World Athletics has launched a process to appoint its host broadcasting partner for the World Athletics Series events for five years, from 2025 to 2029, a period which will include three editions of its marquee World Athletics Championships.

World Athletics is set to repeat its Ukraine Fund for another year to help the country's athletes prepare for the upcoming World Championships in Budapest.

French legal proceedings against influential Qatari businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi in relation to alleged corruption in bids for the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships have been dropped.

Heristone Wanyonyi Wafula, who in 2021 became the first Kenyan race walker to win a world title in any age category as he claimed world under-20 gold in the men’s 10 kilometres event in Nairobi, is set on an African Games and World Championship double this year.

More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships, with the event now just 200 days away, it was revealed today. 

Jamaica’s former world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake plans to hang up his spikes after next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, he has revealed.

Robert Hersh, who rose to become the most senior American official in the history of athletics, has died at the age of 82, USA Track & Field (USATF) has announced.

Eliud Kipchoge’s world marathon record of 2 hours 01min 09sec, set in Berlin on September 25 last year, has been ratified by World Athletics.

State Secretary for Budapest Balázs Fürjes believes the city is "even more" capable of staging the Olympics but insists a decision to bid for the 2036 Games rests with the Hungarian Olympic Committee.

There was a sense of excitement and anticipation in State Secretary for Budapest Balázs Fürjes’ voice when he spoke about the latest addition to the city’s booming sporting infrastructure.

Kenya has revealed plans to bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships after missing out on the 2025 hosting rights last year.

Fifty thousand tickets have been sold for next year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest just four days after becoming available, with Men's World Athlete of the Year Mondo Duplantis appearing the biggest draw so far.

Fears over the heat have led Japanese organisers to announce that the 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in September, despite initial plans to stage the event in August.

Pole vaulters Katie Nageotte and Holly Bradshaw have been awarded the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) Fair Play Award as part of the World Athletics Awards 2022, with the Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt) taking the Member Federation prize.

World Athletics is looking at taking legal action against the worst offenders after monitoring abusive social media posts sent to competitors at this year's World Championships in Eugene.