Olympic champions Camryn Rogers and Masai Russell will be among the headline names at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix on 13-14 June, as the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series continues with a meeting packed with stars of the sport.
Almost every discipline on the programme features at least one global champion, with strong fields assembled across the sprints, hurdles, throws, jumps and middle-distance events. But few contests look deeper than the women&rsquo;s hammer, which takes place on Saturday (13), on the eve of the main programme.
One week after producing one of the deepest women&rsquo;s hammer competitions in history, the world&rsquo;s leading throwers will clash again in Los Angeles. The field brings together the top nine performers from last weekend&rsquo;s contest of record depth at the Lone Star Grand Prix in College Station, including all podium placers from the past four global championships.
World and Olympic champion Camryn Rogers extended her winning streak in College Station with 79.36m, but the Canadian was pushed all the way by USA&rsquo;s Rachel Richeson, who improved her PB to 79.33m to finish just three centimetres behind Rogers.
Rogers, who has thrown beyond 80 metres three times this year, will once again face a field of global medallists in Los Angeles. China&rsquo;s world silver medallist Zhao Jie and world bronze medallist Zhang Jiale are set to compete, along with 2022 world champion Brooke Andersen, 2019 world champion DeAnna Price, 2023 world silver medallist Janee&rsquo; Kassanavoid and Olympic silver medallist Annette Echikunwoke.
Olympic champion Masai Russell will contest the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles, having reduced her own North American record to 12.14 in Xiamen last month.
She faces world bronze medallist Grace Stark, USA&rsquo;s 12.24 performer Tonea Marshall, two-time world champion Danielle Williams, former world record-holder Kendra Harrison and Olympic silver medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France.
World and Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall will double up in Los Angeles, contesting the 100m hurdles as well as the long jump. Her appearance in the long jump will be her first competition in that event in 2026, and she will face 2025 world indoor champion Claire Bryant and 2024 world indoor silver medallist Monae&rsquo; Nichols.
<h2>Sprint fields loaded with global champions</h2>
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo lines up in the men&rsquo;s 100m, where he will face world and Olympic 200m silver medallist Kenny Bednarek, world indoor bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell and 2019 world champion Christian Coleman.
Bromell heads to Los Angeles off the back of victory at the Lone Star Grand Prix, where he clocked a wind-assisted 9.85 to beat a high-quality field. Bednarek, meanwhile, has already shown strong form over 200m this season, including a 19.69 victory at the Rabat Diamond League.
In the women&rsquo;s 100m, 2023 world champion Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson takes on Cambrea Sturgis, Tamari Davis and Nigeria&rsquo;s Favour Ofili.
The men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles also features recent winners from the global circuit. World champion Cordell Tinch faces Trey Cunningham, who won at the Rome Diamond League in a PB and world-leading 12.98, and in-form Jamal Britt.
The men&rsquo;s 400m brings together 2025 world indoor champion Chris Bailey and 2025 world indoor bronze medallist Jacory Patterson. Bailey won at the Lone Star Grand Prix in a season&rsquo;s best of 44.35, while Patterson won at the Rabat Diamond League in a season&rsquo;s best of 44.11. Patterson, who has a PB of 43.85 from last year, is joined by Grenada&rsquo;s Kirani James, owner of a full set of world and Olympic medals at 400m, who will be opening his season.
Nigeria&rsquo;s Ella Onojuvwevwo leads the women&rsquo;s 400m entries after winning at the Lone Star Grand Prix in a PB of 49.47. She faces Aaliyah Butler, who has dipped under 50 seconds in her past two races.
In the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell, 2016 Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad, world finalist Gianna Woodruff, 2023 world silver medallist Shamier Little and Asian record-holder Kemi Adekoya are set to race.
<h2>World champions set to star in throws and distances</h2>
World and Olympic champion Ethan Katzberg heads the men&rsquo;s hammer field. The Canadian, whose sole competition so far this year was an 82.43m victory in Nairobi in April, will face Olympic bronze medallist Mykhaylo Kokhan and US record-holder Rudy Winkler.
The women&rsquo;s shot put features two-time world champion Chase Jackson, two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton and world indoor bronze medallist Axelina Johansson.
In the women&rsquo;s discus, world and Olympic champion Valarie Sion takes on world silver medallist Jorinde van Klinken and 2023 world champion Laulauga Tausaga.
The men&rsquo;s shot put line-up includes two-time world champion Joe Kovacs, Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell and 2022 world bronze medallist Josh Awotunde.
USA&rsquo;s Cole Hocker will contest the men&rsquo;s 3000m. The Olympic 1500m champion and world 5000m champion faces South Africa&rsquo;s Tshepo Tshite.
The men&rsquo;s 800m includes two-time world indoor 3000m champion Josh Kerr, 2019 world champion Donavan Brazier, NACAC champion Handal Roban and Japanese record-holder Ko Ochiai.
In the women&rsquo;s 1500m, Shanghai Diamond League winner Birke Haylom lines up alongside fellow Ethiopian Worknesh Mesele, an Olympic 800m finalist, and USA&rsquo;s world indoor 3000m silver medallist Emily Mackay.

