World pole vault record-holder Renaud Lavillenie suffers shock defeat to Canadian in Beijing
This week s IAAF World Championships has been full of surprises so far and the theme continued in the pole vault when one of the biggest names in athletics was...

European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen met with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach ahead of the IAAF World Championships.

 

With two weeks to go until the European Week of Sport (EWOS), 73 road races in 27 countries have registered for the event.

Russia’s defending long jump champion Aleksandr Menkov showed nerves of steel to reach Tuesday’s final with a last round 8.08m at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing this morning.

It was far from a straightforward qualification round in the men s long jump.

In a surprisingly short qualification session for the women s pole vault and mercifully so given that was it was played out in the glare of the hot morning sun a decision was made to take the 14 women who had cleared 4.55m into Wednesday night s f...

We did not witness the same blistering times in the women s 400m heats on Monday as we saw in the opening round of yesterday s men s equivalent, but there was still enough to suggest that we should be set for a glorious crescendo in Thursday s final.

Qualifying for the field events is like a visit to the dentist. You want it all to be quick and painless, but so often it isn t.

When Joe Kovacs entered the Bird s Nest Stadium last night, shortly before winning his first world title in the men s shot put, his mind couldn t help but wander to the past.