Kaliese Spencer confirmed her status as currently the world s No.1 400m hurdler with another emphatic win at the Sainsbury s Birmingham Grand Prix, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, while Dawn Harper-Nelson ran clean over all 10 barriers to win a thrilli...

The rich kaleidoscope and global reach of the sport was amply illustrated on an action-packed final day of athletics at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Stadium on Monday (25) as athletes from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa all struc...

The 2004 Olympic and 2011 world hammer champion Koji Murofushi is still among the world s elite throwers at the age of 39 and earlier this year he won a record 20th Japanese title.

At first glance it looks like just another throw-away comment, the kind made by athletes all over the world immediately after a race an easy line tailor-made to please the local organisers, the local crowd and the host nation.

At the age of four, Antti Ruuskanen gazed at the television in his parents home entranced by the sight of Tapio Korjus launching his javelin to win the men s gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. To complete the small boy s day, another Finn, Seppo R...

The provisional entry lists are now available for the 13th meeting and first final of the 2014 season of the IAAF Diamond League in Zurich on 28 August.