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13 October 2012 - Monaco - To mark today’s public opening of the IAAF Centenary Historic Exhibition in the Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch, Barcelona, Spain, (Saturday 13 October to Sunday 25 November 2012), the IAAF is delighted to announce that High Jump legends Iolanda Balas (Romania) and Stefka Kostadinova (Bulgaria) are to b...

6 October 2012 – Kavarna, Bulgaria – Zersenay Tadese lived up to his moniker of ‘Mr. Half Marathon’ after collecting his fifth World road running title at the 20th World Half Marathon Championships in Kavarna, Bulgaria, today....

6 October 2012 – Kavarna, Bulgaria – Battling against warm and humid conditions, Meseret Hailu led Ethiopia to an upset victory in the team race with her surprise triumph at the 20th edition of the World Half Marathon Championships in Kavarna, Bulgaria....

5 October 2012 - Moscow, Russia – The opening of ticket sales for the IAAF World Championships, Moscow 2013, were announced yesterday (4 Oct) by the Local Organising Committee at a press conference in the Russian capital....

19 September 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden – Three-time World Heptathlon champion. 2004 Olympic gold medallist and twice-European champion. With 7032 points, the World all-time No. 2 and European record holder. Those are just a handful of superlatives that Carolina Klüft collected over a decade-long international career, one which officially came to end...

Jessica Ennis's coach thinks that she will continue her career in the heptathlon to defend her Olympic title in Rio 2016....

17 September 2012 - Monaco - The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is delighted to announce that, with the support of IAAF Marketing Partner Dentsu, the Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has signed an agreement to continue as an official partner of the IAAF World Championships until 2017....

8 September 2012 - Rieti, Italy - Eight London Olympic gold medallists will take part in the Rieti IAAF World Challenge meeting at the Raul Guidobaldi Stadium on Sunday 9 September....

7 September 2012 - Brussels, Belgium – With a jaw-dropping display from the gun, Olympic champion Aries Merritt of the U.S. shattered the World record in the 110m Hurdles clocking 12.80 at the Memorial van Damme in Brussels, the final leg of the 2012 Samsung Diamond League series....

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah withdraws from the Great North Run, saying the last few weeks have "taken their toll"....

4 September 2012 - After winning an Olympic silver medal, Mitchell Watt decides to head home early, buy a house, and build the foundations for 2013....

2 September 2012 - Berlin, Germany - Six Olympic champions in individual events were competing at the ISTAF in the Berlin Olympic Stadium on Sunday and three of them were victorious at this IAAF World Challenge Meeting....

2 September 2012 - Ezekiel Chebii shattered the course record at the Lille Half Marathon on Saturday (1)....

30 August 2012 - Zürich, Switzerland – Usain Bolt’s 19.66 meeting record in the 200m and Mohammed Aman’s dramatic upset victory over David Rudisha were just a pair of the highlights at the Weltklasse Zurich on Thursday, the first of two Samsung Diamond League finals for 2012....

29 August 2012 – Zürich, Switzerland – Competing before an energized capacity crowd at Zurich’s main trains station, Valerie Adams and Reese Hoffa won their respective Shot Put competitions tonight while each capturing the 2012 Samsung Diamond Race in the event....

Jamaica's Yohan Blake targets another fast time when he competes in the 100m at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich....

29 August 2012 – Zürich, Switzerland – As he prepares for his final race of the season, David Rudisha can be forgiven for not making any promises that he’ll be making an assault on his own World record in the 800m at the Weltklasse meeting here tomorrow night....

An official adjudicating at an athletics event dies after being speared in the throat by a javelin in the German town of Dusseldorf....

27 August 2012 – Stockholm, Sweden - One hundred years ago on 24-25 August the Swedish National Championships were for the very first time staged at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium that had been built for the 1912 Games. Of course this extraordinary centenary had to be celebrated by staging the 2012 National Championships at the same venue....

27 August 2012 - Zürich, Switzerland - Provisional entry lists for Thursday's (30 August) Weltklasse Zürich Meeting, the penultimate stop of the 2012 Samsung Diamond League series, are now available. The first 17 Diamond Trophy winners for the 2012 series will be crowned on an action-packed programme that will feature 15 recently-minted Olympic c...