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In 300 days’ time, the world’s best distance athletes will descend on New South Wales in Australia for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 2021 on 20 March.

When Sandor Szabo took to the start line at the 2013 World Mountain Running Championships, he was most likely the least experienced runner at the discipline.

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

Norwegian superstar Karsten Warholm has said that he would happily have shared his 2019 Diamond League title with US rival Rai Benjamin.

Transform your home into an athletics-themed escape room adventure.

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

On 25 May 1985, the IAAF Mobil Grand Prix, the world’s first professional global track and field circuit, administered by and operating with the authorisation of the then ‘International Amateur Athletic Federation’, today’s World Athletics, began in San Jose, California with the Bruce Jenner Classic.

All finals from the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 are now available on the World Athletics YouTube channel.

Double European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen took nine seconds off the Norwegian 5km road record on Wednesday (20), clocking 13:28 in a low-key race in Stavanger.

Athletics is not just a sport of many disciplines; the universal reach of track and field means it is also a sport of many languages.

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

Wayde van Niekerk was nervous. For an athlete of his calibre, an unofficial 100m race on grass in mid-February should have been a formality. A routine rust-buster. A glorified training session.