World Athletics

Athletics
Events

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
Athletics
Media

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has secured rights to World Athletics’ top-tier Diamond League series in a three-year deal running until 2024.
Athletics
Governance

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, has mounted a robust defence of the organisation's ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes, saying "we couldn’t stomach the idea" of athletes competing f…
Athletics
Licensing & Merchandising

World Athletics has appointed sports retail and merchandise company Cube Partnership as the official master licensee for the federation and its World Athletics Series events until the end of 2025
Athletics
Events

Organisers of the Diamond League track and field series have banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from its events “for the foreseeable future” following the invasion of Ukraine.
Athletics
Events

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

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

World Athletics has announced that its Indoor Tour Gold series will enjoy record broadcast coverage for its 2022 season, with 22 deals having been put in place by the Infront agency
Athletics
Events

Shenzhen has become the second Chinese city to be added to the Diamond League series schedule following Wanda Sports’ title sponsorship agreement with the competition.
Athletics
Governance

Lamine Diack, the controversial former president of World Athletics, has died at the age of 88
Athletics
Events

Glasgow's Emirates Arena has been awarded the hosting rights to the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships
Multiple Sports
Events

New Australian sports industry conference SportNXT has announced that its inaugural event will take place April 6-8 next year in Melbourne, the same week as the Formula 1 Grand Prix in the city
Athletics
Events

Athletics' Diamond League has unveiled its provisional calendar for 2022, announcing plans to visit 14 cities on four continents across the course of the season
Olympic Games
Events

A potential diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games by the US or other Western countries would be “a meaningless gesture”, the World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has said. 
Athletics
Sponsorship & Marketing

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
Athletics
Media

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
Athletics
Events

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

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