Renaud Lavillenie has done it! And what a way to break the pole vault world record before the eyes of the previous holder, Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars European Athletics Permit Meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Saturday.

Whatever Valeria Straneo achieves in the rest of her career, nothing may match that feeling when she was on the podium at the IAAF World Championships last summer after winning silver in the marathon.

The Prague Indoor Permit Meeting on February 25,  a test event for next year’s European Athletics Indoor Championships at the 02 Arena, has made a few changes to its programme. And it means the people of the Czech Republic will be able to se...

The words on his twitter feed were ‘Direction Donetsk’ and there is only ‘one direction’ that Renaud Lavillenie wants to go this weekend.

As the indoor season hots up in the weeks before the IAAF World Championships in Sopot, each event will give a little clue as to who might win gold. But in Birmingham, England, on Saturday, the long jump will be a pointer to the summer as muc...

The word “legacy” has become something of a buzzword in sport recently, with much being made of the potential for major sporting events to have a lasting impact on the cities and nations that host them. Yet this is nothing new, as Malta&rsq...