The 40th edition of the Prefontaine Classic on 31 May, a 2014 IAAF Diamond League meeting, has put together a superb men's shot put field which will feature every global championship gold medallist since 2011, the meeting organisers announced on Wednes...

Ireland s leading distance runner Fionnuala Britton has confirmed her participation in this year s SPAR Great Ireland Run 10k, which will take place on the roads of the Phoenix Park in Dublin on Sunday 6 April, organisers for the IAAF Silver Label Road...

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had a phenomenal 2013 even by her own exalted standards, winning both the 100m and 200m double at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, as well as helping Jamaica to gold in the 4x100m relay.

French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie set a world record* of 6.16m at the Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Saturday (15).

Following in the footsteps of Renaud Lavillenie and Genzebe Dibaba indoors on Saturday, the world records continued to fall this weekend as Kenya s Florence Kiplagat stopped the clock in 1:05:12 at the eDreams Mitja Marat de Barcelona on Sunday (16)

Almensch Belete took the spoils on home soil at the sixth leg of the Lotto CrossCup in Rotselaar, Belgium, on Sunday (16).

Ecuador s Rolando Saquipay provided the headlines at the 2014 South American Race Walking Championships in the Bolivian city of Cochabama this weekend (15/16) by winning the men s 20km event and relegating Guatemala s London 2012 Olympic Games silver m...

Haile Gebrselassie, the man regarded by many as the greatest distance runner of all time, will be the main pacemaker for the men s race at the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday 13 April, race organisers announced on Monday (17).

The ERGO Arena, the venue for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Polish city of Sopot, was officially opened on Sunday (16) and almost 6000 people flocked to the stadium to get a glimpse of where the most important athletics event of the y...

Four finals were held on the first day of the Russian Indoor Championships at the CSKA Indoor Arena in Moscow, but Kseniya Ryzhova stole the show with a world-leading 400m time of 51.06 on Monday (17).