Birmingham’s re-built Alexander Stadium stands ready to usher in a new era of big-time athletics tomorrow when it hosts the second Diamond League meeting of the season, before hosting track and field at the Commonwealth Games later this year.

Olympic silver medallists Orlando Ortega and Luguelín Santos headline the line-up for the Ibero-American Athletics Championships, with the best athletes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations being joined by guests Ukraine at the competition.

Scottish marathon runner Steph Davis is set to feature at her first Commonwealth Games, having secured her place in the women's event at Birmingham 2022.

Australia has named all three of its Olympics medallists from Tokyo 2020 among the first selections in its athletics team for this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Normal service was resumed in Doha today as the men’s pole vault, held over because of high winds during yesterday’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season, duly took place in the lofty environs of the Aspire Dome - and Armand Duplantis won.

An ill-wind that blew the men’s pole vault event out of the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha did the men’s javelin throwers, and Anderson Peters in particular, good tonight as Grenada’s world champion won with a last throw of 93.07 metres to go fifth on the all-time list.

Nine months after their decision to share the Tokyo 2020 high jump title created one of the most beautiful moments in Olympic history, friends and rivals Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim converge again for tomorrow’s opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha.

A Ukraine team is set to compete at the Ibero-American Athletics Championships in Alicante, invited by organisers following the invasion of the country by Russia.

New meeting director Kim Gevaert has promised spectators will enjoy an assault on five-long distance world records at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels on September 2. 

The Diamond League final will be held alternately in Brussels and Zürich between 2024 and 2027.

World Athletics plans to maximise the nationwide appeal of this summer’s World Championships in Oregon have moved a stage nearer to completion following a meeting in New York between the federation’s chief executive, Jon Ridgeon, and the broadcaster which has rights to the event.

Switzerland's Simon Ehammer and Germany’s Sophie Weissenberg preserved their overnight leads to triumph at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold leg in Ratingen.

World Athletics chief executive Jon Ridgeon has praised the attitude and support of the Diamond League’s title sponsor, Wanda, following the announcement that, for the second year running, the Shanghai and Shenzhen meetings would not go ahead because of COVID-19 concerns.

Christian Coleman marked his first 100 metres since winning the world title in 2019 with victory at the Golden Grand Prix today in Tokyo’s National Olympic Stadium, even though he looked less than comfortable in clocking 10.09 seconds.