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Here we continue to share stories and updates about how the athletics world is adjusting to and coping with the spread of Covid-19.

Here we continue to share stories and updates about how the athletics world is adjusting to and coping with the spread of Covid-19.

Francesco Puppi has been one of the more successful mountain runners of recent years, racing to gold at the 2017 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships, silver at the event last year and winning bronze in 2015 when he made his Italian national team debut. That global podium finish came just one season after Puppi tried the sport for the first time. With a strong ability to accelerate on ascents, he was "a natural".

The Wanda Diamond League Call Room lockdown series continues today (31) at 6pm GMT with its Rabat meeting edition, with special guests Marie-Josée Ta Lou of Ivory Coast, Botswana’s 800m superstar Nijel Amos and Nigerian sprinter/jumper Blessing Okagbare taking the virtual stage on the Diamond League's ​Facebook page​ and ​YouTube​ channel.

World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Bobby Morrow, winner of three gold medals for the USA at the 1956 Olympic Games, died on Saturday (30) at the age of 84.

For world javelin champion Kelsey-Lee Barber and her husband and coach, Mike, life under a Covid-19 lockdown in Australia can best be described as the same but different.

As part of the process of reinstatement of the Russian Federation (RusAF) the World Athletics Council resolved at its March 2020 meeting to appoint two international experts to participate in the work of the RusAF Reinstatement Commission and oversee the implementation RusAF’s reinstatement plan.

Two-time Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha underwent surgery in Eldoret, Kenya, today after sustaining a fracture in his ankle last week.

Have some crayons or coloured pencils? Then get to work colouring and getting to know some of our sport's biggest stars.

The original Wanda Diamond League calendar had us basking in the Italian sun this Thursday evening, as the world's top athletes descended on Naples for a slightly different edition of Rome's Golden Gala meeting.

Ryan Crouser has long been a handyman. Since hanging out in his grandfather’s work shed as a youngster, the Olympic shot put champion has had a keen interest in DIY and he recently called upon that passion to build his own shot circle.

In a ground-breaking deal, World Athletics and Pinsent Masons have reached an agreement for the global firm to become the sport’s first official supplier of legal services for the next four years.