Double world athletics champion Teddy Tamgho has received a one-year retroactive ban for competing while ineligible.

Tokyo will stage all the medal events, including the marathon and race walks, when the Japanese capital hosts the World Athletics Championships in 2025, Sebastian Coe has promised.

Germany's two-time World Championships discus medallist Michael Möllenbeck has died after a long illness at the age of 52.

Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan has had her women's 100 metres world record of 12.12sec ratified by World Athletics following doubts over the accuracy of the timing system used in the race.

According to a World Athletics survey, more than 70 per cent of athletes are seriously concerned about climate change.

The logo for the 2023 World Athletics Championships has been revealed to mark a year until the competition is due to get underway at Budapest in Hungary.

World Athletics Council member Antti Pihlakoski has called for change to the rules governing reaction times, following the controversial disqualification of Devon Allen from the 110 metres hurdles final at the World Championships in Eugene.

Birmingham City Council Leader Ian Ward has refused to rule out a future bid for the Olympics, but revealed obtaining the hosting rights for the World Athletics Championships as a more immediate big ambition.

America's sprint legend Michael Johnson has found himself at the centre of a "racism" storm after he cast doubt over the accuracy of the timing system at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

The concluding day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene produced one of the great athletics sessions of all time.

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".

Italy's Olympic 20 kilometres race walk champion Massimo Stano won the first men's 35km walk to be held at the World Athletics Championships in an unofficial world record of 2 hours 23min 14sec on the final day of competition in Eugene, finishing a second ahead of Japan's Masatora Kawano.

Doubt has been cast over Dina Asher-Smith's participation at the upcoming Commonwealth Games here after suffering an injury scare at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene in the United States.

Tokyo 2020 decathlon champion Damian Warner is contemplating a second day of competition that will take place without him at the World Athletics Championships after suffering a hamstring injury during the final event of day one.