Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic and world medallist Deon Lendore has died at the age of 29 after being involved in a car accident in Texas in the United States.

Kenyans Nicholas Kimeli and Edinah Jebitok came away from the Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza in Elgoibar with victories on a wet and muddy day on the World Athletics Cross Country Tour.

Namibian teenage sprinter Christine Mboma has been voted the BBC African Sports Personality of the Year for 2021, becoming the first woman to win the accolade after a successful Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Performances by three athletes in 2021 have been officially recognised as the inaugural 50 kilometres world records by World Athletics.

Some of Kenya's most prominent distance runners are on the start list for the latest leg of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour in Elgoibar in Spain, with two world champions headlining the women's race.

Tokyo 2020 400 metres hurdles bronze medallist is to race at this year's European Championships in Munich, the Dutch athlete has admitted.

World Athletics has said it does not "anticipate any issues" at its World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, following an International Olympic Committee (IOC) warning that Serbia must not prevent athletes from certain other nations from competing at major events it hosts.

Ethiopian pair Ejegayehu Taye and Berihu Aregawi broke the women's and men's five kilometres world records respectively in Barcelona.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) will discuss its participation in the upcoming Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in February among other international competitions next year.

World Athletics has amended its rules to cap the thickness of track shoe soles at 20 millimetres.

World Athletics' Doping Review Board has updated its procedures for the applications of athletes from the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANAs) at international events.

Shenzhen has been confirmed as the second Chinese leg of the 2022 Diamond League calendar after Shanghai, with the country scheduled to host events on the circuit for the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Athletics Australia has appointed Peter Bromley chief executive on a permanent basis, having held the position in an interim capacity since April.

Burundi's Rodrigue Kwizera held off Ethiopia's Nibret Melak in an exciting finish to the men's race to win his seventh of the 2021-2022 World Athletics Cross Country Tour, remaining unbeaten at the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños in Spain.