The Latest Breaking News from World Athletics

UKA wants the women’s category to be lawfully reserved for female-born competitors

World Athletics has proposed to continue to allow transgender women to compete in female international track and field events.

The global organisation is consulting with member federations over a new policy.

Sebastian Coe promised to be ‘guided by science’ when it comes to sport’s most divisive issue. But World Athletics’ solution is clearly designed to protect it from legal action too

Coe has been World Athletics president since 2015

World Athletics is set to keep the door open for transgender women to compete at the highest level under a ‘preferred option’ proposal to be voted on in March

World Athletics have reportedly sent a 'confidential consultation' to member federations with the preferred option to tighten rules around trans women athletes but not ban them from female events

Women's course record more vulnerable than the men's, says race commentator Hutchings

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