Olympic champions Camryn Rogers and Masai Russell will be among the headline names at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix on 13-14 June

Olympic champions Rogers and Russell face tough opposition at Los Angeles Grand Prix

World finalist Ja&rsquo;Kobe Tharp produced a stunning 12.75 run to break the world 110m hurdles record* at the NCAA Championships in Eugene on Wednesday (10).
What made the feat all the more surprising was the fact it came in the heats. The Auburn student powered out of the blocks and executed a flawless run, pulling further ahead of the field after each barrier before charging through the line in 12.75 (1.0m/s), taking 0.05 off the world record set by Aries Merritt in 2012.
Tharp, still just 20 years of age, won the world U20 title in 2024 and then won the NCAA indoor and outdoor titles one year later. He also won at the US Championships last year with a PB of 13.01 before going on to finish sixth in the World Championships final.
He is undefeated in individual races this year, including heats, and in March he retained his NCAA indoor title with a world-leading 7.32, elevating him to third on the world all-time list. He continued that momentum outdoors with a string of victories on the US collegiate circuit.
The 110m hurdles final at the NCAA Championships takes place on Friday (12).
The second day of the championships on Thursday (11) saw British Virgin Islands' Adaejah Hodge storm to fifth on the world all-time list for the 100m, clocking 10.63 (1.9m/s) in the first round. The world U20 200m champion and 100m silver medallist, running for Georgia, improved on her previous national record of 10.77 set in April. Shawnti Jackson ran a PB of 10.88 in the same heat. The final will be held on Saturday (13).
Hodge returned to the track to lead performances in the 200m heats, clocking 21.96 (1.7m/s).
Also on Thursday, Stanford's Alyssa Jones soared 7.06m (0.2m/s) to win the long jump, while Washington's Amanda Moll cleared an outdoor world lead and US collegiate record of 4.84m to win the pole vault.
*Subject to the usual ratification procedure

World finalist Ja’Kobe Tharp produced a stunning 12.75 run to break the world 110m hurdles record* at the NCAA Championships in Eugene

