Marcell Jacobs is confident that he can dip under 10 seconds as he returns to Italy for Sprint Festival: his first European 100 metres race in the build up to his Olympic title defence in Paris this summer, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. 

The first of three monumental track and field sculptures being temporarily installed in Paris and Strasbourg went on public display 14 May as part of the celebrations of the Cultural Olympiad of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, World Athletics Heritage and the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) announced in a press release.

Jesse Owens' historic Day of Days was immortalised at the University of Michigan's Ferry Field with a World Heritage Plaque almost 90 years after the Olympian stunned the world by establishing four world records in athletics in a 45-minute-span.

US track and field star Carl Lewis has pleaded that Noah Lyles be given some leeway as he heads into the Paris Olympics as a hot sprint favourite with a potential eye on four gold medals, Agence France-Presse reported Monday.  Lyles added another gold to his trophy cabinet by anchoring the US team to victory in the men's 4x100m on Sunday at the World Athletics Relays in Nassau, where American quartets won four of five events raced as Olympic qualifiers.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe believes track and field's own Netflix series - focusing on sprinters and due to be aired ahead of this summer's Paris Olympics - will reveal the global appeal of the sport to a wider audience.

USA Track & Field (USATF) announced in a press release Thursday that it has expanded maternity support for its athletes, building on the coverage currently offered by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). The expanded policy will provide athletes with more time to recover and requalify for Tier benefits.

Olympic gold medallist Gil Roberts has been banned for 16 months after testing positive for two banned selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs).

Fifty years ago, on a November day in New York, the lid on a new professional athletics circuit was lifted.

The 2023 World Athletics Indoor Tour will involve more meetings than ever before, with 54 events so far included on next year's calendar.

World bronze medallist Janee' Kassanavoid led a strong opening day for the United States team at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Championships in Freeport in the Bahamas as the nation won every gold medal on offer.

The concluding day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene produced one of the great athletics sessions of all time.

Rome’s Olympic Stadium on July 14 1998. Hicham El Guerrouj, targeting the world 1500 metres record, has just finished, 50 metres clear of a world-class field. Has he done it?

New meeting director Kim Gevaert has promised spectators will enjoy an assault on five-long distance world records at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels on September 2. 

The Diamond League has decided to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from all of its track and field meetings for the foreseeable future.

Four further Russians have had their applications for Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) status approved by the World Athletics Doping Review Board.