Beijing has been selected to host the 2027 World Athletics Championships, governing body World Athletics said on Wednesday.

Fiji Athletics is hoping to get more athletes interested to participate in the Oceania Athletics meet.

Athletics Fiji national coach Albert Miller says a handful of athletes for have been identified to represent the country at the Oceania Athletics Championship in Suva this year.

Team Fiji athlete Yeshnil Karan has set a new personal best in the 1500 meters at an athletics meet in Brisbane.

Team Fiji sprinter Waisake Tewa will represent the country at the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland next month.

Fiji athletics representative Braelynn Yee has been awarded the Griffith University Oceania Australia Foundation Athletics Business Scholarship.

Pacific Games and Fiji’s long distance champion Yeshnil Karan has hopes of qualifying for the Paris Olympic Games alive.

More than 250 athletes from 13 Pacific nations including Fiji will be supported by the Australian government as they prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach Gervais Hakizimana died in a traffic accident on Sunday, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on social media platform X.

Former world champion sprinter James Magnussen has agreed to come out of retirement and undertake a course of banned supplements to try to break the long-standing world record in the 50-metre freestyle.

Spain’s world 5,000 metres silver medallist Mo Katir has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for missing three doping tests in the past year.

Shawn Barber, the Canadian record holder and 2015 world champion in pole vault, has died at the age of 29.