Plans for the 2021 Tokyo Marathon have been put on hold due to COVID-19, as the Japanese capital remains in a state of emergency with just a month to go.

Double Olympic and Wanda Diamond League 1500 metres champion Faith Kipyegon will be one of the marquee home attractions at tomorrow’s final World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season in Nairobi.

The World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst have been postponed for a second time due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in Australia.

Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba broke the women’s 2,000 metres world record on her way to victory at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Croatian capital Zagreb.

Britain are set to be stripped of their Tokyo 2020 men's 4x100 metres relay silver medal after CJ Ujah's B sample confirmed his positive test.

Derara Hurisa of Ethiopia was stripped of his victory in last weekend’s Vienna City Marathon after the soles of his running shoes were found to be one centimetre too thick.

The Moscow Marathon has been postponed until 2022 amid ongoing COVID-19 restrictions in the Russian capital.

Athletics New Zealand (ANZ) has been criticised over qualifying criteria it has imposed for the 2022 Commonwealth Games by athletes who feel they unfairly missed out on past events, but the governing body insists the qualifying standards are there to ensure the competitors picked can win medals.

The penultimate meeting of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold is set for the Sports Park Mladost in Croatian capital Zagreb, with the throw events likely to be particularly hotly contested.

A host of Olympic gold medallists will be in attendance at the two-day Wanda Diamond League final which starts in Zürich tomorrow, with 32 champions due to emerge from those who have qualified in the course of this season’s previous 11 meetings.

Australia's Madison de Rozario won her second athletics gold at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games by claiming the women's T54 marathon title by one second on the final day of action at the Olympic Stadium.

An all-Italian podium ended the last day of track and field competition in athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, with Ambra Sabatini setting a new world record in the women's T63 100 metres final.

Suitably rested, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will return to action at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Chorzow, Poland tomorrow for the first time since running the third fastest women’s 100 metres time ever.

Germany's Markus Rehm claimed gold for a third time with a victory in the men's T64 long jump final on the sixth day of athletics competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.