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The World Players Association (WPA) said athletes who tested positive for recreational drugs would no longer be left to suffer with their careers in jeopardy following changes to WADA’s list... Read More

World Athletics will be introducing a significant change to the way take-off fouls are judged in long and triple jumps, starting on November 1 2021. Currently, a no-jump is called... Read More

A Week after a record-breaking 10.16 seconds, Yupun Abeykoon returned to another sizzling 100m as he clocked 10.24 seconds in the 2020 Gala Dei Castelli, World athletics bronze level series... Read More

Italy based sprinter Yupun Abeykoon smashed the 100m National Record set by Himasha Eashan of 10.22 with sizzling 10.16 (+0.4 )seconds in International Meeting at Dessau/Germany, where he beats the... Read More

(Reuters) – Norwegian sprinter Karsten Warholm broke his own European record in the 400 metres hurdles at Sunday’s Diamond League event in Stockholm, clocking a time of 46.87 seconds that was just 0.09... Read More

The local athletics community raised their eyebrows yesterday following the appointment of the National Sports Council 2020 because it lacked representation from track and field, the only sport which has... Read More

Finland throwing coach Petteri Piironen, who trained Nadeeka Lakmali and Sachith Maduranga to win Asian Championship Silver medals in 2013, is set to be the latest addition to Sri Lanka’s... Read More

Hiruni Wijayarathne, the US based Sri Lankan marathoner, marked her return to competition post Covid-19 with a stunning feat, as she shattered yet another National record, this time the 5000m... Read More

World 10,000m champion Joshua Cheptegei announced the return of international athletics with a phenomenal world 5000m record of 12:35.36* at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday night... Read More

Senegal and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have mutually agreed to postpone the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Dakar 2022 to 2026. President Macky Sall’s proposal was welcomed by IOC President... Read More

Asian Relay Championship 2021 is the newest addition to the Asian Athletics Calendar which is now out for 2021. The Competition schedule includes Asian Marathon Championship , Asian Cross Country... Read More

The world’s fastest man in 2019, 100m World Champion Christian Coleman, has received a provisional suspension due to whereabouts violation, Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed on Wednesday. Coleman who clocked... Read More

පසුගිය ලෝක මලල ක්‍රීඩා ශුරතවලියේදී ලොව වේගවත්ම මිනිසා වූ මීටර් 100 ලෝක ශූර ක්‍රිස්ටියන් කෝල්මන්ට තහනම් උත්තේජක නීති කඩකිරීම හේතුවෙන් තාවකාලික තහනමක් පැණවීමට ලෝක මලල ක්‍රීඩාවේ ජීව ගුණය ආරක්ෂා කිරීම... Read More

India’s Asian Championship2019- 800M Gold Medalist , Marimuthu Gomathi has been stripped off her medals and has banned for four years where 4th place finisher Gayanthika Abeyrathne now awaits an... Read More

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has announced a 24-hour change to the dates for Birmingham 2022. Competition will now take place between July 28 and August 8, instead of July... Read More

From a 2000 metre team race to a pole vault competition held with a delay, Thursday’s Impossible Games in Norway will break new ground as athletics comes out of its... Read More

Sprinters Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Allyson Felix and Mujinga Kambundji are among the athletes set for Weltklasse Zurich’s Inspiration Games exhibition event taking place on 9 July. While the traditional event, usually... Read More

Following Sunday’s statement from Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) regarding provisional suspension of World and Asian 400m champion Salwa Eid Naser, elite athletes voiced their concern about letter her compete in... Read More

Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said that Bahrain’s World Champion 400m runner Salwa Eid Naser who was provisionally banned on Friday, had missed four doping tests, including one in 2020, and... Read More