonwealth Youth Games here with a fourth gold on the final day of swimming competition in the men's 200 metres individual medley.

Commonwealth Youth Games with medal matches in fast5 netball and beach volleyball on Tobago and the end of athletics

, Para athletics and track cycling on Trinidad.

England enjoyed a highly successful penultimate day of athletics and Para athletics competition at the

the top three with Niamh Mac Alasdair posting a 4.09m effort and Reese Prior a 3.73m.In the remaining athletics

Thea Brown took silver in 13.53, edging out Ramokgopa who clocked the same time.Athletics and Para athletics

Nominations have now opened for the 12th Summer European Olympic Committees (EOC) Best Young European Athlete prize.

went to Serbian athlete Angelina Topić, who aged 17 won bronze in the high jump at the 2022 European Athletics

Athletics coach Raylene Bates has been named New Zealand's Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Paralympics

Based in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Bates is the high-performance Para lead at Athletics New Zealand and has been

Australia's Lauren Bates won the first gold medal in track cycling at the Trinbago 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games here with an impressive display in the women's points race.

relay winners in 3:33.44.Four Commonwealth Youth Games records were beaten on a day of high-quality athletics

Germany's oldest Olympian Marianne Werner has died at the age of 99. 

also awarded the Dr.Hans-Heinrich-Sievert Award.Werner is believed to have been the oldest Olympic athletics

Kenyan marathon runner Michael Kunyuga Njenga has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity

5,000 drug tests by the end of the year.The AIU also held a strategy meeting in Nairobi with ADAK and Athletics

A total of eight countries have expressed an interest in bidding for the 2027 European Para Championships (EPC) which is expected to expand with extra sports.

Middag refused to rule out the possibility of adding athletics and swimming but admitted the EPC was

For the balance of the sports that are in today, it would differ a lot if athletics and swimming came

Now, we have 1,500 athletes but when a sport like athletics comes in it would double or maybe triple

If we brought in athletics and swimming it would exclude a lot of cities that are bidding because of

Organisers of the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships has revealed that focus was "uniqueness

 The back side of the medal shows the National Athletics Centre, the venue for the World Championships

Moreover, for the first time in the history of the World Athletics Championships, all three coaches of

kilograms of metal and 450 metres of ribbon used.Leftover materials from the racetrack at the National Athletics

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Games ©Getty ImagesGeorge Wells of Australia triumphed in the men's discus throw on the first day of athletics