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Assefa breaks women-only world marathon record with 2:15:50 in London
Image: Getty Images Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa smashed the women-only world record by 26 seconds at the TCS London Marathon, running...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 272 min read


Ngetich breaks women-only world 10km record with 29:27 in Herzogenaurach
Image: Sportmedia.es , courtesy of World Athletics Agnes Ngetich became the first athlete to break 30 minutes in a women-only 10km,...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 261 min read


Entry lists published for World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25
Image: Francesca Grana for World Athletics Athletes entered for the World Athletics Relays Guangzhou 25 have, between them, amassed 32...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 251 min read


2025 edition of World Road Running Championships cancelled
Image: SCC Events Following the decision last month to move the 2025 World Road Running Championships from San Diego, World Athletics has...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 251 min read


World Athletics announces Japan Airlines as official supplier for WCH Tokyo 25
Image: Courtesy of World Athletics Japan Airlines (JAL) has been announced as an official World Athletics supplier for the World...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 232 min read


100 days: Tebogo and Mahuchikh to star at season launch in Xiamen
Image: Courtsey of Wanda Diamond League Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo and high jump world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh will...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 222 min read


Duplantis and Holloway return to Xiamen for season opener
Image: Courtesy of Wanda Diamond League Swedish pole vault star Mondo Duplantis and US hurdles ace Grant Holloway will join a growing...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 222 min read


Yaroslava Mahuchikh: “The Diamond League is like a World Championships”
Image: Courtesy of Wanda Diamond League Ahead of her Wanda Diamond League opener in Xiamen on April, Ukrainian high jump star Yaroslava...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 222 min read


Olympic Movement mourns death of His Holiness Pope Francis
Image: Vatican Media International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach today expressed the sporting world’s shared sense of...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 222 min read


Clash of the titans in Eugene mile
Image: Logan Hannigan, courtesy of Wanda Diamond League Three of the world’s biggest middle-distance stars will lock horns at one of...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 172 min read


Global champions face off in Doha steeplechase
Image: Courtesy of Wanda Diamond League All three Olympic medallists will be reunited in the women’s steeplechase at the third Wanda...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 172 min read


Alekna shatters discus world record with 75.56m in Ramona
Image: Laszlo Zsigmond for World Athletics Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna improved his own discus world record by more than a metre with a...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 142 min read


LA28 event programme marks strong commitment towards innovation and gender equality
Image: IOC The event programme and athlete quotas for the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) have been approved by the Executive Board...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 103 min read


World Athletics aims to create world’s biggest kids’ relay with Relay Around the World Challenge
Image: Christel Saneh for World Athletics • Challenge aims to be biggest Kids’ Athletics activation to date with target of 500,000 kids...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 63 min read


Tesfay pulverizes course record, Dida wins the GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON
Image: SCC EVENTS/Jean-Marc Wiesner Fotyen Tesfay has pulverized the course record of the GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON. The Ethiopian...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 62 min read


Content Creator Programme returns for 2025
Image: World Athletics World Athletics will once again run its Content Creator Programme in 2025, building on the success of the...

Sifiso Ngobese
Apr 41 min read


Battocletti and Kwizera win 2024-2025 World Athletics Cross Country Tour
Image: Organisers, courtesy of World Athletics Italy’s Nadia Battocletti and Burundi’s Rodrigue Kwizera topped the standings at the end...

Sifiso Ngobese
Mar 282 min read


History-making WIC Nanjing 25 sets scene for Guangzhou and Tokyo
Image: Dan Vernon, courtesy of World Athletics The World Athletics Indoor Championships Nanjing 25 drew to a close on Sunday (23) after...

Sifiso Ngobese
Mar 254 min read


Ratified: world records for Fisher, Giles and Nuguse
Image: Josh Sawyer, courtesy of World Athletics Men’s indoor mile 3:46.63 Yared Nuguse (USA) New York, 8 February 2025 Men’s indoor 3000m...

Sifiso Ngobese
Mar 212 min read


Kirsty Coventry elected IOC President, the first female President in IOC history
Image: IOC/Greg Martin Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe was elected today as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC),...

Sifiso Ngobese
Mar 212 min read
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