Sifan Hassan produced a stupendous final lap in the women’s mile here to finish in 4min 12.33sec – thus breaking the 23-year-old world record of 4:12.56 held by Russia’s 1996 Olympic 800 metres and 1,500m champion Svetlana Masterkova.
Russian athletics coach Vladimir Kazarin has admitted breaching his lifetime ban from the sport and confirmed he had continued working with athletes after he was suspended in 2017.
As athletes train under sheer blue sky in warm and humid conditions before tomorrow's ninth stage of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League series, some will be aware of an additional responsibility.
Moroccan long-distance runner Abderrahmane Kachir has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for a violation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Anti-Doping Rules.
Former Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres champion Joyce Chepkirui is one of a further two Kenyan athletes to have been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Doping Review Board has granted its approval to the applications of 37 more Russian track and field athletes for them to be allowed to compete in global events as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) in 2019.
Noah Lyles trimmed 0.08 seconds off Usain Bolt’s meeting record at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League in Lausanne as he won the men's 200 metres in 19.50sec.
A mouthwatering battle over 5,000 metres awaits in the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League in Lausanne tomorrow.
European Athletics has announced that applications for its first European Race of the Year Award are now open.
Russian long-distance runner Ilyas Nurgaliyev has been banned for two years over violations of anti-doping regulations.
Elaine Thompson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are among the stars set to compete for Jamaica in athletics events at the Lima 2019 Pan American Games.
Salome Jerono Biwott has become the latest Kenyan athlete to be charged with an alleged doping offence by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
Caster Semenya came back, saw and re-conquered at the Prefontaine Classic meeting held at the temporary venue of Stanford, California today as she won by almost three seconds in the women’s 800 metres at the seventh International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meetings of the season.
Tunisia’s Wassim Mtarrab produced a world record throw on the final day of the Tunis World Para Athletics Grand Prix.
Caster Semenya is set for a return to the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League circuit in Stanford, California tomorrow after a Swiss court reportedly extended the suspension of their ruling concerning athletes with differences in sexual development.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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