A 16-year-old from New Zealand has set a new world record for the fastest mile ever run by an under–18 athlete.

The World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold season kicked off in style with a world record and a world best in Boston.

Fans have been left stunned after a teenage runner smashed a world record which stood for more than 40 years. Sam Ruthe, from New Zealand, is a young rising star of middle and long-distance running in ...

Three new World Records set in 2022 has been ratified by the World Athletics. Kipchoge won the 2022 Berlin Marathon with a time of 2:01:09, which surpassed his previous WR by 30 seconds, set on the ...

World Athletics is saddened to hear that former world 10,000m record-holder Fernando Mamede died on Tuesday (27) at the age of 74.

Jan 24 (Reuters) - American Josh Hoey shattered the men's 800 metres short track world record at the Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on Saturday, clocking 1:42.50 to break a mark that stood for over 28 ...

There’s an irony to meeting Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis on the 39th floor of his hotel in Tokyo. He seems much more at home up in the air than down on the ground. On Monday, the Swedish pole vaulter ...

Three years later, in Edinburgh in 1994, O’Sullivan ran 5:25.36 to break the world record over 2,000m. A rarely raced ...

The radical plan to wipe out athletics world records set before 2005 was not a cowardly proposal, a senior member of the sports governing body said Thursday. Olivier Gers was responding to criticism ...

TOKYO (AP) — Armand “Mondo” Duplantis traded handshakes and hugs with the pole vaulters he'd just beaten to capture his third world championship. He took a leisurely walk toward the stands to talk to ...