Athletics

For the fifth time in four months, Eliza McCartney has broken her own national pole-vault record and set a new mark in Oceania.

The Canterbury shot-putter Tom Walsh hit the record books at the Auckland Track Challenge.

Eliza McCartney has added four new New Zealand records to the books at the opening of the AUT Millennium pole vault facility.

Kenya faces a race against time to show the World Anti-Doping Agency that it's tackling cheating in athletics or it could face expulsion from major competitions.

Swiss food giant Nestle will end its partnership with the International Athletics Federations because of the scandal surrounding the sport.

Adidas is to end its global athletics sponsorship deal almost four years early because of the scandal surrounding the sport.

The corruption scandal that has rocked athletics is worse than the one that has plunged FIFA into crisis because it punished clean athletes, Michael Johnson said.

Young New Zealand pole vaulter Eliza McCartney has broken her own national record at a meeting in Brisbane.

Auckland pole vaulter Eliza McCartney has broken the world Under-20 record at an athletics meet at Mt Smart Stadium.

World athletics chief Sebastian Coe has denied allegations of a conflict of interest over his ties with Nike and his role in the 2021 championships being awarded to the sportswear company's home…

The head of world athletics Lord Sebastian Coe faces fresh allegations about his involvement in the controversial awarding of the 2021 world championships to the American city of Eugene.

The World Anti-Doping Agency continued to crack down on Russian drug cheats by suspending the country's anti-doping agency amid calls to extend investigations to other countries and sports.

The first signs of a compromise that would allow Russia to compete at next year's Rio Olympics have already emerged.

The president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, Sebastian Coe, says world athletics is in a shameful situation.

An athlete at the centre of the doping and corruption scandal engulfing Russian athletics says punishment should be meted out to officials, and not competitors.

New Zealand's leading runner Nick Willis has mixed feelings about banning Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics but believes it could be the only way forward.

Russia should be banned from athletics competition because of widespread doping offences, the World Anti-Doping Agency has recommended.

Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption and money laundering.