The Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) has commemorated double Olympic champion Miruts Yifter, who died last month at the age of 72.

Yifter did the 5,000m and 10,000m double at the both the 1977 and 1979 International Association of Athletics

Czech throwers at the Golden Spike in Ostrava, which forms part of the International Association of Athletics

The Golden Spike is an annual athletics event held at the Mestsky Stadion in Ostrava, first organised

Besim Hasani has ambitiously targeted a top 10 position on the Olympic medals table by 2024 after being re-elected President of the Kosovan Olympic Committee.

 She led an eight-strong team which also participated in athletics, cycling, shooting and swimming

van Dyk has announced he will officially retire from cycling and instead focus on his first sport of athletics

silver at London 2012.This followed two silver and three bronze medals won in middle and long distance athletics

race gold at Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesHis success has been credited with rising the profile of Paralympic athletics

European Olympic Committees (EOC) acting President Janez Kocijančic has left the door open for Patrick Hickey to resume control of the organisation by claiming his future position is "up to him", as well as being dependent on the outcome of his legal case in Brazil. 

basic agreement between the EOC and the European Athletic Association about a high-level presence for athletics

A special Sports Congress has taken place under the stewardship of the Nepal Olympic Committee in order to "develop a synergy of sports development" in the Asian nation.

an Olympic medal but sent a seven-strong team to Rio 2016, participating in the sports of archery, athletics

Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has been made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

services to sport.Sir Roger broke the four-minute mile barrier on May 6, 1954 at Oxford’s Iffley Road athletics

Shot put superstar Valerie Adams has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours amid several other accolades for members of the sporting movement in New Zealand.

streak lasted across 56 competitions from 2010 to 2014, the year she was International Association of Athletics

Nine-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt and American gymnast Simone Biles have been awarded the male and female International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Best Athlete of 2016 prizes.

both the 100m and 200m world records and will go in search of his 12th International Association of Athletics

Ticket sale information from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games have shown that wheelchair basketball sold 85 per cent of its allocation to the delight of the world governing body's President Ulf Mehrens.

 Across the nine days of action a total of 354,734 sold, while ticket sales from athletics were

Fancy Bears', the hacking group behind hundreds of leaked documents relating to anti-doping organisations in recent months, have been named in a United States security services report into cyber bodies linked to the Russian Intelligence Services. 

barred from competing in Rio by the International Paralympic Committee, International Association of Athletics

"Making a stand for clean sport" has been hailed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in third place in an online list of their "Top 50 moments of 2016".

programme - Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, snowboard and ice sledge hockey - as well as athletics

Will it be "Advantage Sir Andrew Murray" at next Year’s Wimbledon?

And will Sir Mohammed Farah be getting to his mark in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres in the 2017 world athletics

question to be answered in 2017 surely is whether Lord Sebastian Coe can get the much-maligned sport of athletics

Tadashi Ishii has resigned from his role as President and chief executive of Dentsu after an employee of the marketing giants committed suicide on Christmas Day last year due to being overworked.

agency for the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and other bodies such as the International Association of Athletics

Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) President Haile Gebrselassie has said the national governing body

In March, Ethiopia was among five countries designated by the International Association of Athletics

international event, including the Olympic Games.Haile Gebrselassie (right) was elected head of the Ethiopian Athletics

".The list also includes Belarus, Kenya, Morocco and Ukraine, while Russia is currently banned from athletics