Athletics

Kenya's former Olympic and three-time world 1500-metres champion Asbel Kiprop says he will not fight doping charges against him and accused his country and management of abandoning him in his hour of…

The world champion shot putter, New Zealand's Tom Walsh has won at the Oslo Diamond League event setting a meeting record with his last throw.

Some female runners with naturally high testosterone levels will have to race against men or change events unless they take medication, under new rules issued by athletics' governing body.

Dame Valerie Adams has won her first competition back following a 19 month break.

Russia's ban from international athletics over widespread doping has been extended by the sport's governing body and the country has been warned it could face further sanctions this year.

Leading Commonwealth Games medal contender middle distance runner Nick Willis has pulled out of the New Zealand team for Gold Coast because of injury.

Tom Walsh has confirmed his place on the top of the shot putting world after the New Zealand athlete retained his World Indoor Championships title with a record-breaking performance.

Dame Valerie Adams has confirmed a second competition before the Commonwealth Games.

World 100m sprint champion Justin Gatlin has fired his coach, the Olympic gold medallist Dennis Mitchell, for telling undercover reporters athletes can dope without being caught.

IAAF chief Sebastian Coe says Russia has shown "significant change" in its attitude to tackling its doping scandal but refused to set a deadline for the nation's return to world athletics.

Just a couple of weeks before next April's Commonwealth Games, New Zealanders will get the chance to see two of our leading hopes for gold medals on the Gold Coast in action up close and personal.

Athletics New Zealand is hoping at attract some of the world's top athletes here in March with the announcement of five meetings around the country ahead of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Val Adams' manager expects the champion shot-putter to be sent another world title after the IAAF extended the ban of disgraced Belorussian Nadzeya Ostapchuk.

Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong has been handed a four-year ban by Kenya's anti-doping agency (ADAK) after testing positive for the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO).

The New Zealand athlete Nick Willis has won the 5th Avenue Mile in New York city for a fourth time.

Mo Farah has won the final track race of his career by the skin of his teeth.

Usain Bolt has delivered a rebuke those who questioned whether he really suffered an injury in his farewell race at the World Athletics Championships.

Usain Bolt took an emotional final bow on the track at the end of the World Championships before declaring that there was no way he would ever return to sprinting.