Concluding races in the decathlon and heptathlon events at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Under-20 Championships in Nairobi in 2020 will see the introduction of handicapped starts based on previous points, it has been announced.
National teams will be permitted for the first time to display the logo of a sponsor on their kit at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships, starting next year with the latest edition in Doha - for which qualifying standards have been announced.
Two 34-year-olds were honoured here tonight as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year awards went to Kenya’s marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and Colombia’s multiple world and Olympic triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen.
Budapest was today officially confirmed as the host city of the 2023 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.
Stephanie Hightower will retain her place as a member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ruling Council until next September even after the United States elected former world triple record holder Willie Banks to replace her.
A ban on Russia that has already lasted more than three years is set to be extended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) here tomorrow, while Budapest is expected to be officially awarded the 2023 World Championships.
Briton Jon Ridgeon has been appointed as the new chief executive of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), it was announced here today.
Legendary track and field performers Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zatopek are among a dozen athletes being honoured here as the first recipients of a scheme to mark their deeds with commemorative plaques.
If I was a betting man - and my bank manager, among others, should be duly grateful I am not - I would put money on Eliud Kipchoge stepping up to the stage at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco next Tuesday (December 4) to take possession of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Athlete of the Year award.
Uganda’s precociously talented 18-year-old Jacob Kiplimo maintained is domination of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Cross Country Permit season today by winning the third leg of the season in Alcobendas in Spain.
The third leg of the new International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Cross Country Permit season will take place in the outskirts of Madrid tomorrow, with Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo and Eritrea’s Aron Kifle considered the star names in the field.
World record holders Eliud Kipchoge and Kevin Mayer are among the five nominees for the 2018 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Male Athlete of the Year award.
Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo fnished well clear of fellow teenage prodigy Edward Zakayo to retain his title at the 25th anniversary running of the Cross Internacional de Soria, which this year formed the second leg of the 2018-2019 International Association of Athletics Federations Cross Country Permit series.
Armand Duplantis, Selemon Barega and Jakob Ingebrigtsen are among the five finalists named by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for the 2018 Male Rising Star Award.
Qatar National Bank (QNB), the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, has officially come on board as an official partner of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after a four-year deal was signed in Doha.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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