Some athletic records seem untouchable. Sebastian Coe’s British 800-metre record of 1:41.73, set in 1981, is one of them. For ...

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

Seven world records by five athletes hailing from four different continents in the space of only eight days. The reawakening of athletics following the Olympic summer has been spectacular, culminating ...

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

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships ...

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 ...

Ruth Chepngetich's 2hr 9min 56sec run in Chicago in October 2024 remains the legal ‍world record ​even though she was handed ...

The half marathon world record now begins with a 56. Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda took a whopping 48 seconds off the previous record Sunday morning at the 2025 Barcelona Half Marathon, clocking 56:42 to ...

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 ...

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. Olivier Gers was responding to criticism ...