From next season, athletes will earn points in the first 12 IAAF Diamond League meetings to qualify for two final meetings where $100,000 will be at stake in each of the 32 Diamond Disciplines, including $50,000 for each winner.
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
Rio 2016 Olympic Games marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge, from Kenya, triumphs at the 2016 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in 59:44
Organisers of the Sfax International Marathon, Sports Med Events (SME) have announced the signing of a partnership with SOPAL as title sponsor ahead of the start of the 5th edition of the event.
South Africa finished eighth on the medals table at the 22nd edition of the IAAF World Masters Athletics Championships in Perth, Australia.
Aleck Skhosana and his entire Athletics South Africa (ASA) board have been re-elected for another four-year term at the federation’s quadrennial general meeting in Kempton Park on Saturday 22 October, 2016.
Athletics South Africa held a successful and peaceful Quadrennial General Meeting at the Garden Court Hotel, OR Tambo Hotel in Kempton Park, Johannesburg on Saturday.
South Africans, Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya are among the seven African athletes that have been shortlisted for the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award.
Lausanne 2020 preparations for the 3rd Winter Youth Olympic Games have been deemed well under way by the IOC after just over a year since the city was chosen as host.
With his 2:03:03 win at the 2016 BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, Kenenisa Bekele proved himself once and for all that he is a world class performer at the distance.
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele wins a thrilling duel with Wilson Kipsang but misses the world record by just six seconds, with a time of 2:03:03, at the 2016 BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday.
David Manja and Kesa Molotsane crowned national champions with victories in the Senior Men’s and Women’s 10km races at the SA Cross Country Championships in George.
Kenya will host the last edition of the IAAF World U18 Championships after the IAAF Council decided to discontinue the youth championships after the 2017 edition in Nairobi.
Photo gallery of African athletes on Day 10 of Athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 21, 2016.
Photo gallery of African athletes on Day 8 and 9 of Athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 19 and 20, 2016.
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s marathon gold on the final day of competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics to maintain his dominance in the grueling distance event by winning in 2:08:44.
Caster Semenya broke the national 800m record to earn gold at the Rio Olympics on Saturday tearing down the home straight to secure the South Africa’s 4th track and field medal at the games.
Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot shocks World 10,000m record-holder Almaz Ayana to win her first Olympic gold medal in the Women’s 5000m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Photo gallery of African star athletes on day six and seven of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 17 and 18, 2016
South Africa’s Sunette Viljoen produced the performance of her career on Thursday night to secure the silver medal in the women’s Javelin throw event at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Photo gallery of African star athletes on day four and five of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 15 and 16, 2016.
Photo gallery of African athletes on day 3 of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 14, 2016.
Photo gallery of African star athletes on day two of athletics competition at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 13, 2016.
Conseslus Kipruto ran an Olympic record of 8:03.28 to win Kenya’s ninth consecutive gold medal in the men’s 3000m steeplechase on day 6 of athletics at Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Wednesday.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won the Olympic women’s 1500m gold leaving Ethiopia’s world record holder Genzebe Dibaba trailing in her wake on Tuesday night.
Nigerian women will upgrade to the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 4x100m relay silver medal after the IOC stripped the Russian team of gold medal.
Photo gallery of African star athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games – Rio 2016 – from the Olympic stadium in Rio, Brazil on August 12, 2016.
Kenya’s David Rudisha stormed to victory in 1:42.15 to retain his Olympic men’s 800m title ahead of Algeria’s Taoufik Mahkloufi at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson’s world record to win the men’s 400m gold at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in a stunning time of 43.03 on Sunday.
London marathon winner, Jemima Sumgong, became the first Kenyan woman to win the Olympics marathon title, clocking 2:24:04 for gold, at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
South African Luvo Manyonga soared to a lifetime best jump of 8.37m on Saturday to bag South Africa’s first track and field medal on day two of the athletics competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed the world record to win the 10,000m at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, clocking 29:17.45 to win the first athletics gold medal of the Games.
Botswana’s 800m runner Nijel Amos vows to deliver yet another medal for his country when the Athletics competition starts on Friday at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Kenyan Wilson Kipsang and Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele to duel on Berlin’s world record course at the 2016 BMW Berlin-Marathon on 25 September.