World Athletics Championships

World Athletics is to introduce mandatory sustainability requirements for events owned or sanctioned by the federation as part of its goal to transition to carbon neutrality by the end of the decade

Oregon22, the local organising committee for this year’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, has teamed up with Japanese sports equipment company Asics to stage a mass participation race during t…

Singapore has announced it is bidding to bring the World Athletics Championships to Southeast Asia for the first time in 2025

BeIN Sports has secured the broadcast rights to World Athletics events for the Middle East and North Africa in a two-year deal

Kenyan state broadcaster KBC has agreed a rights deal for World Athletics Series events held in 2022 and 2023

Not-for-profit healthcare organisation PeaceHealth has agreed a deal to sponsor the 2022 edition of the World Athletics Championships in the US city of Eugene, Oregon

The European Broadcasting Union consortium has retained broadcast rights to World Athletics Series events, including the World Athletics Championships, in a long-term agreement announced this morning

The Japan Association of Athletics Federations has lodged a bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships, according to Kyodo News

Budapest’s Mayor, Gergely Karácsony, has found himself at loggerheads with the Hungarian government over the staging of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in the city amid the proposed development of…

The SABC, the South African public broadcaster, has bolstered its SABC Sport channel thanks to a deal with media group Disney that includes rights to World Athletics events, Top Rank boxing, the Dutch…

Eugene, Oregon has been awarded the hosting rights to the 2023 Diamond League final, the first time the athletics event will be held outside Europe, according to reports

Former UK Athletics chief executive Niels de Vos talks about his new role as executive director for the Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships, and explains how the event is trying to pioneer a more cost-efficient and athlete-centric hosting model.

A new union called the Athletics Association has emerged to represent the interests of track and field athletes around the world after widespread changes were made to the format of the Diamond League athletics…

World Athletics has stated it ambition to double its number of commercial partners, align its hosting protocols with the needs of cities and broaden the mass participation components of its business in…

A leaked copy of World Athletics' 2018 financial accounts has shed more light on the constrained financial picture for the federation and referenced its attempts to renegotiate some of the controversial…

Former IAAF president Lamine Diack has suggested he intervened in the way the federation dealt with doping by Russian athletes to protect sponsorship deals and to avoid tarnishing Moscow’s hosting of t…

The Commonwealth Games Federation is working with World Athletics and Uefa to ensure the Birmingham Commonwealth Games don’t overlap with a rescheduled World Athletics Championships or the Women’s Eur…

World Athletics and the local organising committee of the 2021 World Athletics Championships, Oregon21, have said they are open to rescheduling their event to accommodate any possible postponement of the…