World Athletics
Japan ‘lodges bid’ for 2025 World Athletics Championships
The Japan Association of Athletics Federations has lodged a bid to host the 2025 World Athletics Championships, according to Kyodo News
World Athletics rebuilds reserves after $6.8m RusAF fine and 38-per-cent cost cuts
World Athletics managed to rebuild its cash reserves by 17 per cent to $40m (€34.1m) in 2020 thanks to a further payment of $6.8
Budapest and Hungarian government in dispute over World Athletics Championships
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…
World Athletics: Tokyo 100m finals light show based on Doha 2019 spectacle
World Athletics has explained how the spectacular projection mapping light show that set the stage for the women’s and men’s 100m sprint finals at the Tokyo Olympics over the weekend was based on a sim…
Riga and Guangzhou to host 2023 World Athletics events, Minsk replaced by Muscat
World Athletics has awarded the 2023 Road Running Championships to the Latvian city of Riga and announced that Guangzhou, China, will host the World Relays in May of the same year
World Race Walking Team Championships latest event to be moved from Minsk
World Athletics has announced that it will seek an alternative host for the 2022 World Race Walking Team Championships, the rights for which had originally been awarded to Minsk, Belarus
Oregon ‘to host’ 2023 Diamond League Final
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
Sky Deutschland seals exclusive Diamond League rights in Germany and Austria
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has sealed rights to athletics’ Diamond League in Germany and Austria, from 2021 to 2023.
BBC secures Diamond League rights until 2024
UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has secured the rights to show athletics' Diamond League series live from 2021 to 2024
Empty Tokyo Olympic stadium hosts track and field test event
A track and field test event for Tokyo 2020 on Sunday (May 9) saw hundreds of athletes take part inside an empty National Stadium as organisers tested Covid-19 countermeasures
NMG to show ‘home’ World Athletics U20 Championships in TVMS deal
The TV Media Sport agency has agreed a rights deal with Kenyan media company Nation Media Group for the World Athletics U20 Championships, which will take place in Nairobi in August
Unilever supports Semenya’s cause as part of Lux campaign
Consumer goods giant Unilever has launched a campaign to support Olympic champion middle-distance runner Caster Semenya in her latest effort to overturn a controversial ruling by World Athletics.
TG4 to return World Athletics meets to Irish free-to-air television
World Athletics’ annual series of meetings will return to television in Ireland for the first time in over two decades after Irish-language broadcaster TG4 agreed a rights deal with the sport’s world gov…
FIVB best performing Olympic federation on social media, says study
The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has been voted the best performing Olympic International Federation on social media in a study by the Redtorch digital agency
World Athletics launches stakeholder survey to develop 2030 roadmap
World Athletics has committed to conduct a global survey of its stakeholders to create a ‘World Plan’ for the sport from 2022 to 2030.
World Athletics: Road Running Championships attract interest from 12 cities
World Athletics has said 12 cities have expressed interest in hosting its inaugural Road Running Championships in 2023, although declined to identify them
Allianz replaces AG as title sponsor of Memorial Van Damme event
Insurance company Allianz has committed to a four-year title sponsorship of the Memorial Van Damme track and field event in Belgium, from 2021 to 2024