A dozen recently established world champions are due to compete in Chorzow, in Silesia, tomorrow in the first Diamond League meeting to be held on Polish soil.

Runners knocked out in the opening round of track events from 200 to 1500 metres at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will get another opportunity to continue in the competition after World Athletics announced they are to introduce a repechage round.

Victory in the final event of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, the women’s 4x400 metres relay, strengthened the home domination of a medals table involving more countries than ever before at an event described by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe as "the greatest show on earth".

"Making it big in America" has been an obsession of British pop groups and singers ever since The Beatles became a cultural phenomenon across the Atlantic in the 1960s.

A new circuit of athletics meetings designed to help popularise the sport in the build-up to the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles is set to be launched next year in the United States.

Renowned American sprint coach Rana Reider, who is under investigation for sexual misconduct, has been cautioned by police in Eugene after gaining unauthorised access to the athlete warm-up area at the World Athletics Championships.

After a long campaign, descendants and supporters of  Jim Thorpe are celebrating an International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to finally recognise him as the sole gold medallist of the 1912 Olympics in pentathlon and decathlon.

The World Athletics Council is set to discuss the ongoing suspension of the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) at its meeting prior to the World Championships in Eugene.

Russian athletes have been banned from competing at the upcoming Oregon22 World Athletics Championships.

Venezuela’s triple jump Olympic champion and world record-holder Yulimar Rojas will be denied the opportunity of chasing a World Championships double in Eugene next month after her qualifying mark for the long jump was declared ineligible due to illegal shoes.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced another premium event to be cancelled in China.

The first group of Ukrainian athletes and coaches, assisted by more than $220,000 (£181,000/€210,000) provided through the sport’s world governing body, has set off to the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships which start on July 15.

Seiko Holdings Corporation has been named the official timer for the Oregon22 World Athletics Championships, set to take place at the revered Hayward Field in Eugene next month.

FIFA and World Athletics are set to review their eligibility policies following the International Swimming Federation's (FINA) landmark decision here to severely restrict the participation of transgender athletes in women's events.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is to meet with World Athletics officials tomorrow as the Japanese capital's bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships steps up a gear.