Just one word for specialists: when I cleared 6.04m, I used a 5.20m-14.3 pole; then, when I tried to clear 6.16m, I changed my pole for the second and third attempts and was using a 14.0 pole. It was the first time that I had bent it, so it worked qui...

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

The IAAF Technical Committee held its annual meeting in Alba, Italy, on Saturday and Sunday (8-9) and was hosted by the Official IAAF Partner Mondo.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has set her sights on the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, next month after a spectacular weekend at the British Athletics Indoor Championships in Sheffield where she broke the national high jump record on Sat...

Poland s Anna Rogowska went to the top of the 2014 women s pole vault list when she cleared a world-leading 4.76m at the Flanders Indoor meeting, an IAAF Permit meeting, on Sunday (9).

Eleni Gebrehiwot's margin of supremacy wasn't as decisive as last year but the German-based Ethiopian still ran out a dominant winner at the ING Eurocross in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday (9).

London 2012 Olympic Games 400m champion Kirani James, from Grenada, has proved to be one of the genuine superstars of global athletics in the past few seasons.

USA's Ashton Eaton has acquired all the multi-event honours the sport has to offer in the past two years.

When the drug testers called at 6.50am a few weeks ago, not even Robbie Heffernan s dog barked.

The 38th edition of the famous Arnstadt high jump meeting in Germany was arguably the best with the Russian pair of Ivan Ukhov and Aleksey Dmitrik both going over a meeting record of 2.40m on Saturday (8).