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The World Athletics Championships is a biennial competition organised by World Athletics (formerly the IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). They started in 1976 and were originally held every four years before switching to a two-year cycle in 1991.
Zheng Fengrong was affectionately praised as “a swallow announcing the arrival of spring for Chinese sports” after her world record. Photo: Xinhua

Obituary | Zheng Fengrong, first Chinese female athlete to break world record, dies aged 89

The high jump pioneer won numerous awards for her achievements and served as vice-president of the Chinese Athletics Association.

China’s teen javelin star Yan makes it 3 wins from 3 at Diamond League in Paris

Chinese javelin star Yan Ziyi wins Diamond League event, with world’s second-best throw

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Vera Lui Lai-yiu

Hong Kong hurdler Lui under spotlight after winning Challenger event for Monaco

Asian Games bronze medallist wins 100m hurdles at European meet, says she complied with international rules, will never change nationality.

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Hong Kong hurdler Vera Lui with a Monaco flag draped around her after winning the 100m hurdles event at the meet in Monaco last month. Photo: Handout
Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games

Meet Yan Ziyi, Chinese teen who ‘cannot give up’ and is taking javelin by storm

After throwing the second-best distance in history, the Ningbo native made no secret of her targets: the Asian Games and the 2028 Olympics.

China teen shatters Asian javelin record, goes close to world’s best

Yan Ziyi’s throw at Xiamen Diamond League meet would have easily won gold at Paris Olympics; marathoner Feng Peiyou wins Asian Games spot.

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Olympic champion Russell overcomes mental hurdles to inch closer to world record

Karsten Warholm, Cordell Tinch, Alison dos Santos and Ryan Crouser are all part of an elite field at the Diamond League event in Xiamen.

Masai Russell (centre), here competing in Zhejiang Province in May, is hoping to break the 100m hurdles world record in Saturday’s Xiamen Diamond League event. Photo: Xinhua
Armand Duplantis

Duplantis wins in Shanghai Diamond League meet but fails in world record bid

Swedish world record-holder sews up his win after two jumps while Norwegian Karsten Warholm is shocked in the 300m.

Armand Duplantis

Two-time Olympic champion Armand Duplantis kicks off Diamond League season in China

The US-born Swede will be joined by Faith Kipyegon, Karsten Warholm, Letsile Tebogo and Tobi Amusan in a high-octane start to the series.

Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt hopes Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout has strong support system

The 18-year-old is set to ‌make his Diamond ‌League debut in Oslo and is being talked about as a potential Olympic gold medallist in 2032.

Gout Gout has earned ‌comparisons with the Jamaican sprinting great, Usain Bolt. Photo: Reuters

World Athletics awards indoor championships to India in 2028, Kazakhstan in 2030

President Sebastian Coe justified the choices for the global 3-day competition as an opportunity to ‘get more than a toehold’ in important markets.

The world indoor championships attracts some of the globe’s biggest names to compete across various disciplines like the 3,000m. Photo: Reuters
Armand Duplantis

Fear of failure still drives Duplantis despite 15 world records, Olympic golds

Swedish pole vault great aiming for fourth World Athletics Indoor Championships title in Poland on Saturday.

Year in Review

Year in athletics: Mondo Duplantis shines, the US enjoys a stellar year

Doping still lingers over the sport, with Kenyan and Russian athletes the biggest offenders.

Doping in sport

Hospital video helps clear Chinese long jump world champion Wang of doping

China’s anti-doping body says this week athlete was not negligent or at fault after failing an out-of-competition test last year.

Wang Jianan became the first man from Asia to win a long jump gold medal at the World Athletics Championships when he did so in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022. Photo: AP
Fame and celebrity

Who is Mondo Duplantis, serial pole vault world record breaker?

At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, the Swede, who is still coached by his parents, set his 14th world record in the sport.

Two-time Olympic gold-medallist Armand “Mondo” Duplantis with his fiancée, Desiré Inglander. Photos: @mondo_duplantis, @desireinglander/Instagram
Doping in sport

Kenyan athletes shine at Tokyo world championships, but doping remains a problem

The East African nation has invested millions to combat the issue, but it remains on anti-doping agency Wada’s watch list.

Hong Kong Sports Institute

Why Hong Kong’s fastest marathon runner was exiled by athletics chiefs

How a sponsorship deal and a switch of accommodation spiralled into a stand-off between Wong Wan-chun and the HKAAA.

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Watch ‘box office’ McLaughlin-Levrone blast her way to historic 400m time

American athlete powered through Tokyo rain to post the fastest women’s 400m time in 40 years.

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United States’ Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins the women’s 400 meters final at the World Athletics Championships. Photo: AP
Marathons

Duplantis breaks pole vault world record in Tokyo after amazing marathon finish

Men’s marathon proves closer than men’s 100m final as it ends in a photo finish, a first for a major championship.

Usain Bolt

World Athletics Championships: Gout Gout, 17, eyes Tokyo test, then school exams

Compared to Usain Bolt, teen sprinter says he hopes to become first Australian to run 200m in under 20 seconds.

Hong Kong Athletics Championships

Lui’s dream comes true after shock World Athletics Championships call-up

The 30-year-old, who becomes the first hurdler from the city to take part in the event in 14 years, got a wild card late last month.

Vera Lui will race in the 100m hurdles at the world championships on Sunday but her eyes are on the National Games in November. Photo: EPA-EFE
Noah Lyles

Tokyo world championships: Tebogo’s legs to ‘do the talking’ in Lyles showdown

Softly spoken Botswana Olympic champion and ‘arrogant’ American rival set to square off in the 100m, 200m races from Saturday.

Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo runs with children around a course during a visit to a primary school gymnasium on Tuesday before the start of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Photo: AFP
Doping in sport

From doping to damaged goods: Russian athletics’ long road to reintegration

As Russia sits out September’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, its national federation is battling to rebuild trust.

‘Big and punchy’: athletics chief Coe looks to future in final 2 years in role

Sebastian Coe looking to remind world that his sport is ‘still there’ with unashamed courting of TV.

Hong Kong Sports Institute

Hong Kong ‘great’ base for Team GB athletes starting World Championships quest

Toby Harries targeting more Olympic glory after sacrificing potential international rugby career and coming back from brink of retirement.

Toby Harries and his Great Britain team in training at HKSI for the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou. Photo: British Athletics

India’s Chopra withdraws invite to Pakistani javelin rival after Kashmir attack

Arshad Nadeem’s potential involvement in Neeraj Chopra Classic prompted ‘hate and abuse’, Chopra says, adding it was now ‘out of question’.

India’s Neeraj Chopra has withdrawn an invite to his Pakistani rival following the deadly terror attacks in Kashmir. Photo: EPA-EFE

100 metres in 9 seconds? Usain Bolt’s record may be beaten thanks to Hongkonger

Times could soon be 20 per cent quicker, according to entrepreneur Alvina Chen, whose company has made ‘world’s fastest running surface’.

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Diamond League CEO bats away concerns over rival Grand Slam Track series

Competition’s CEO says the circuit remains integral to global athletics, despite the launch of Michael Johnson’s track-event-only series.

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