Ireland s Fionnuala Britton has her chance to make history at the 2013 SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade on Sunday (8) when she bids to become the first woman to win the continental title three times.

One of Raphael Holzdeppe s first competitions of 2013 was the Indoor Meeting in Karlsruhe, an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting. The year ended up being his most successful one to date, so the World Pole Vault champion will return to the German city on 1 Febr...

With exactly one month to go until the Campaccio, the first of two IAAF Cross Country Permit meetings in Italy in January, organisers have announced their first top athlete and they don t come much bigger than World cross-country champion Japhet Korir.

The world is today in mourning over the death of one of its most respected and revered icons, former South African president Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday (5).

Three years of nagging injuries dented Kenenisa Bekele s invincibility, reducing him to an also ran on the world stage and giving cause to the theory that the Ethiopian superstar had come to the end of his career.

Rafith Rodriguez and Rosibel Garcia provided the highlights for a strong Colombian team that dominated the athletics events of the 17th Bolivarian Games (Juegos Bolivarianos) that took place in the Peruvian city of Trujillo, and ended after five days o...