athletics

The death of Dick Fosbury allowed us to remember a figure that altered the technique of high jumping like no other athlete did with his discipline.

The American died at the age of 76 and marked an era in athletics with the “Fosbury flop”, the innovative style that led him to be Olympic champion in Mexico 1968 and that the world uses today. “I was already practicing backjumping in high school and everyone was laughing at me,” he said in an interview.

With the exception of Malaika Mihambo and Marcell Jacobs, all the winners in Tokyo who presented themselves in Istanbul 2023 won their test. No seats were distributed for Paris, but new and particular records did emerge and there was also room for historic deeds.

Athletics at the Olympic Games will take place from August 1 to 11 and World Athletics announced when each competition will be held: the first medals will be distributed in the men's 20 km march and the women's marathon will close. Review all the finals.

Shelly Ann Fraser is an example of excellence and commitment on the tracks. And outside of them.

In the same week that 31 medalists in London 2012 were required to return the awards, the Oklahoma-born sprinter, winner in Rio 2016, will be disabled from competing until October 2023.

World Athletics chose the American hurdler and the Swedish pole vaulter as the best in 2022. The two set new world records. Erriyon Knighton and Adriana Vilagoš, the emerging athletes.

Is the competitive restriction imposed on the South African only a debatable question of sporting equality?

After trading medals months after the 2015 European Games, Austria and Slovakia are set to do so once again nearly seven years later.

Competing in front of friends and family, Armand Duplantis raised his own outdoor pole vault World Record to 6.16m/20′ 2 1/2″. The Swedish Diamond League meeting at historic 1912 Olympic Stadium served as an important final tune-up for athletes before travel to world championships in the U.S.

Ten Tokyo 2020 individual Olympic champions set to compete at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico. Tamberi excited to perform in front of “Curva Sud.” U.S. legend Allyson Felix informs that this may be her final career Diamond League appearance

High and lows for Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalists at Moroccan Diamond League meeting: Joining El Bakkali, Jamaican sprinting star Thompson-Herah and Greek long jumper Tentoglou claim victories, while Norwegian 400m hurdler Warholm suffers hamstring injury and American pole vaulter Nageotte “No Heights”

Qatari athletics star Mutaz Essa Barshim will once again go head-to-head with his close Italian friend and fellow Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist Gianmarco Tamberi. The season-opening Diamond League meet this Friday evening will be highlighted by seven reigning Olympic champions

The AIU announced sanctions against Russian racewalker Yelena Lashmanova on Monday. Lashmanova will likely be stripped of her lone Olympic medal and World Title as part of the disciplinary proceedings

Asian record holder Ernest John Obiena was dismissed from his national team in a decision imposed by the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA). In support of Obiena, the Philippine Olympic Committee had declared PATAFA president Philip Juico as persona non grata

Beijing, Paris, Qatar will mark the calendar with red-letter days

World Athletics has approved new regulations governing athletic shoes that will come into effect following the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. The changes come after shoe technology was held under increasing scrutiny by athletes and fans for artificially improving athletic performances.

World Athletics, the federation he presided over for 16 years between 1999 and 2015, did not reflect on its website the death of its former top leader.

The death of the Lima 2019 Games champion occurred hours before the burial of Kenya’s promising Olympic athlete, Agnes Tirop, victim of another crime.

Bulgarian sports leader is unanimously elected EA president at Lausanne Congress. European Athletics Convention and Golden Tracks Gala also on the schedule.

World Athletics and the International Olympic Committee will continue to investigate the incident involving the Belarusian sprinter through the AIU.

The UCI granted Vatican City membership during the organization’s 190th Congress, becoming the first international sports federation to do so.

The athlete, who refused to return to Minsk from Tokyo, hopes to compete for Poland in Paris 2024, although she may face a difficult process with the Olympic cycle shortened to three years and the likely position of the Belarusian Federation.