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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.
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

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.

Armand Duplantis

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

Armand Duplantis

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

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.

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.

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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.

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis shone on the biggest stage again, setting his 14th pole vault world record this year. Photo: Xinhua
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.

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.

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.

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet (left) and Faith Kipyegon celebrate first and second place in the women’s 5000m at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo on Saturday. Photo: dpa
Hong Kong Sports Institute

Explainer | 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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Wong Wan-chun has broken Hong Kong records at 10km, half-marathon and marathon. Photo: Edmond So

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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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.

Australian schoolboy sprint sensation Gout Gout will race in the heats of the 200m on Wednesday. Photo: AP
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.

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.

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‘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.

Sebastian Coe is entering the final two years of his term as World Athletics president. Photo: Reuters
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.

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’.

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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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (centre, in yellow) crosses the finish line in a new world record time to win global 100m gold in 2009. Photo: AFP

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.

Armand Duplantis, competing here in Beijing, will be among a host of stellar names at the Diamond League, which kicks off in Xiamen. Photo: Xinhua
Trending in China

Wu Yanni wants Asian 100m hurdles record, but admits Olympics a step too far

Chinese athlete says she can’t compete with Western counterparts, targets top eight finish at LA Games in 2028.

Trending in China

Tearful Wu Yanni’s 60m hurdles Worlds failure sparks furious social media debate

Despite setting a new national record time of 8.01 seconds, the 27-year-old missed out on qualification by 0.01 seconds.

Australian sprinting prodigy Gout Gout, 17, clocks world-leading 200m time

Youngster rose to prominence in December when he clocked the quickest time ever by a 16-year-old – beating Usain Bolt’s best at the same age.

Australia’s Gout Gout celebrates after winning the 200m final at the Queensland State Championships in Brisbane on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Trail running and hiking

Clean air and empty runway offer elite women chance to break 10km world record

The race on the new tarmac will be held in November, with organisers hoping to attract 12,000 runners, including 50 of the world’s top women.

Kwan Kee, chairman of the Hong Kong, China Association of Athletics Affiliates, at the launch of the Three-runway system 10km international race at Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: Elson Li

Ingebrigtsen smashes 3,000m world record, soaring Swede Duplantis hits new heights

Norwegian Ingebrigtsen breaks 28-year-old world record at Diamond League meet in Poland, and Swedish Olympic champion Duplantis raises own pole vault mark.

Athletics great Johnson launches ‘best of the best’ circuit for track runners

Grand Slam Track will debut in April 2025 with two 3-day meetings in the US and two global one, with US$3m in prize money at each event

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