The Latest Breaking News from World Athletics

Hodgkinson has tasted just one defeat over 800m so far in 2023, while Hughes broke 30-year-old British 100m and 200m records in the space of a month.

Britain’s preparations for the World Athletics Championships are facing more turbulence with Darren Campbell, the head of sprints and relays, no longer with the team

Sprinter who defected after the Tokyo Olympics has built a new life in Warsaw and won the right to run for Poland at this month’s world championships

Somali sprinter clocks 200m time for 100m at championship in China

UK Athletics’ chief selector has defended the organisation’s strict policy that will mean at least 19 athletes miss out on next month’s world championships

Furious British athletes have accused the national federation of ‘stealing’ their chance to compete at next month’s World Championships, with UK Athletics set to rip up their invitations

Organisers begin countdown confident France will come together despite recent raft of strikes and civil disobedience

Olympic athlete Caster Semenya has repeatedly come into conflict with competition rules set out by the athletics governing body, World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF). These rules require athletes like Semenya, who has what is known as a difference of sexual development (DSD), to reduce their blood testosterone level…

Podcasts are on the rise in Africa. The huge sector has been dominated by voices from outside the continent, but more African producers are now turning to the mic to tell their stories. Also the European Court of Human Rights finds that South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya was discriminated…

Caster Semenya has spoken out after the European Court of Human Rights ruled in her favour over rules regarding testosterone levels in female athletes

18-time Grand Slam winner had a one word response to Rapinoe’s claims that she was fueling transphobia