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Coe is the current president of World Athletics and will hope to succeed Thomas Bach

Despite his record running London 2012 and World Athletics, the Olympian cannot count on winning the popularity contest

There are few things pettier than two older privileged men behaving increasingly passively aggressively towards each other in the pursuit of…

Paris is to honour murdered Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her, according to the French capital's Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Cheptegei, who competed in the women's marathon during the Paris Olympics last month, succumbed to severe burns on Thursday after being doused with petrol and…

The funeral for Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died in Kenya after being set on fire by her boyfriend, will be held on September 14 in her home country, organisers said Sunday.

Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed in the women's marathon at the Paris Games in August, was killed by her boyfriend

The 31-year-old name-checked World Athletics president Lord Coe as he called for his event to be included in future Diamond League meets.

The Italian transgender sprinter Valentina Petrillo was emotionally overwhelmed after missing out on the final of the women’s T12 400m

"Ultimately, I do this because I love it. We want parity and that's what we push for every time."

Visually-impaired Italian previously won 11 national titles in the men's category as a married father of two

Cockroft was a class above her rivals in the women’s T34 100m final and delivered Great Britain’s first athletics gold of the Paris Games in a time of 16.8 seconds