A championship record by Mohamed Magdi Hamza in the men s shot put and a 10,000m victory by world junior champion Joshua Cheptegei were the highlights of the opening two days (5-6) of action at the African Junior Championships in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson said on the eve of the European Indoor Championships that she was riled up and raring to go” and while the 22-year-old leaves Prague with her first senior title, she was visibly disappointed to miss Natallia Dobrynska s...

Defending Nagoya Women s Marathon champion Mariya Konovalova will take on the top two finishers from last year s Asian Games at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday (8).

Dahlan Al Hamad will serve for another four years as president of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA).

IAAF vice president Sebastian Coe assisted in a media seminar on athletics in Addis Ababa on Wednesday (4), organised by the Ethiopian Sports Journalists Association (ESJA) with support from the IAAF.

Bernard Lagat, five times a world champion on the track indoors and outdoors, will be aiming for another mark in the record books when he makes his 10km road race debut on 10 May at the Morrisons Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race.