A 10-athlete shortlist for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award has been announced - headlined by Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser, who both set new world records in 2021.

A plot to kill world bronze medallist Agnes Tirop could have been hatched during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after it was found that most of her property had changed ownership while she was competing in the Japanese capital.

Agnes Tirop’s husband has appeared in court in Kenya after allegedly murdering the world record holder.

The five-person shortlist of nominees for the Female and Male World Athlete of the Year Awards will be announced later this week.

Boston Athletic Association's (BAA) chief executive Tom Grilk has revealed that 93 per cent of runners at last weekend's Boston Marathon were fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Kenya's Elisha Rotich set a new Paris Marathon record as he finished in 2 hours 4min 21sec to win the race in the French capital.

The Wuhan Marathon is set to return next weekend in China, featuring 10,000 runners in the 42.195-kilometre event and approximately 26,000 across the three races overall.

Sifan Hassan from The Netherlands and Norway’s Karsten Warholm have been crowned the 2021 European Athletes of the Year at the Golden Tracks awards ceremony which was held in Lausanne in Switzerland.

Britain's Charlotte Arter triumphed in the first World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold event of the year as she followed up her 2019 victory in the women's race in Cardiff.

After the 2020 meet was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions, the World Athletics Cross Country Tour begins again in Cardiff, with Britain's Charlotte Arter looking to repeat her victory from 2019.

The husband of two-time world bronze medallist Agnes Tirop has been arrested in connection with the athlete’s death, Kenyan police have confirmed.

Dobromir Karamarinov, newly elected President of European Athletics, has said an agreement has been signed and paid for guaranteeing the 2023 European Games in Poland will have "the top athletes" competing.

Age Group World Championships, inaugurally held within this year’s London Marathon, will return to the same venue for a second edition next year.

Kenyan police have claimed they are closing in on the murderer of world 10 kilometres record-holder Agnes Tirop, who was found murdered yesterday.