The United States topped the medals table after nine days of riveting action at the world championships marked by Usain Bolt's return to the top of his game after disqualification in the 100m.
The US amassed 25 medals, including 12 gold, eight (...)
Doha can bid for the 2017 world championships with a late September date to avoid the summer desert heat, IAAF President Lamine Diack said Sunday.
Diack added that Barcelona, Spain, had decided at the last moment to drop out of the bid process, (...)
The IAAF has no plans to change its stringent false start rule for next year's London Olympics despite the disqualification of Usain Bolt in the 100 meters at the World Championships.
IAAF President Lamine Diack said no one at Sunday's Council (...)
Imane Merga of Ethiopia was
disqualified and stripped of his 5,000 world championship metres
bronze for running outside the track during Sunday's race, according to dpa.
The ruling body IAAF said that compatriot Dejen Gebremeskel would
move (...)
Double amputee Oscar Pistorius must run the first leg for South Africa if he is to take part in the 4x400m relay at the World Championships, athletics governing body said Friday.“This person is a particular case,” IAAF head Lamine Diack said of the (...)
Senegal's Lamine Diack was overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday, but vice president Sergei Bubka needed a second vote to retain his position.
Bubka, the retired world pole (...)
A new, slimmed-down competition schedule will have triple champion Usain Bolt running fewer races when he defends his sprint titles at the World Athletics Ahampionships that begin in Daegu Saturday.
The Jamaican, like most sprinters, will need only (...)
Usain Bolt will put his famous “Who faster?” taunt to the test again at the world championships.
So far, it has worked every time it has mattered most.
Ever since his stunning world records and gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters at the 2008 (...)
