Statisticians A Lennart Julin and Mirko Jalava look back on the best throwing performances of the year.

The 43rd edition of the famous Corrida Pedestre International de Houilles, the last major road race in France for 2014 and an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, will see Kenya s Cornelius Kangogo defend the title he won in 2013 on Sunday (28).

Ukraine s Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko will return to the Osaka International Women's Marathon on 25 January and bid to become just the second woman to win in the Japanese city on three successive occasions, after organisers of the IAAF Silver Label Road Rac...

Silas Kiplagat, the fastest man in the world over 1500m in 2014, will return to the Russian Winter meeting in Moscow on 1 February as he aims to secure another victory at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

Qatar s world indoor champion and World Athlete of the Year finalist Mutaz Essa Barshim will compete in four indoor meetings next February, his programme being completed after organisers for the Moravia High Jump Tour event in Trinec, Czech Republic, a...

Organisers of the 58th Campaccio International Cross Country, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting in the Italian town of San Giorgio su Legnano, have turned to some of the top young distance-running talent around the world to showcase their event on 6...

You have to go back more than 30 years to find the last European runner who stood on the podium after the junior men s race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships when Spain s Pere Casacuberta won in 1984 so it has to be a very long shot tha...

The athletics world is accustomed to seeing Ethiopian women winning 5000m or 10,000m titles, but no one from the East African nation of 94million whose last name does not start with a ‘D had been able to get to the top of the podium at the Olymp...

The Iris Lotto CrossCup was marked by two thrilling duels between two Kenyan athletes. Alex Kibet won a fierce battle against his compatriot Abraham Kapsis Kipyatich while 19-year-old Sheila Chepngetich Keter triumphed over Commonwealth 1500m champion ...

Timothy Toroitich scored his third victory on Spanish soil this winter at the 35th edition of the Cross Internacional de Venta de Banos on Sunday (21).