Athletics
Dame Val wins in comeback event
Dame Valerie Adams has won her first competition back following a 19 month break.
Russia's athletics ban extended
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.
Injury forces Willis out of Comm Games
Leading Commonwealth Games medal contender middle distance runner Nick Willis has pulled out of the New Zealand team for Gold Coast because of injury.
Walsh wins gold, McCartney just misses medal
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 Val confirms another competition
Dame Valerie Adams has confirmed a second competition before the Commonwealth Games.
Gatlin fires coach caught in doping sting
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.
Coe: Russia has shown 'significant change'
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.
NZ athletes to show their skills at home
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.
Tom Walsh & Eliza McCartney headline acts for Athletics series
The Athletics New Zealand International Series in March, just two weeks before the Commonwealth Games, will feature events in Timaru, Christchurch, Auckland and the iconic Cooks Gardens in Whanganui.
…Tom Walsh and Eliza McCartney to host athletics meetings
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.
Adams to get another world title
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.
Kenya's Sumgong banned for four years for doping offence
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).
Willis wins 5th Avenue mile again
The New Zealand athlete Nick Willis has won the 5th Avenue Mile in New York city for a fourth time.
Do compression garments work?
Could very tight clothing improve your athletic performance? We unwrap the truth with David Cox, who's been investigating such claims for The Guardian. Audio
Farah wins after Ethiopians collide
Mo Farah has won the final track race of his career by the skin of his teeth.
Bolt shows evidence of hamstring injury
Usain Bolt has delivered a rebuke those who questioned whether he really suffered an injury in his farewell race at the World Athletics Championships.
Bolt won't be back
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.
Bolt injured in final race
Usain Bolt pulled up with injury on the anchor leg of the 4x100 metres relay final at the World Athletics Championship as the last race of his unparalleled career ended in high drama.
Farah falls short in final race
Mo Farah's aura of invincibility after six years of unrelenting success was finally cracked in his last major track race as he lost his world 5000m title to Ethiopia's Muktar Edris.
Willis does enough to make final
Nick Willis has snuck into the final of the 1500m at the World Athletics Championships after claiming one of the two fastest non-automatic times.