Very sad news. Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend, a Ugandan official says.

In celebration of the one-year countdown to the 東京2025世界陸上/World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, the local organising committee has announced the marathon and race walk courses that will take place on the 13, 14, 15 and 20 September 2025 🙌 Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3XGLX6E

In 2021, I promised the people of Tokyo that we would be back in this vibrant city and that we would fill its Olympic stadium with fans. I am thrilled that we have been able to deliver on my words and that we are back in the Japanese capital for the World Athletics Championships

The calendar and the allocation of disciplines for the 2025 Wanda Wanda Diamond League season have now been published. #DiamondLeague news ⬇️

It’s official! 📣 Say hello to our athlete ambassadors 👋 🏅 Haruka Kitaguchi: Javelin 🏅 Abdul Hakim Sani Brown: 100m 🏅 Nozomi Tanaka: Middle and long-distance running 🏅 Asuka Terada: 100m hurdles 🏅 Yuki Hashioka: Long Jump Ready to light up Tokyo in 2025! ✨ #WATokyo25

World Athletics was named Elite Organisation of the Year at the BBC Green Sport Awards in London on Monday, in recognition of its ambitious initiatives to encourage and demonstrate action on environmental and climate change issues over the past year. Press release

Support - Seek it when you need it, give it when you can. #WorldMentalHealthDay

“This new global event will be a game-changer for our sport and for our athletes” - Seb Coe Don’t miss anything on the World Athletics Ultimate Championship 🔗 bit.ly/3ZeRVfH #UltimateAthletics

Everything you need to know about the World Athletics Ultimate Championship 👀 #UltimateAthletics

Exciting morning in Budapest today for the reveal of the World Athletics Ultimate Championship. This new global event will be a game-changer for our sport and for our athletes. We want to bring our fans athletics like they have never seen it before – with the best of the best

It was a pleasure to visit the Tata Communications Headquarters in Mumbai today for a media roundtable on tech and innovation to kick off our new broadcast agreement with Tata. This is an exciting time for athletics which has this year continued to grow with extraordinary reach

Happy holidays ⭐️ We wish you a festive season as exciting as this past year of athletics 🥳

World Athletics today launched a new consultation process on its eligibility conditions for the Female Category and the current DSD regulations and Transgender Regulations. The eligibility guidelines are being updated to reflect the latest developments in science, sport and law.

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

Singing O Canada loud and proud after winning the #4Nations Face-Off. 🇨🇦 What a feeling.

Good to have you back.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, and to build on progress to date, World Athletics has announced its key focus areas for the next three years to empower women, promote sustainable change, and position athletics as a global model for equity and inclusion.

“I’d tell that young girl to run her race and jump her hurdles because someone else might be on a different track to you." Watch as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shares her story to inspire the next generation of athletes as we celebrate #InternationalWomensDay 🙌 Full #WeGrowAthletics video 🔗

On a trip to Kenya this week, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe met with leaders to assess and discuss the progress being made in tackling gender-based violence and femicide. Press release 🔗 bit.ly/41AWyAG

Great to be in Nanjing for our first major Championships of 2025 #WorldIndoorChamps The first of a three-year journey through China’s capital cities with Guangzhou, Yangzhou, and Beijing lining up behind. 🇨🇳 📍Thank you as always to the 500 supremely talented athletes from 120