Ethiopia s Meseret Defar would have preferred to have raced over 5000m, the distance at which she has won consecutive Olympic and World titles, but she made the very best of the scheduled 3000m race at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm to wi...

Swedish favourite Abebe Aregawi is among 12 World champions including Kenya s Asbel Kiprop, USA s David Oliver, Ethiopia s Meseret Defar, Czech Republic s Zuzana Hejnova , Russia s Svetlana Shkolina and Colombia s Caterine Ibarguen and Germany s Chri...

Ethiopia's Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba, winners of the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 5000m and 10000m gold medals last week, will compete at next month's Bupa Great North Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in Newcastle on 15 September.

The IAAF is very saddened to learn of the death of Gert le Roux, from South Africa, who died at the age of 78 on Saturday (17).

Sweden s 2013 World Championships 1500m gold medallist Abebe Aregawi and her Kenyan 800m counterpart Eunice Sum sat alongside each other at the DN Galan meeting hotel the day before the IAAF Diamond League competition and the inevitable question was as...

IAAF President Lamine Diack officially opened the 2nd IAAF World Coaches Conference which was held yesterday in the Cosmos Hotel Moscow (Monday 19 August).

Ethiopia has produced many great distance runners over the years and Dinknesh Mekash could very well join the higher echelon.

Ethiopia expects much from her heroes and heroines and Meseret Defar did not disappoint her nation crossing the 5000m finish line in a time of 14:50.19 on Saturday night.

The IAAF Council presided over by President Diack met for a second occasion in Moscow.

Australia s defending champion Sally Pearson, who took silver behind Brianna Rollins, admitted that she had allowed herself to hope for gold despite having a season that only really started in June following hamstring injuries.