Athletics

Two-time Olympic shot put champion Dame Valerie Adams has announced she is pregnant but is still committed to competing in her fifth Commonwealth Games in Australia next year.

Olympic medalists Tom Walsh and Eliza McCartney headline the first group of New Zealand athletes named for this year's World Championships in London.

IAAF chief Sebastian Coe is disappointed by the lack of progress being made by Russia in cleaning up its anti-doping regime.

Three Russian athletes, including the women's defending European indoor pole vault champion, have been cleared to compete in international competition under a neutral flag.

The greatest shot put field to ever line up in New Zealand will compete in Christchurch this weekend and Auckland next week.

Russia will miss this year's World Championships after athletics' governing body voted to extend their suspension from international competition for state-sponsored doping.

Jamaican Usain Bolt says it is rough losing one of his nine Olympic gold medals after relay team mate Nesta Carter was found guilty of doping.

The two-time Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton has announced his retirement.

Olympic athlete Mo Farah and world tennis number one Andy Murray have been knighted in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's Honours List.

A new International Athletics Series hosted in New Zealand next February will see the country's Rio Olympics stars in action against some of the world's top athletes.

Poor outings at the 2016 Rio Olympics have proved costly for the All Blacks sevens, New Zealand Cycling, Football, Triathlon and Swimming organisations.

The New Zealand runner Camille Buscomb has claimed her first Zatopek 10,000m title with an upset win in Melbourne.

Japanese sportswear giant Asics Corp will take over from Adidas as the official sponsor of World Atheltics.

Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson both made the shortlists for the IAAF's World Athlete of the Year awards.

The New Zealand athlete Zane Robertson has won the a 10km road race in Germany, breaking the national and Oceania records in the process.

American shot putter Michelle Carter, who beat Valerie Adams to Olympic gold in Rio, was given an exemption to use usually-banned drugs.

She almost gave up para-athletics, but javelin thrower Holly Robinson is now a leading gold medal contender for New Zealand at the Paralympics.

Olympic shot put bronze medalist Tom Walsh has come second at an event in Thum, Germany.

Rio 2016 Olympics - Long distance runner Zane Robertson has broken the New Zealand 10,000m record to finish 12th at the Rio Olympics.