Sebastian Coe's 1981 British 800-meter record of 1:41.73 is facing a potential challenge. World Athletics President Coe has ...

USA’s Yared Nuguse and Grant Fisher will return to the scene of their respective mile and 3000m short track world records ...

World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Kerry O’Brien, one of Australia’s leading distance runners of the 1960s and ...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Mondo Duplantis were named the World Athletics Athletes of the Year after record-breaking performances in 2025. McLaughlin-Levrone won the award for a second time (2022) ...

The radical plan to wipe out athletics world records set before 2005 was not a cowardly proposal, a senior member of the sports governing body said Thursday. Paula Radcliffe ran a world record time of ...

The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo continues after another thrilling day of action in Japan. Tuesday provided another star-studded schedule, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shattering the ...

Armand Duplantis broke the men's pole vault world at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships on Monday - but how does technology help him beat his rivals? The 25-year-old smashed the world record for ...

Javier Sotomayor explains why his 2.45m high jump world record still stands after 32 years, his technique, injuries, mindset ...

May 18 (Reuters) - Italy's Massimo Stano broke the men's 35-km race walk world record with a time of two hours, 20 minutes and 43 seconds at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady ...

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis has broken the men’s pole vault world record for a 13th time. Duplantis, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, cleared 6.29 meters (20 feet, 7 1/2 inches) at a meet in Budapest, ...

The World Athletics Championships begin today in Tokyo with track and field’s finest competing for 147 medals across 49 events. The spotlight will be on Hodgkinson in particular, who has been backed ...