World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has encouraged Budapest to bid for the Olympic and Paralympic Games after a World Championships here which set "a new blueprint", and offered praise for controversial Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

There was a risk sitting down to pen my post-World Athletics Championships reflections it would turn into a long list of incredible sporting moments it had been a privilege to have been here to witness.

World Athletics has appointed Chilean official Ximena Restrepo as its senior vice-president here, President Sebastian Coe has revealed.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has joined celebrations from Britain's Loughborough University of its long-term success in the sport at the World Championships here.

Russian three-time pole vault world champion Yelena Isinbayeva has criticised fellow International Olympic Committee (IOC) member and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe for "trying to keep silent" about her role in the sport's history.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was among the spectators on day seven of the World Athletics Championships here, where Jamaica's Shericka Jackson and the United States' Noah Lyles defended their 200 metres titles in dominant fashion.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has delivered training equipment to Ukrainian athletes alongside the World Championships here, and expressed renewed praise for participants from the country.

The Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) has honoured 22 of the sport's Olympic gold medallists, world champions and record-breakers at an exhibition here.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe gazed up into the towering stands of the new National Athletics Centre here and declared, "this is a city that really wants us here".

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has insisted here "there is space" for the planned new "best of the best" event in 2026, claiming top-level athletes want "more competition" and "greater financial security from the sport".

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has admitted here climate change may impact the scheduling of its major events including the World Championships, after he expressed a scepticism at Government's ability to achieve targets to limit global warming.

Sergey Bubka thanked World Athletics for its support of Ukraine after its President Sebastian Coe presented him with the Gold Award of Merit and honorary life membership at the end of the Congress here.

Newly re-elected World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has been accused of being a Russophobe after he admitted there was little chance of them competing at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris.

Sebastian Coe has pretty much spent most of his life proving people who have written him off wrong, first as an athlete, then as an Olympic organiser and now as head of a sport that can genuinely claim to be the most diverse in the world.