The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a Disciplinary Tribunal's decision to clear Nigerian 100 metres hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan of whereabouts failures.

A place in the top five on the medals table at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles remains the target set by the German Athletics Association (DLV) despite its worst performance at the World Athletics Championships last month.

Day two of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene produced two world records as Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay took almost five seconds off the women's 5,000 metres mark with a time of 14min 00.21sec and Sweden's Mondo Duplantis raised his men’s pole vault mark to 6.23 metres.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen rounded off the opening night of the Wanda Diamond League final in Eugene by winning the Bowerman Mile in 3min 43.73sec, the third fastest time ever run and just 0.60sec shy of Hicham El Guerrouj's 1999 world record.

International officials have claimed that they still have "confidence" that Birmingham will be able to host the 2026 European Athletics Championships, despite the British city’s perilous financial situation.

Australia have named a 20-strong athletics team as well as eight judokas for this year's Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

Athletics statistician and commentator Peter Matthews has died suddenly at the age of 78, it has been announced.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) member and legendary pole vaulter Sergey Bubka has hit back at a "campaign to destroy my reputation" after reports emerged of him trying to do business in Russian occupied Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) since the invasion of Ukraine began.

Beatrice Chepkoech concluded the final World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of the season in Zagreb by shattering the world best for the women’s 2,000 metres steeplechase with a time of 5min 47.42sec.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, running here in a revamped stadium with a super-fast new track, marked the occasion of the penultimate Diamond League meeting of the season by setting a world record in the men’s 2,000 metres.

Steeplechase athlete Emma Oudiou has accused the French Athletics Federation (FFA) of prioritising a push for medals at next year’s Olympics in Paris rather than protecting victims of sexual abuse.

Newly established world champions enjoyed mixed fortunes as the Chinese city of Xiamen’s 10-lane Egret Stadium hosted its first Wanda Diamond League meeting, with 2023 world-leading performances coming from Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Christian Coleman and Beatrice Chebet.

Four days after the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, 12 individual gold medallists took part in the main Zurich Diamond League meeting, with eight managing to produce winning performances.

The volunteers who helped make the World Athletics Championships in Budapest such a success have been nominated for a prestigious international fair play award.

Kenya's gold medallists at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest Faith Kipyegon and Mary Moraa have targeted further success at next year's Olympic Games in Paris.