World AthleticsWorld Athletics (formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations – IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, such as running, jumping and throwing.
The IAAF World U20 Championships Tampere 2018 (10-15 July), which get underway one week from today in the southern Finnish city, are set to become one of the largest editions in the history of these championships.
At a meeting in London between the IAAF and Athletics South Africa (ASA) over the IAAF’s new Eligibility Regulations for Female Classification, both organisations agreed that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was the right body to arbitrate this matter and to respect its final decision.
In 100 days’ time, hundreds of the world’s best athletes will descend on the Czech Republic for the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018.
With the first IAAF Diamond League 2018 meeting on European soil just around the corner, here are five things to look out for when the Road To The Final continues in Rome this week.
The IAAF Heritage World / Continental Cup – 1977 To 2018 – Exhibition will open in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Tuesday 5 June.
South African Caster Semenya produced another peerless display of middle-distance running to set a meeting record and world lead of 1:55.92 in the women’s 800m at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene on Saturday
On her debut at the distance, China’s Liang Rui won the women’s 50km race walk in a world record of 4:04:36 at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018.
The IAAF issues new Eligibility Regulations for Female Classification (Athlete with Differences of Sexual Development) for events from 400m to the mile, including 400m, hurdles races, 800m, 1500m, one mile races and combined events over the same distances.
With two weeks to go until the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018, the provisional entry lists have been published.
IAAF World champions Hellen Onsando Obiri and Elijah Manangoi led Kenyan 1-2 finishes in their respective events on the last day of track and field competition at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Saturday
It’s less than a month to go until the start of the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Taicang 2018, to be staged from 5-6 May in the eastern Chinese city.
A total prize purse of US$245,000 is on offer at the IAAF/Trinidad Alfonso World Half Marathon Championships Valencia 2018 on Saturday 24 March.
Ethiopia’s Samuel Tefera won his country’s fourth gold medal of the championships in just his fourth ever indoor race, kicking hard in the latter stages of a highly tactical 1500m to deny Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski and Morocco’s 2012 champion Abdelaati Iguider.
Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha successfully defended his 3000m title with a powerful display of front running over the final kilometre of a tactical final on the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
Burundi’s defending champion Francine Niyonsaba set a world-leading 1:58.31 to take the 800m title following a titanic tussle with the USA’s 2016 silver medallist Ajee’ Wilson on the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018.
Murielle Ahoure blasted out of her blocks to lead compatriot Marie-Josee Ta Lou to an Ivory Coast 1-2 in a historic gun-to-tape victory in the women’s 60m at the IAAF world indoor championships on Friday.
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba stormed to her fourth successive world indoor title, and third successive in the women’s 3000m at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham last night.
Six World Indoor Championships medals will be reallocated during ceremonies at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on Friday and Saturday 2-3 March.
IAAF Heritage sets out to preserve the legacy of Athletics, its heroes & heroines, their artefacts, and the documents, video & photographs that portray them and in turn engage with and inspire the stars and fans of the present and future.
The IAAF Doping Review Board has agreed to allow Russian athletes Maksim Afonin and Anna Krylova to compete in international competition as neutral athletes in 2018.
Genzebe Dibaba headlines the Ethiopian team to the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, UK, and will compete in the women’s 1500m and 3000m from 1-4 March.
The 2018 IAAF World Indoor Tour, a series of the six finest indoor meetings on the planet, kicks off one week from today with the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on Saturday 3 February.
Leeds Beckett University, in cooperation with the IAAF, will carry out the biggest biomechanics research project ever conducted in athletics during next month’s IAAF World Championships London 2017.
Ethiopia’s Melese Nberet delivered a late kick to take gold in a world U18 lead of 1:47.12 at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi 2017 on Saturday.
ASICS and the IAAF have announce a new multiple-year partnership with ASICS becoming the latest addition to the prestigious group of Official IAAF Partners.
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2016, held at Sporting Monte Carlo
The first four IAAF Diamond League meetings of 2016 have now been held, meaning every Diamond Race discipline has been contested at least once.
Fantasy Diamond Race returns for 2016 – IAAF Diamond League as World champions Allyson Felix, Christian Taylor, Dafne Schippers and Almaz Ayana are set to compete in Doha on 6 May.
The IAAF Diamond League has introduced a new points format for the 2016 season with 1st – 10 points, 2nd – 6 points, 3rd – 4 points, 4th – 3 points, 5th – 2 points, and 6th – 1 point.
IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 delivers a great show, with sell-out sessions and a combined attendance figure of nearly 40,000.
Francine Niyonsaba won the women’s 800m gold in a world-leading national indoor record of 2:00.01 for Burundi on final day at Portland 2016 – IAAF World Indoor Championships.
A total of US$2,464,000 is on offer from the IAAF as prize money at this week’s IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 this weekend.
Kenyan athletes won every available title at the 4th edition of the African Cross Country Championship in Yaoundé, Cameroon on Saturday 12 March, 2016.
The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Tour will get underway in just over a week with the Karlsruhe indoor meeting in Germany set to raise the curtain on this new series on Saturday 6 February.
National record-holders Anaso Jobodwana and Henricho Bruintjies will feature on South Africa’s team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.