Tharp breaks world 110m hurdles record in Eugene

Narrow wins by Cooper Lutkenhaus and Timothy Cheruiyot, sprint victories by Julien Alfred and Letsile Tebogo, and statement triumphs by Chase Jackson and Alison dos Santos highlighted the Wanda Diamond League action in Oslo on Wednesday (10).
An 800m battle between the world and Olympic champion and the world indoor champion ended in a photo finish as Lutkenhaus made it two out of two for Diamond League victories.
The US world indoor champion won his Diamond League debut in Stockholm in 1:42.70 &ndash; then the fastest outdoor time in the world this year &ndash; and just three days later he emulated that performance at the Bislett Games in Oslo, running a world-leading PB of 1:42.08 to move to joint 14th on the world all-time list.
The 17-year-old tracked two-time global gold medallist Emmanuel Wanyonyi for the first lap, waiting for his moment to strike. Lutkenhaus kicked past his rival with 200 metres to go but Wanyonyi fought back &ndash; finishing just a hundredth of a second back as Lutkenhaus dived over the line to narrowly miss the meeting record of 1:42.04 set by world record-holder David Rudisha in 2010.
Marco Arop, who finished second to Lutkenhaus in Stockholm &ndash; a meeting that Wanyonyi missed following the birth of his first child &ndash; was third this time in 1:43.33.
"It was a very tough race and I had to dive for the line to be sure of the win," said&nbsp;Lutkenhaus. "I knew he (Wanyonyi) was on my shoulder and I was willing the line to come towards me.
"To beat the Olympic champion is awesome and it means a lot. I have not seen the grazes yet from my dive but I think they will hurt in the shower later."
Kenya&rsquo;s Cheruiyot dipped to his first Diamond League win since 2021, the 2019 world 1500m champion beating a stacked field in the Dream Mile. In another photo finish, both Cheruiyot and Yared Nuguse clocked 3:48.21 &ndash; the fastest outdoor time in the world so far this year &ndash; but after winning the 1500m from Cameron Myers and Cheruiyot in Stockholm, Olympic bronze medallist&nbsp;Nuguse had to settle for second place this time. Myers was third in 3:48.35 and the top 10 all finished inside 3:50.
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<h2>Alfred, Tebogo and Dos Santos in control</h2>
Botswana&rsquo;s Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo cruised to his first Diamond League win of the season, clocking a season&rsquo;s best of 19.84 (0.2m/s) in the 200m despite easing down on his approach to the finish line.
Sinesipho Dambile was second in Stockholm and he repeated the feat in Oslo, running 20.12 this time. Jereem Richards was third in 20.50 and Gout Gout &ndash; who ran a world lead and world U20 record of 19.67 in April &ndash; finished sixth on his Diamond League debut in 20.60.
Saint Lucia&rsquo;s Olympic champion Julien Alfred picked up from where she left off last year &ndash; powering to victory in her first Diamond League 100m since her win in the final in September. Dominating the race, she ran a wind-assisted 10.76 (3.2m/s) ahead of world 200m silver medallist Amy Hunt (10.99) and Zoe Hobbs (11.03).
Brazil&rsquo;s 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos won his fourth hurdles race of the year &ndash; and his third head-to-head against home star Karsten Warholm &ndash; taking the 400m hurdles in 46.89. Dos Santos beat the world record-holder in Shanghai and Xiamen, and then won a promotional race in Stockholm, and he maintained that form to win clearly again in the 10th-fastest time of his career. Warholm, who hit an early barrier, finished second in 47.40.
Slovak record-holder Emma Zapletalov&aacute; also continued her strong start to the season, winning her third Diamond League 400m hurdles race of the year in 53.13. Rushell Clayton went one better than in Rabat and Rome, finishing second in 53.50.
<h2>Meeting record for Jackson</h2>
