France – On an evening of stunning middle-distance performances at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay produced the highlight by taking two seconds off the world indoor 1500m record*, winning at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in 3:53.09. [Read more…]
Nanjing Indoor Championships postponed
It is with regret that we have agreed with the organisers of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing (13-15 March 2020) to postpone the event to March 2021. [Read more…]
Yomif Kejelcha World Indoor Mile Record ratified
Yomif Kejelcha’s 3:47.01 clocking at the Bruce Lehane Invitational in Boston has been ratified as the world indoor mile record. [Read more…]
Yomif Kejelcha sets Indoor Mile World Record
Boston, USA – Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha smashed the world indoor record* for the mile, clocking 3:47.01 at the Bruce Lehane Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday 3rd March 2019 (3). [Read more…]
IAAF Heritage collection to be launched
On the last day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 (1 to 4 March), historic athletics artefacts from the ancient Olympic Games to the modern era will be donated to help establish the IAAF Heritage collection. [Read more…]
Indoor Champs for Poland
In just two weeks’ time, the focus of the athletics world will fall on Sopot, Poland as the 15th edition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships gets underway on 7 March. [Read more…]
Dibaba sets new Record
Her big sister Tirunesh has twice been a world record breaker indoors and it was the turn Genzebe Dibaba to make her own mark on the under cover record books when she smashed the women’s world indoor 1500m record * by more than three seconds with a run of 3:55.17 at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Saturday (1). [Read more…]
Birmingham Indoor Thriller 2013
The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team enjoyed six victories as the British Athletics Grand Prix returned to Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, in arguably the world’s finest indoor event this afternoon. [Read more…]
Prague to host 2015 European Indoors
European Athletics has awarded the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships to Prague. [Read more…]
Isinbayeva sets WR in pole vault
Russian Yelena Isinbayeva sets new world record in Ericson Globe in Stockholm 23 February 2012. [Read more…]