Nigeria confirmed its interest in hosting the 2025 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships as the African edition closed with victories for Beatrice Chepkoech and Caster Semenya in Asaba.

Caster Semenya, South Africa’s world and Olympic 800 metres champion, broke the 18-year-old national record as she took gold in the 400m on the third day of the ill-fated 21st African Athletics Championships in Asaba in Nigeria.

The 21st edition of the African Athletics Championships is due to get underway tomorrow at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba in Nigeria.

The United States based Human Rights Watch (HRW) have become the latest group to publicly condemn the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) over their new female classification rule, which could see the double Olympic champion over 800 metres Caster Semenya banned from competing.

Should Caster Semenya, the triple world and double Olympic champion over 800 metres, be allowed to compete against other women, despite having abnormally high testosterone levels that give her an advantage?

Top DJ Martin Solveig will be in residence at the Louis II Stadium tomorrow night as the IAAF Diamond League circuit reaches Monaco - and if the sets he plans to mix are anything like as compelling as the mix of top class action on show in the Principality, he will be doing very well.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have once again been forced to defend its proposed new rules on female classification - widely believed to be aimed at Olympic and World Championship 800 metres gold medallist Caster Semenya - after the influential United States-based Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) claimed it “undermines the spirit of sport”.

World 60 metres record holder Christian Coleman, back after a month's injury lay-off, re-staked his claim to be considered the fastest new sprinter on the block as he won the men's 100m in Rabat in a season's best time of 9.98sec that equalled the meeting record.

Christian Coleman, the world's fastest man over 60 metres, returns to action tomorrow at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting in Rabat - and faces the three fellow Americans heading the season's world 100m lists.

Birhanu Balew of Bahrain won the men's 5,000 metres here at the eighth International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting of the season in a personal best and 2018 world-leading time of 13min 01.09sec.

Qatar's 400 metres hurdles phenomenon Abderrahman Samba announced here today that tomorrow's International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meeting at the Stade de la Pontaise will be his last of the season.

Abderrahman Samba produced yet another extraordinary exhibition of 400 metre hurdling at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here as he became only the second man to run the event in under 47 seconds. 

Sebastian Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has met with Athletics South Africa counterpart Aleck Skhosana to defend their new female classification rule, which could see double Olympic 800 metres champion and triple world champion Caster Semenya banned from competing.

World and Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will challenge a female classification rule imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), her lawyers said today.

Not even the cacophonous Bislett Stadium home crowd could prevent Norway's world 400 metre hurdles champion Karsten Warholm losing a second successive race to the Qatari who leads this year's world rankings, Aderrahman Samba.