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Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF) President Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad (centre), flanked by Mohammed Al Kuwari, Secretary General, QAF, and Fahad Al Hajri, Media...

DOHA: All eyes will be on Qatar’s London Olympic Games hero high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim who will lead the home athletes at...

  DOHA: The Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF) yesterday unveiled its new logo and acronym.  Formerly Qatar Association of Athletics Federation (QAAF), the new logo...

PARIS: The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) yesterday announced that a re-testing of samples from the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki has revealed six...

MOSCOW: Former Soviet pole vault great Sergei Bubka has predicted that Russian legend Yelena Isinbayeva will cap her glittering career with success at...

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: Three-time Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner and reigning world indoor shot put champion Ryan Whiting won landmark titles yesterday at the...

LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear Japanese athlete Koji Murofushi’s appeal against his exclusion as a candidate for election...

OTSU, Japan: Kenya’s Vincent Kipruto emerged victorious in a shoulder-to-shoulder battle against Tariku Jufar of Ethiopia in the last 200 metres to win...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden: Olympic champion Jenn Suhr lit up the US indoor athletics championships yesterday by leaping 5.02 metres to set a new women’s...

LOS ANGELES: Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah appeared perplexed but kept his poise after being asked by a New Orleans television presenter...

PARIS: Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt (pictured) has been signed up to run the 200m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris in...

Sydney: World 100m freestyle champion James Magnussen -- who led the much-vaunted 4x100m Australian relay team which bombed spectacularly at the 2012 Olympics...

  KINGSTON: Jamaican sprint hero Usain Bolt continued his low-key early-season programme yesterday, running in the heats of the 4x400m relay at the Gibson...

  Sao Paulo: Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will compete in a 150 metres race on Brazil’s Copacabana Beach next month against three other...

PARIS: Oscar Pistorius was drug-tested before and during last year’s Paralympic Games in London, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said yesterday, adding that...

New York: Bernard Lagat ran the fastest indoor two-mile race by an American and Lopez Lomong became the second fastest US miler as...

London: Olympic sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was upstaged on her indoor debut by Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure who took victory over 60 metres...

  Henke Pistorius (second left) father of South African paralympic and Olympic sprinter, Oscar Pistorius (right) reaches out to touch his son at the...