Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis started 2022 by winning with 6.02 metres in Karlsruhe at

unsuccessful cracks at 6.19m, a centimetre above the world record he set in 2020.The main competition to Duplantis

A uniquely busy season of athletics gets fully underway tomorrow as Olympic and world champions converge on Karlsruhe's Messehalle for the first of the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.

offer at the European Championships in Munich and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.At least Mondo Duplantis

seek to win two new global titles indoors and out.Looking ahead to his first appearance of the season, Duplantis

If nobody has jumped six metres in Karlsruhe, then I feel like it's about that time," Duplantis said

Olympic champions Karsten Warholm of Norway and Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica have been named World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards, held virtually again this year.

, who set a world record of 23.37 metres and retained his Olympic title, Sweden's 2020 winner Mondo Duplantis

The inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships in Latvian capital Riga will take place from September 30 to October 1 in 2023, the 226th meeting of the World Athletics Council decided today.

of Jamaica.The men’s finalists are Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda, Ryan Crouser of the US, Swede Mondo Duplantis

The undefeated American shot putter Ryan Crouser and double Olympic medallist Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda are among the five finalists for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award, with Sweden's Daniel Ståhl among those who missed out.

of the Year ©Getty ImagesKipchoge also won the Enschede Marathon in The Netherlands in April.Mondo Duplantis

Italian National Olympic Committee President Giovanni Malagò has accused World Athletics of "a lack of respect" after the country’s two Tokyo 2020 gold medallists were left off its short list for the Male World Athlete of the Year award.

ImagesThe 10 nominees are Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, the United States’ Ryan Crouser, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis

A 10-athlete shortlist for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award has been announced - headlined by Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser, who both set new world records in 2021.

the 10,000m, and Tokyo 2020 1500m gold medallist Jakob Ingebrigtsen are also on the shortlist.Mondo Duplantis

won this award last year and is joined on the 2021 shortlist by fellow Swede Daniel Ståhl.Mondo Duplantis

year he broke the world record ©Getty ImagesStåhl won Olympic and Diamond League discus titles, while Duplantis

The five-person shortlist of nominees for the Female and Male World Athlete of the Year Awards will be announced later this week.

October 21), with female award nominees set to be announced a day later.Sweden's pole vaulter Armand Duplantis

an international panel of experts as nominees set to be revealed on November 8 and 9.Sweden's Armand Duplantis

Sifan Hassan from The Netherlands and Norway’s Karsten Warholm have been crowned the 2021 European Athletes of the Year at the Golden Tracks awards ceremony which was held in Lausanne in Switzerland.

award in back-to-back editions.The Norwegian was part of an illustrious shortlist alongside Armand Duplantis

Members of the British Tennis Journalists’ Association (BTJA) have written to the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tours with an urgent request that they restore personal press contact with players.

pole vault final I walked out of the stadium past the mixed zone to see the new Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis

Clothing brand UNIQLO has extended its partnership agreement with Sweden's Olympic and Paralympic Committees until and including the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis won one of three Swedish gold medals at the Tokyo 2020

Anzhelika Sidorova, who was in tears after having to settle for Olympic silver in Tokyo, experienced a reversal of fortune at the Diamond League Final in Zurich as she became only the third women’s pole vaulter to better 5.00 metres outdoors, winning with a Diamond League record of 5.01m.

might have been topped with the final action of the evening as Olympic men’s pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis

Duplantis had earned an expected victory with a meeting record of 5.98m before going on to clear 6.06m

A host of Olympic gold medallists will be in attendance at the two-day Wanda Diamond League final which starts in Zürich tomorrow, with 32 champions due to emerge from those who have qualified in the course of this season’s previous 11 meetings.

100m, Fred Kerley.Sweden’s 21-year-old Olympic men’s pole vault champion and world record-holder Mondo Duplantis

metres respectively at tonight’s Diamond League meeting in Brussels as Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis

Duplantis won the men’s pole vault with a first-time clearance of 5.91 metres, a height that proved too

of 6.00m.And for the tenth competition this year the bar rose to 6.19m, a centimetre above the mark Duplantis

set in Glasgow last yearMondo Duplantis took the pole vault victory, but was unable to break his own

If you’re not Swedish, and you’re not Finnish, it is probably hard to understand what the annual athletics match between these two nations means. But the names they use for it offer a small clue. The Swedes call it "The Finn Battle". The Finns call it "The Sweden Battle".

year.Two of Sweden’s current Olympic champions - discus thrower Daniel Ståhl and pole-vaulter Mondo Duplantis