In a span of about 25 minutes, two world indoor (short track) records went down at the 31st edition of the New Balance Indoor ...

Toshikazu Yamanishi clocked a world record of 1:20:34* at the Japanese Half Marathon Race Walking Championships ...

Swedish-American pole vault sensation Armand Duplantis continues to dominate the sport, adding Olympic gold medals and ...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Khaleb McRae ran 400m in 44.52 seconds to break the indoor world record on Friday, 0.05 seconds faster than fellow American Kerron Clement's mark set 21 years ago. McRae, 25, shaved ...

Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson got her 2026 campaign underway with a stunning world-leading run of 1:56.33 to win her 800m heat at the UK Indoor Championships in Birmingham on Saturday (14).

The radical plan to wipe out athletics world records set before 2005 was not a cowardly proposal, a senior member of the sports governing body said Thursday. Olivier Gers was responding to criticism ...

The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo continues after another thrilling day of action in Japan. Tuesday provided another star-studded schedule, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shattering the ...

MONACO (AP) — Athletics Integrity Unit says marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepng’etich banned 3 years for doping violation.

The world’s top road runners and race walkers are nominated for World Athletics Out of Stadium Athlete of the Year awards for women and men. The women’s nominees: Ethiopian Tigst Assefa (London ...

A 16-year-old from New Zealand has set a new world record for the fastest mile run by an under–18 athlete. Sam Ruthe crossed the finish line in an extraordinary 3:48.88 minutes at the John Thomas ...

On Oct. 6, 1985, at the height of East Germany’s era of systematic state-sponsored doping, the country’s most celebrated sprinter delivered her most astonishing performance. Marita Koch demolished a ...

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Japan’s Toshikazu Yamanishi set a men’s half marathon race walk world record on Sunday, clocking 1:20:34 at the Japanese Half Marathon Race Walking Championships in Kobe. His time ...