Seven world records by five athletes hailing from four different continents in the space of only eight days. The reawakening of athletics following the Olympic summer has been spectacular, culminating ...

World Athletics has ratified Gout Gout's under-20 200m world record, after his time set at the national championships in ...

Jakob Ingebrigtsen shattered the long-standing 3,000 metres world record by more than three seconds at the Silesia Diamond League meeting on Sunday. The Norwegian finished in a time of 7min 17.55sec, ...

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Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships ...

Australia is officially taking the athletics world by storm after Aidan Murphy recorded the second-fastest 400m time by an ...

During a year where more than 10 athletics world records have already been broken, fans now look to the Diamond League Final in Brussels, Belgium to add at least one more. In an Olympic year, the ...

World Athletics officials have ignored critics of Gout Gout’s greatest performance and declared it a world record.

The weekend leading up to the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Nottwil delivered a wave of world records* across Europe. In Spain, Colombia’s Xiomara Saldarriaga set a new women’s discus F38 mark at ...

Two-time Paralympics gold medallist Sumit Antil sent the spear soaring to a distance of 74.82m, breaking his previous world ...