It was 40 years ago today the first World Athletics Championships concluded in Helsinki with a spectacular glut of finals - many of which are frequently referenced to this day.

Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland, who had finished fourth in 1976 Olympic 1500 metres final and the 1980 Olympic

established an official women's race.As women began to feature increasingly on the marathon scene during

ImagesThe day after Waitz’s win in London Joan Benoit of the US, who would go on to win the inaugural Olympic

title on home soil the following year, established a new fastest time for the women's marathon when

that billing with victory in 2:28:09, having sufficient time to complete a victory lap of the 1952 Olympic

A six-member Athlete Refugee Team has been announced for the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships.

the athletics world when he clocked 2hour 10min 55sec to qualify for Tokyo 2020 at the Hula Lake Park Marathon

in Israel.He served as the co-flag bearer at the delayed Olympic Games in the Japanese capital, where

British Triathlon has launched an investigation after competitors at the World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) complained of sickness after taking part in the swimming phase at the Roker Pier, Sunderland, days after a Paris 2024 test event on River Seine was cancelled due to pollution.

have already spent €1.4 billion (£1.2 billion/$1.5 billion) in cleaning the river, seen as a major Olympic

legacy.Olympic triathlon competitions are set to begin on July 30 2024 and continue on July 31 and August 5.Olympic

marathon swimming is scheduled on August 8 and August 9.

The triathlon test event for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, scheduled for August 17 to 20, is set to cause

read a City of Paris statement.Pont Alexandre III is scheduled to host triathlon, Para triathlon and marathon

Brazil’s Thiago Braz, who won the men’s pole vault title at his home Rio 2016 Olympics, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after testing positive for the banned substance ostarine.

effects to testosterone.Braz, who won the world junior title in 2012, set what remains as a national and Olympic

champion and record holder Renaud Lavillenie to second place.Four years later in Tokyo he claimed a second Olympic

by one place at last summer’s World Athletics Championships in Oregon.Braz, who set a national and Olympic

Eticha Jimma, 35, who ran a personal best of 2hr 22min 52sec to finish second in last year’s Paris Marathon

Ethiopia's Fantu Eticha Jimma, second in the women's race at last year's Paris Marathon, has been banned

World Athletics partner Asics has become official sponsor of the Athlete Refugee Team (ART) in a deal due to run until 2026.

Tachlowini Gabriyesos, 16th in the Tokyo 2020 men's marathon, is among those who will benefit from the

support its work with refugees.The team made its first competitive appearance as part of the Refugee Olympic

team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero."

2022 World Athletics Championships, the 2017 World U19 Championships, the 2018 and 2021 World Half Marathon

Athletes from Kenya will be donning new kits for Paris 2024 after the honeycomb pattern controversy at Tokyo 2020.

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) secretary general Francis Mutuku announced that sports

country's national flag.However, the kit did receive the backing of NOC-K officials and athletes, with Olympic

marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge saying it resonated well with the new generation.The new kit is expected

in Africa on dollar value," Mutuku said, as quoted by Nation.Mutuku also said those participating in Olympic

to economic pressures and delays in preparations.Kenya has won a total of 113 medals at the Summer Olympic

The twice postponed Francophone Games are at last set to open today in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid heightened security in the host city.

in the Ivory Coast hosted the 2017 event.Back in February, Association of Francophone National Olympic

bronze medal in the 200m in a race where Italy’s Livio Berutti broke the world record.Abebe Bikila's marathon

They were held in the best Olympic imbued of the rural jovial spirit pervading in the tropics, where

everything is of relative importance," declared the Olympic Review."

been put in charge of a new IOC "commission for aid to new countries", a forerunner of Olympic

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has held a meeting with the leadership of

the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) after inviting them to the organisation’s headquarters

well as speak with various heads of departments and the organisation’s leadership.Tergat, a former marathon

world record holder and double Olympic silver medallist, was first elected as the head of the NOC-K

in 2017.The NOC-K executives were invited to the International Olympic body headquarters to familiarize

Noah Lyles, who will seek a third consecutive world 200 metres title this summer, warmed up in ideal fashion by setting the world’s fastest time of the year, 19.47sec, in winning at the London Diamond League meeting.

In front of a sell-out 50,000 crowd in the stadium that hosted the London 2012 Olympic athletics, Femke

setting personal bests as Kenya’s Commonwealth champion Beatrice Chebet finished second in 14:12.92 and Olympic

The Netherlands - whose last competitive outing in the British capital involved winning the London Marathon

his best of 23.07m.The concluding women’s 800m appeared to have been set up as a finale for Britain's Olympic

Norway, second in 3:30.58, and home runner Neil Gourley, third in a personal best of 3:30.60.Joint Olympic

An Olympic Torch, one of only 33 manufactured for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, has sold for $187,500

Technique d'Equipement et de Fournitures Industrielle, this Torch was instrumental in lighting the Olympic

French President Charles de Gaulle along with 500 invited guests of honour, including International Olympic

over Mount Olympus to Athens before being flown to Paris where it was met by Jean Vuarnet, the 1960 Olympic

downhill gold medallist.He handed it on to the first Torchbearer Alain Mimoun, the 1956 Olympic marathon

Torch, from Sapporo 1972, sold for $18,750 (£14,600/€16,850).Olympic Torches from a number of other

who perform well at international competitions are to be awarded cash prize by the Lesotho National Olympic

M45,000 (£1,950/$2,520/€2,250).Makatisi bagged the silver medal after completing the women's beach marathon

African Beach Games ©LNOC"Let's congratulate them for their endeavour preparation for upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic

LNOC read.The African Beach Games was supposed to be a warm-up event for the Association of National Olympic

Bali.Originally scheduled to be held from August 5 to 12, it was cancelled on July 4.The Indonesian Olympic

Paris 2024 Olympic works delivery company Solideo has taken on five new projects prior to the Games scheduled

half of the €800,000 (£693,500/$895,000) total required for the project.Following the approval of the marathon

out by Solideo although a price has not been placed on this.International Cycling Union and French Olympic

Germany's Leonie Beck and Florian Wellbrock have both completed the long distance open water double at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka.

kilometres in 59min 31.70sec, from Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands who clocked 59:32.70 and Tokyo Olympic

In the men’s race, Olympic gold medallist Florian Wellbrock also completed the double.He won in 53:58.00

Kenya has set itself a target of broadening the number of sports it competes in the Olympic Games at

country is known for its distance runners, which are among the strongest in the world, but the National Olympic

We will have missed the train by a wide margin if we wait until 2030 to begin planning for the 2032 Olympic

circumstances, such as Alexandra Ndolo, the first Kenyan scheduled to compete in fencing at the 2024 Olympic

Boxer Robert Wangila is the only Kenyan to win an Olympic gold medal in a sport other than athletics

gold medallists, Beijing 2008 1500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop and Rio 2016 marathon winner Jemima