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Paralympic champion Hug wins sixth Boston Marathon in record time

  • Athletics News

Switzerland's Marcel Hug, a six-time Paralympic champion, has won his sixth Boston Marathon wheelchair race while setting a course record time, while Susannah Scaroni of the United States claimed her first-ever win in the women's event.


Tampering is subject of AIU’s first Shining A Light article, Howman announces

  • Athletics

David Howman, chair of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), has announced the start of a thought leadership

The first article, on the subject of Tampering, will be sent to global media and World Athletics Member

Beyond being the guardians of clean athletics, we want to help in terms of stimulating engagement and


World Championship silver medallist to lead skeleton at Swiss Sliding

  • Bobsleigh and Skeleton

Marina Gilardoni, a World Championship silver medallist, is to join Swiss Sliding as the head of its skeleton division, it has been announced. 

competed as a bobsleigh pusher having switched to the sport having originally started her sports career in athletics


Messi and Mbappé will be among stars as Olympic hosts Paris stage Laureus World Sports Awards

  • Paris 2024

Argentina’s FIFA World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi and his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Kylian Mbappé, who scored a hat-trick in the final, are among athletes who will assemble in next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games host city Paris on May 8 for the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards.

nominations for the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards which will be held in Paris ©Getty ImagesWorld Athletics



IIHF President Tardif warns Russia and Belarus will remain banned until war in Ukraine is over

  • Ice Hockey

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President Luc Tardif has revealed that a "final decision" on the participation of Russia and Belarus for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo will not be made until next March but stressed that they will only return if the war in Ukraine is over.

sports which have indicated that they will also adhere with the IOC’s recommendations.Others, including athletics


Mike Rowbottom: McIlroy’s Masters message will take some deciphering

  • Inside the Blogs

Philippe Wahl, chief executive of the La Poste Groupe that has just become an official supporter of Paris 2024, points out that the first marathon runner, Pheidippides, who reputedly brought news to Athens in 490BC of the Greek victory over Persia at Marathon before dropping dead, was a postman.

And what of athletics?


Kipchoge to make Boston Marathon debut as event marks 10 years anniversary of deadly bombing

  • Athletics

Kenya’s world record holder and double Olympic gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge will be looking to add another major title to his long list of honours tomorrow when he makes his debut in the 127th Boston Marathon, an event that will mark 10 years since the bomb attack near the finish line.

up.But it does not matter how fast Kipchoge or Beriso run, it will not count as a world record.World Athletics


South African Olympic race walker Shange jailed for rape

  • Athletics

South African race walker Lebogang Shange has been jailed for rape and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm.

18sec.Lebogang Shange of South Africa, right, finished fourth in the men's 20km race walk at the 2017 World Athletics


Hoare wins Australian Athletes Performance of the Year for Commonwealth Games 1500m victory

  • Athletics

has been named the recipient of the Bruce McAvaney Award for Performance of the Year as part of the Athletics

in Spain and one by Brett Robinson over in Japan and then the great performances of both the World Athletics

Ollie Hoare pipped Eleanor Patterson, winner of the gold medal in the high jump at the World Athletics

Indoor Championships and reached the semi final in the 1500m at the World Athletics Championships in

Female Athlete of the Year when winning the Marjorie Jackson Award.Barber became the first woman in athletics

history to win consecutive javelin titles at the World Athletics Championships.Paralympic stalwart Evan



African Games hosts launch tenth Ghana Fastest Human event at Accra Stadium

  • Ghana 2023

Accra Sports Stadium, due to play host next year for Ghana’s staging of the 13th African Games, has seen the launch of the tenth edition of the Ghana Fastest Human (GFH) initiative.

Olympic Committee/Facebook"Our partnership with the Ghana Fastest Human has brought development to athletics

new sporting facilities are springing up at the Games Village at the University of Ghana, Legon where athletics

The steam is increasing in athletics, and we hope to shine at the African Games," he said.The launch

the Ghanaian 4x100m team that set a national record of 38.26sec in finishing fifth at the 1993 World Athletics