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The five finalists for the Female World Athlete of the Year 2020 have been confirmed

The Wanda Diamond League has today released its provisional calendar for the 2021 season, which will see a return to a full schedule of 14 meetings culminating in a winner-takes-all season finale in Zürich.

World Athletics and NBC Sports Group are pleased to announce a ten-year media rights agreement that provides NBC Sports with exclusive multi-platform media rights to World Athletics Series events in the United States until the end of 2029.

The World Athletics Championships Oregon22, an unmissable event coming to the US for the first time

The 2021 World Mountain Running Association World Cup series will feature 16 races spread across eight countries with events taking place in USA, Poland, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France and Austria.

The five finalists for the Male World Athlete of the Year 2020 have been confirmed

World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Mexico’s 1984 Olympic 20km race walk champion and 1983 world champion Ernesto Canto died on Friday (20) at the age of 61 from pancreatic and liver cancer.

Brigid Kosgei and Ababel Yeshaneh have been added to the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon women's field

Legendary sprint stars Sanya Richards-Ross and Ato Boldon will host the virtual event on 5 December

Japan’s Eiki Takahashi took almost half a minute off the world best for the 10,000m race walk at the Juntendo University Long Distance meeting in Inzai on Saturday (14), winning in 37:25.21.

Many of the sport’s most prominent figures joined the Inspiring Women Leaders in Athletics global conference

Spanish athletics can trace its origins back to the late 1860s, when gymnastics clubs often organised athletics competitions as part of their activities. In the first two decades of the 20th century, a number of regional federations were formed and championships held. Consequently, it was a logical step that on 27 March 1920, after the fifth edition of the Spanish Cross Country Championships held earlier in the day, what is now the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation was founded in Bilbao.