The 2013 Boston Marathon champions, Ethiopia s Lelisa Desisa and Kenya s Rita Jeptoo, will defend their titles at the 118th running of the race on April 21, the organisers of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced on Wednesday (11).

One of the four gold medals won by US athletics legend Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was today sold at auction for $1,466,574.

More than 100 participants from all six of the IAAF Area Associations gathered in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running on Monday (9).

Mohammed Aman likes competing in Moscow. The Ethiopian teenager has never lost a race in the Russian capital and it s a record he hopes to maintain on 2 February when he competes at the Russian Winter, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

I am counting the days till New Year s Eve. Not because of any big party being planned, I just can t wait to see 2014 appear on my calendar!

Jenny Simpson and Brenda Martinez, the two US women who earned medals in the middle distances at this year s IAAF World Championships, are the first names to be announced for the 2014 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on 8 F...