World Athletics

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
Athletics
Events

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…
Multi-sport
Events

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…
Athletics
Events

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
Athletics
Events

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
Athletics
Events

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
Athletics
Media

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has sealed rights to athletics’ Diamond League in Germany and Austria, from 2021 to 2023.
Athletics
Media

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has secured the rights to show athletics' Diamond League series live from 2021 to 2024
Multi-sport
Events

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
Athletics
Media

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
Athletics
Sponsorship & Marketing

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.
Athletics
Media

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…
Volleyball
Fan Engagement

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