Renaud Lavillenie, Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter are the most successful athletes in the history of the Diamond Race, the season-long points scoring battle in 32 event disciplines, which is at the core of the annual IAAF Diamond League.

Reigning champion Michaela Dimitriadu and Germany’s Florian Reus headline this weekend’s IAU 24 Hour World and European Championships in Steenbergen on May 11.

The provisional entry lists for the opening meeting of the 2013 season of the IAAF Diamond League on Friday 10 May in Doha, Qatar, are now available.

Athletics legend Jesse Owens famously raced against horses after winning four gold medals at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games but Norway’s two-time Olympic Javelin champion Andreas Thorkildsen decided he was better off on top, rather than alongside,...

IAAF President Lamine Diack spent four days in Fiji last week as the guest of the Oceania Athletics Association (OAA) where he opened the OAA Council meeting on 2 May and attended the opening day of the Area Association’s Congress the following ...

Veronica Campbell-Brown had a great run at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting on Saturday, an IAAF World Challenge meeting, beating a classy field and winning her debut 100m race of the year in 11.01.