World indoor champion Chase Jackson turned the tables on world champion Jessica Schilder in the shot put, throwing a meeting record of 20.74m to clinch her first Diamond League win of the season. After finishing runner-up to Schilder in Shanghai and Stockholm, USA's Jackson showed she meant business by throwing her winning mark in the first round. The performance is just 21 centimetres off her own US record and improves the meeting record of 20.26m set by Valerie Adams in 2011. Schilder, who threw a Diamond League record of 21.09m in Shanghai, was second this time with 20.11m.
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Freweyni Hailu threatened the meeting record in the 3000m, rebounding after her third-place finish in the 5000m in Rome by winning in a world-leading 8:24.22, 0.02 off the record. She led an Ethiopian top four and was followed home by Rome winner Likina Amebaw in 8:25.15, Senayet Getachew in a PB of 8:25.85, Hawi Abera in a PB of 8:27.18 and Netherlands&rsquo; Maureen Koster in 8:27.67.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Addisu Yihune held off the fast-finishing Birhanu Balew of Bahrain to win the 5000m, running a world-leading PB of 12:47.62 to Balew&rsquo;s Asian record of 12:47.73. Yihune, who also won the Diamond League in Xiamen, took two seconds off his previous best, which was also run in Oslo in 2024. World 10,000m bronze medallist Andreas Almgren was third in 12:48.61 and Parker Wolfe took almost 10 seconds off his PB with 12:49.45 for fourth. The top 11 dipped under 13 minutes, including Australia&rsquo;s Ky Robinson who improved the Oceanian record to 12:50.82.
Henriette J&aelig;ger delighted the home fans in the first international race of the evening, winning the 400m in a season&rsquo;s best of 49.52, just 0.03 off the PB she set when finishing third in last year&rsquo;s Diamond League final. The 2025 world indoor bronze medallist ran unchallenged, finishing clear ahead of world indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel (50.13) and multiple global medallist Natalia Bukowiecka (50.34).
Australia&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall won the pole vault in Stockholm, handing Mondo Duplantis his first defeat in almost three years. Duplantis wasn&rsquo;t among his rivals in Oslo but Marschall doubled his number of career Diamond League victories, securing top spot again with a clearance of 5.82m. Norway&rsquo;s Sondre Guttormsen was second on countback with a best of 5.72m.
Former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie became the first athlete to make 100 Diamond League appearances. The seven-time Diamond League champion, who made his series debut in 2010, finished ninth on 5.42m.
After winning in Xiamen with a Diamond League record and the second-best javelin performance in history of 71.74m, China&rsquo;s Yan Ziyi secured another win in her first Diamond League meeting outside of China. The 18-year-old threw 67.11m. from her opening attempt and that proved more than enough for victory. She followed it with 64.81m in the second round before passing her remaining attempts. Norway&rsquo;s Sigrid Borge was second with 61.92m from the fifth round.
Jamaica&rsquo;s world indoor silver medallist Jordan Scott beat the two athletes who joined him on the world indoor triple jump podium in Poland &ndash; champion Andy D&iacute;az and bronze medallist Yasser Triki &ndash; by leaping a wind-assisted 17.66m (2.6m/s). D&iacute;az was just seven centimetres off that mark and so secured second place ahead of Triki with a wind-aided 17.43m (2.4m/s).
Davisleydi Velazco soared to her first Diamond League triple jump win, leaping a wind-assisted 14.85m (2.3m/s) in the first round. World indoor bronze medallist Saly Sarr was just 10 centimetres off that mark with a wind-legal jump in the fifth round but Velazco held on to top spot as her Cuban compatriot Leyanis P&eacute;rez, the world champion, completed the top three with 14.60m (2.2m/s).
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/calendar-results/7214020/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
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Narrow wins by Cooper Lutkenhaus and Timothy Cheruiyot, sprint victories by Julien Alfred and Letsile Tebogo, and statement triumphs by Chase Jackson and Alison dos Santos highlighted the Wanda Diamond League action in Oslo

