The Latest Breaking News from World Athletics

It took three days by car for high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh to escape from Ukraine

British athlete says he is ‘absolutely devastated’ as Michael Johnson criticises World Athletics over problems

World Athletics president Seb Coe promises lessons will be learned after tens of athletes are denied entry to the States

LOS ANGELES — The acting president of Ukraine's track and field federation logged into the Zoom meeting from his olive-green tent near the front lines, the country's yellow and blue flag in the background.

Hundreds of athletes, mostly Africans, have faced visa delays in getting to the US to participate in the event.

The 2025 World Athletics Championships will return to Tokyo, the sport's global governing body announced Thursday. The World Athletics Council confirmed that Tokyo would stage the championships for the second time after beating out competition from Kenya, Poland and Singapore, AFP said. It means Tokyo's Olympic Stadium will get the…

The world’s best athletes are heading for a town with a population of 170,000 where track and field still reigns supreme

EUGENE, Oregon: Organisers of the World Athletics Championships were desperately trying to clear a visa issuing logjam that threatened to prevent around 100 athletes, coaches and officials from entering the United States for the competition, which starts on Friday.

The leader of global track and field said it would have been “inconceivable” to have allowed Russians into this week’s world championships given the country’s war against Ukraine

The decision comes on the eve of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene

SAN DIEGO — Viktor Bryzhin and Olga Vladykina won Olympic track gold medals for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea. Bryzhin was on the 4x100-meter relay team. Vladykina won the individual 400 meters and got the baton in the anchor leg of the 4x400…