Fiji athletics representative Braelynn Yee continues to shine on and off the track after being selected for the Griffith Asia Business Internship 2025 while studying at Griffith University in Australia.

Two World Athletics employees and a contracted consultant systematically stole more than 1.5 million euros ($1.75 million) from the organisation over several years in a theft uncovered during an audit, the sport’s governing body said on Thursday.

Climate change is one of the toughest opponents facing any athlete, warns Brazilian soccer player Tamires Dias, one of around 40 elite sportsmen and women involved in the launch of a new global campaign that will feature at next month’s COP30 summit in her country.

Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been banned for three years after admitting a doping violation, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said overnight.

Just two days after laying their head teacher Lasarusa Senibale to rest, students of Suva Methodist Primary School took to the tracks today at the Suva Zone One Primary School Athletics.

Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo dominated the men’s field in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, breaking the tape in two hours, two minutes and 23 seconds in his second race over the distance, while Ethiopian Hawi Feysa enjoyed a lopsided win in the women’s race.

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee senior administrator Jane Wong Niubalavu has achieved a milestone after graduating in Lausanne, Switzerland, with the International Olympic Committee Certificate for Safeguarding Officer in Sport.

Botswana has declared a public holiday to celebrate its team’s gold medal in the men’s 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo to become the first African winners of the event.

Noah Lyles scorched to a fourth successive world 200 metres gold on Friday as he delivered his trademark drive to the line to triumph in 19.52 seconds, pipping compatriot and perennial bridesmaid Kenny Bednarek, who took silver in 19.58.

American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden capped a dominant season in some style on Sunday by winning the women’s 100 metres world title in 10.61 seconds, the fastest time ever run at a world championships and the fourth quickest of all time.

Alphonce Felix Simbu snatched gold in the first photo finish at a major championship marathon on Monday, edging out German Amanal Petros in a dramatic race to the line to give Tanzania its maiden world title.

Oblique Seville scorched to the world 100 metres gold in a personal best 9.77 seconds on Sunday, leading a Jamaican 1-2 ahead of Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, second again in 9.82.