Lutkenhaus and Cheruiyot win brilliant battles in Oslo

As the countdown to the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest continues, we launch a new series featuring&nbsp;some of the best coaches in the world behind the Ultimate athletes.
Up first is Canada's former triple jumper Edrick Floreal, the brains behind the likes of Julien Alfred and Michael Norman.
<h3>How would you describe yourself as a coach?</h3>
I&rsquo;m more of a sports science guy, so it&rsquo;s a lot of details. If athletes don&rsquo;t buy into that, I&rsquo;m wasting my time. The process of improving an athlete is not just one way &ndash; it&rsquo;s multifaceted. But, it&rsquo;s really on the athlete &ndash; you have to have a great athlete to buy into that plan. Athletes have to take the steps to do it. I can&rsquo;t force coach you. I can yell, scream and shout and, if you walk away and don&rsquo;t work on diet, hydration, sits-ups, it&rsquo;s pointless. Coaching is so much about finding the right personalities that match &ndash; not every athlete will match a certain coach.
<h3>What makes a good coach-athlete relationship?</h3>
Let&rsquo;s say you and I decide to drive to California. You have to map it all out: how much money for gas, planning out the route. The coach is kind of the planner of the trip and the athlete sort of goes along. If they&rsquo;re a good athlete, they&rsquo;ll go along. The best partnership between an athlete and a coach is that it&rsquo;s 2am and the coach is behind the computer trying to figure out what to change to win the next gold medal and the athlete is sound asleep. If the athlete is doing the research, the partnership is broken because ultimately the athlete needs to sit in the passenger seat while I do the driving.
<h3>It&rsquo;s not a one-size-fits-all methodology, is it?</h3>
My goal for some of them is not all the same and it can&rsquo;t be the same. Some athletes I&rsquo;ve got to convince to do less because they overwork and get injured, some athletes I have to convince to do more. Some athletes I have to convince them to have a balanced social life. You can&rsquo;t go home and look at the TV, waiting for the next session. You have to find something &ndash; take a sculpture class, do something for a few hours that takes you away from the demands and frustrations of a bad or good session.
<h3>Is there such a thing as a typical training day?</h3>
Every day is a little bit different. If you take the sprints, some days you&rsquo;re doing double days, maybe a lifting session in the morning and then another session in the afternoon. The lifting one is about an hour and five or 10 minutes max including warm-up and recovery, and the speed session in the afternoon is 45 minutes. You can&rsquo;t do as much when you&rsquo;re doing faster stuff, you&rsquo;re never going to get a lot of repetition as the load required is so hard on the muscles. But then some days are complete recovery, physio, massage, hot tub, cold tub and that has to be taken as seriously as the speed session as that enables you to come back the next day and work hard again. I&rsquo;d say recovery is probably the most important thing because on it all others depend. If you&rsquo;re fatigued, you can&rsquo;t practise, but a well-recovered athlete can be pushed.
<h3>Has coaching changed?</h3>
You&rsquo;re a sports psychologist, you&rsquo;re a mum, you&rsquo;re a dad. The secret sauce is to know when to be who to who, when to decide that this athlete had a bad session, you know to go home and sort themselves out. Some days I have to let them figure it out themselves.
<h3>Is your coaching philosophy still changing?</h3>
I&rsquo;m doing things now I said I'd never do. I&rsquo;m more inclined to just rest and recover. When I was younger, I was more into the level of work. That&rsquo;s changed. Take a workout where we&rsquo;re supposed to do three 200s at X pace, but the athlete is flying on the first two so I stop. I don&rsquo;t know what happens after that and I don&rsquo;t want to find out. I have no desire to find out. What&rsquo;s the point? As a young coach, I&rsquo;d written it down, so I was going to do it but, as an old coach, I want to come back the next day, I don&rsquo;t have to be stuck with what I wrote down.
<h3>How do you get an athlete like Julien Alfred to peak for a few days of the year, such as for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship?</h3>
Would I rather have her in the best shape of her life with injury or 95% because I was cautious on the line? Showing up to the line healthy is probably the most important thing &ndash; you don&rsquo;t want an athlete in world record shape with an injury sitting at home. You can&rsquo;t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Maybe with Julien Alfred the last time in Budapest, I broke too many eggs. You&rsquo;re pushing and shoving and sometimes you push too far. You have to go back as a coach and say, oh man, I wish I held back a couple of those sessions. Then I have to question everything because ultimately, I&rsquo;m responsible because I made those decisions. When things go wrong with an athlete, it&rsquo;s my fault. It has to be, it was all my decision: 200s, 150s, day-offs, meets. From year to year, I&rsquo;ve got to keep reassessing.
<h3>How do you coach year-on-year success with an elite athlete?</h3>
It takes a certain athlete. I&rsquo;m not devaluing coaches. If you stay too long in the Olympic moment, you find yourself not making the finals of the next championships. It&rsquo;s easier for the athletes who&rsquo;ve had disappointing years to then be successful. It&rsquo;s tougher for the athlete who has had a great year. It&rsquo;s not that they lack motivation but, if you&rsquo;re starving, you&rsquo;ll eat just about anything but, with the buffet line in front of me, you&rsquo;re just confused.
<h3>Do you need humour as a coach?</h3>
At times, yes. I think it&rsquo;s a balance. Some sessions, because of the danger of the session if you&rsquo;re pulling someone at sub-world-record pace, we can&rsquo;t be screwing around. One slight mistake, the season&rsquo;s going to be over. But if we&rsquo;re doing a recovery or lifting light, yeah, those sessions should be brought down. It should be light, fun, we should be laughing, joking and poking fun at each other.
<h3>Is there an ultimate workout where you know an athlete is ready for a major championships?</h3>
Those sessions are completely bogus. You can have terrible sessions and a great competition, and the other way around. It&rsquo;s like a lucky pair of underwear. You really think red underwear&rsquo;s going to help you win the Olympics?! You think that three poached eggs for breakfast will equal the world record?! It&rsquo;s like dudes, it doesn&rsquo;t really work like that.&nbsp;
<h3>Is it difficult that as a coach, you&rsquo;re always striving for perfection but that&rsquo;s never achieved?</h3>
If you run the perfect race, what&rsquo;s next? You have to retire. You don&rsquo;t want that perfect race. Almost as a coach you need things to go wrong to go back and fix because when everything is fine and an athlete runs, say, 10.99, you&rsquo;re like that&rsquo;s it, we&rsquo;re done. You want to say the block was awful, the acceleration rushed, it was terrible here and there, then go back and work in practice. So, you&rsquo;re chasing something they don&rsquo;t ever reach and hoping to never reach as it&rsquo;s the end game.

