The World Athletics Heritage Award, created by World Athletics President Lord Sebastian Coe, recognises "an outstanding contribution to the global history and development of the sport". The announcement comes with just a few days left to enter the Great North Run ballot, the organisation informed.

A little under three weeks from now the Gateshead International Stadium will live up to its name as of old when it hosts the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.

Olympic bronze medallist Brendan Foster has received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Sir Mo Farah became the first athlete to win four Great North Run titles in a row today as he overtook Jake Robertson with 400 metres remaining to sprint home in 60min 06sec, with the New Zealander, who had tried to get away over the final mile, second in 60:12 and Ethiopia’s Olympic marathon silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa third in 61:32.

Olympic bronze medallist Brendan Foster has joined Birmingham's bid team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Brendan Foster was presented with the John Disley Lifetime Achievement Award after today's Virgin Money London Marathon following his announcement last week that he is step down as a commentator for BBC after 37 years.

My colleague David Owen wrote this week, at the end of this dark year, of the "redemptive power" of sport.

British athletics stars CJ Ujah and Adelle Tracey helped to lay the first sections of new track at the London 2012 Olympic Stadium here today.

Distance running great Haile Gebrselassie has pulled out of this weekend’s Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run to be with his eldest sister who is seriously ill.

Street athletics, a concept championed by, among others, the newly-appointed President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Sebastian Coe, is set to go global following the announcement of plans for a Great World CityGames.

Is Brendan Foster right when he says that Mo Farah is now the greatest-ever British sportsman?

Brendan Foster and Sebastian Coe are among those who have welcomed the European Athletics initiative in launching a new set of guidelines for runners and organisers involved in the increasingly popular phenomenon of road races across its 50 member federations, entitled “Running for All”.