Three years after being soundly beaten into third place at the Sanyo Women s Half Marathon, Sally Chepyego returned to Okayama on Monday (23) in the hope of a better result. The Kenyan well and truly avenged that defeat and shattered the course record ...

Statisticians A Lennart Julin and Mirko Jalava look back on the best relay performances of the year with Julin covering the men s events and Jalava the women s.

The jumping events provided some of the top highlights of last year s Russian Winter and the 2014 edition of the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting is similarly expected to produce some high-quality performances after the organisers revealed the fields for the...

Thailand dominated the athletics events at the 27th edition of the South East Asian (SEA) Games, which ended on Thursday (19) after five days of competition in the city of Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

The last IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting of 2013 will again be the traditional finale to the year in this discipline, the Iris Lotto Crosscup in Brussels, and the focus of attention on Sunday (22) will be Belgium s newly crowned European under-23 cro...

Hi everyone. I m pleased to write in my latest IAAF diary that last Tuesday (17 December) I completed my first throws sessions since undergoing knee and ankle surgery three months ago.

The organisers of the 33rd edition of the Osaka International Women s Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, have announced that Ukraine s reigning champion Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko will defend her title on 26 January.

The athletics world is mourning the death of Russian long distance great Pyotr Bolotnikov at the age of 83 on Friday night (20).

Pole Vault star Renaud Lavillenie gave early notice that it will take a lot to take away his IAAF World Indoor Championships title next March when he opened his indoor season at the Perche Elite Tour meeting in the Parisian suburb of Aulnay Sous Bois b...

The Netherlands Sifan Hassan confirmed her status as one of the rising stars of distance running on Sunday (22) when she won the women s 6km race at the Iris Lotto Crosscup in Brussels, the last IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting of 2013.