World Athletics Ultimate Championship

For a new series leading up to Budapest, we talk to some of the best coaches in the world behind the Ultimate athletes. Up first is former triple jumper Edrick Floreal, the brains behind the likes of Julien Alfred and Michael Norman.

Coaching class with Edrick Floreal

Athletissima will feature a thrilling 200m clash between Letsile Tebogo and Gout Gout at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 21 August.
Tebogo lit up Lausanne&rsquo;s Pontaise Stadium two years ago with a stunning 19.64 victory. It came just two weeks after the sprinter from Botswana won the Olympic title in Paris with an African record of 19.46.
Australian teenage prodigy Gout set a world U20 record of 19.67 in April. The 18-year-old has faced Tebogo only once so far, in the semi-finals of the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, where Tebogo came out on top.
The women&rsquo;s 800m is also shaping up to be one of the highlights of the evening. Following her incredible 1:53.98 performance on Sunday in Stockholm &ndash; the third-fastest time in world history &ndash; Audrey Werro will compete in front of a home crowd with the ambition of producing another unforgettable moment.

Athletissima will feature a thrilling 200m clash between Letsile Tebogo and Gout Gout

Tebogo set to take on Gout in Lausanne

Switzerland&rsquo;s Audrey Werro has been announced for the Ostrava Golden Spike, where the in-form 22-year-old will line up in the women&rsquo;s 800m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting on 16 June.
Werro heads to Ostrava off the back of a sensational run in Stockholm on Sunday, where she clocked 1:53.98 to move to No.3 on the world all-time list.
She is set to face two-time world champion Femke Broeders-Bol, who earlier this year confirmed her switch in focus to the 800m and is due to contest the first outdoor 800m of her career in Ostrava.
The meeting is also set to welcome world and Olympic champion Noah Lyles, who is set to take on Australian teenage sensation Gout Gout in the 150m. Organisers have billed it as one of the headline match-ups of the meeting, alongside the women&rsquo;s 800m.
Among the other athletes announced for the meeting are world indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel, who is due to contest the flat 400m against Slovakia&rsquo;s 400m hurdles world leader Emma Zapletalov&aacute;.
Cameroon&rsquo;s Emmanuel Eseme, USA&rsquo;s Chris Robinson, Brazil&rsquo;s Matheus Lima and Switzerland&rsquo;s Jason Joseph are also among the recent international additions. Czech sprinter Karol&iacute;na Maňasov&aacute;, who recently broke the long-standing national 100m record, is one of the many home athletes due to compete.

Switzerland’s Audrey Werro has been announced for the Ostrava Golden Spike

Werro joins Broeders-Bol for 800m clash in Ostrava

Usain Bolt remains the world record-holder for both the 100m and 200m. The Jamaican sprint great is the Ultimate Legend for the first&nbsp;World Athletics Ultimate Championship and ahead of the event we put him on the spot to find out... What's your Ultimate?
Ultimate performance... 9.58 for the 100m and 19.19 for the 200m in Berlin in 2009.
Ultimate event (bar your own)... The World Cup finals in 2022.
Ultimate career goal... To become a legend.
Ultimate athlete... Muhammad Ali.
Ultimate clash... Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi but in a 100m race!
Ultimate memory... Passing the baton to Asafa Powell with gold secured in the 4x100m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Ultimate venue... London 2012 &ndash; great energy and full stadiums for every single session.
Ultimate meal... Jamaican food is always the best &ndash; jerk pork, rice and peas.
Ultimate night out/night in... Always a night out &ndash; good food, good music, good friends and party till dawn.
Ultimate possession... Family.
Ultimate hidden talent... Dominoes.
Ultimate day off... Sofa, chill, watch sports, just hang out.
Ultimate holiday destination... Australia.
Ultimate pre-competition song... DJ Khaled &ndash; All I Do Is Win.
Ultimate movie... Gladiator.

