Colombia s Lorena Arenas produced the best result of the first day of competition at the ODESUR Games (South American Games) on Thursday (13) by setting a South American 20,000m race walk record.

With two weeks to go until the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, five-time winner Zersenay Tadese has revealed he will be vying for an unprecedented sixth individual gold medal.

Organisers of the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon have made some small changes to the course, making it flatter and faster. It means the high-quality elite fields will head to the Portuguese capital for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday (16) with high h...

The IAAF is very saddened to learn of the death of the renowned walking coach Jerzy Hausleber, widely known as ‘the father of Mexican walking , on Thursday (13).

Brazil s Anderson Henriques posted the best result of the second day of the Odesur Games (South American Games) athletics programme by winning the 400m in a Games record of 45.03 on Friday (14).

Three 2013 IAAF World Championships gold medallists competed in the Sydney Track Classic; David Oliver, Eunice Sum and LaShawn Merritt all won, and each of them impressively on Saturday (15).