World Athletics
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World Athletics, formerly the IAAF. The home of running, jumping, throwing, and walking. Providing the inside track on the world's best athletes & competitions.
World Athletics
1y ago
The World Athletics Council has selected Tokyo, Japan, to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships ..read more
World Athletics
2y ago
It is expected that up to 1400 athletes from over 60 nations will compete in the heart of the Alps ..read more
World Athletics
2y ago
World Athletics has launched the pre-qualification for hosting the World Athletics Relays 2024 ..read more
World Athletics
2y ago
World Athletics has launched the pre-qualification for the next two editions of the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships, taking place in 2024 and 2026 ..read more
World Athletics
3y ago
'RUN - The Athlete Refugee Team Story', shares the incredible and inspirational story of the Athlete Refugee Team (ART), from its formal beginnings in early 2017 through the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year that halted, albeit temporarily, their seemingly impossible journey towards the Tokyo Olympic Games ..read more
World Athletics
3y ago
It would be understandable for anyone to be fazed by the presence of an athlete like the ground-breaking Eliud Kipchoge in their event. But for Swiss marathon record-holder Tadesse Abraham, competing against the world record-holder and Olympic gold medal-winning Kenyan icon is a modest challenge compared to what he faced as a young refugee ..read more
World Athletics
3y ago
Tachlowini Gabriyesos, newly – very newly – selected for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Games, is a restless presence on screen as our Zoom call starts ..read more
World Athletics
3y ago
World champions Karsten Warholm, Yulimar Rojas, Tajay Gayle, Anzhelika Sidorova and Kelsey-Lee Barber are among the first stars confirmed for the Meeting Herculis EBS – part of the Wanda Diamond League – in Monaco on 9 July ..read more
World Athletics
3y ago
“Sport has that power to change a life,” says Rose Nathike Lokonyen, smiling down the camera from her base in Ngong, Kenya. “Especially for refugees ..read more
World Athletics
3y ago
Francisco Belo, Fanny Roos and Ama Pipi were among the many athletes to break a meeting record at the Kladno hází a Kladenské Memoriály – a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting – in Kladno on Tuesday (15 ..read more