Athletics

As the countdown to the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics gathers pace, Team GB is quietly raising its ambitions. British officials are now targeting between four and eight medals, a range that, …

Fauja Singh, the Indian-born British distance runner widely believed to be the world’s oldest marathoner, has died at the age of 114 following a road accident in Punjab’s Jalandhar district. …

The funeral for Kelvin Kiptum, the Kenyan world marathon record-holder tragically killed in a car accident earlier this month, has been rescheduled to Friday, according to the country’s athletics federation. …

Ethiopian Tigist Assefa smashed the women’s marathon world record by more than two minutes in Berlin on Sunday as Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s race for a record fifth …

Sha’Carri Richardson finally delivered on three years of promise when the American overcame the challenge of being stuck out in lane nine by delivering a late surge to win world …

World 100 metres hurdles champion, Oluwatobi Amusan, has expressed her delight at being cleared of doping violations by an independent Tribunal on Thursday. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) had provisionally …

Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya on Tuesday won her case against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled she was the victim of discrimination. South African …

Kenya’s Titus Ekiru, sixth fastest man in history in the marathon, is facing a potential 10-year ban after receiving a provisional suspension for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said …

World champion and world record holder Tobi Amusan showed her class on Sunday at the 2023 Diamond League athletics series in Stockholm, Sweden, to win the 100m hurdles in a …

US sprinter Jim Hines, the first man to break the 10-second barrier for 100m, has died at the age of 76, World Athletics said on Monday. At the 1968 US …