In the build-up to the inaugural World Athletics Ultiimate Championship, each week we put an athlete on the spot to find out 'What's your Ultimate?' This week it's Ultimate Legend Usain Bolt.

What's your Ultimate? – Usain Bolt

World Athletics and World Rugby joined forces to share expertise and foster collaboration as part of the Safe Sport Global Conference at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on 25-27 May.
The conference, which opened on Africa Day, brought together more than 400 delegates from various safeguarding organisations across the world. The collaboration between World Athletics and World Rugby saw the two international federations support the participation of several delegates from their respective African member federations as they shared knowledge and created links across the continent.
The programme for the three-day Safe Sport Global Conference, hosted by Safe Sport International, was designed to explore how safeguarding commitments translate into systems, leadership decisions and everyday practice across sport. Workshops and keynote presentations took place alongside research sessions, policy discussions and stakeholder dialogues.
Each day had a specific theme &ndash; day one centred on emerging research, knowledge exchange and dialogue between researchers, practitioners and policymakers; day two explored safeguarding leadership, policy development and collaboration across African sport systems; and day three focused on strengthening international cooperation and identifying shared priorities for advancing safeguarding worldwide.
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World Athletics and World Rugby joint session at the Safe Sport Global Conference in Cape Town (&copy; World Athletics)
Attendees from World Athletics and the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) included Senior Counsel Catherine Pitre, AIU Investigator and Analyst in Investigations &amp; Intelligence Hayley Gibbons, and AIU Deputy Head of Investigations Kyle Barber.
They shared their expertise during several sessions, including as part of panel discussions on &lsquo;Building a Continental Safeguarding Network&rsquo; and &lsquo;Trauma-informed Case Management&rsquo;. They also delivered a session alongside Swiss Sports Integrity: &lsquo;Two Sides of the Same Coin? Integrity and Safeguarding Approaches&rsquo;.
Alongside the conference, the opportunity was taken to bring together 15 safeguarding leads from World Athletics member federations in Africa, enabling them to build and enhance knowledge networks within the region, and discuss successes and challenges in implementing safeguarding at national level. In partnership with World Rugby, World Athletics delegates were paired with rugby safeguarding leads in the same regions to foster collaboration and share ideas.
&ldquo;The Safe Sport Global Conference showed growing global commitment to athlete safety,&rdquo; said National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe safeguarding officer Tawanda Mutero. &ldquo;It emphasised listening to athletes and putting them first. Collaboration was highlighted as key to making sport safer for everyone.&rdquo;
Athletics Namibia safeguarding officer Victoria Tilovanhu Katukula said: &ldquo;The Safe Sport Conference provided a valuable opportunity for networking with professionals committed to creating safer sporting environments. I gained deeper knowledge on safeguarding practices and learned practical examples of how safeguarding policies can be effectively implemented within sports organisations. My takeaway is that safeguarding is everyone&rsquo;s responsibility and it is not done overnight.&rdquo;
Key messages from the conference included reinforcing the pivotal concept of safeguarding being everyone&rsquo;s responsibility, the need for greater global harmonisation in safeguarding regulation and implementation, and best practice for ensuring that the athlete voice is heard.
The conference concluded with a call to carry the Safe Sport legacy forward, ensuring that the progress made continues to inspire meaningful change worldwide.
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World Athletics and World Rugby joined forces to share expertise and foster collaboration as part of the Safe Sport Global Conference at the University of Cape Town

World Athletics shares expertise at Safe Sport Global Conference

Just three days after the action in Stockholm, athletes will want to put on a show in Oslo as the Wanda Diamond League series moves on to the Bislett Games on Wednesday (10).
Rivalries are renewed in the middle distances, while Karsten Warholm and Alison dos Santos clash in the 400m hurdles, Julien Alfred makes her Diamond League season 100m debut after her 200m win in Rome, and Gout Gout races Letsile Tebogo over half a lap.
USA&rsquo;s world indoor champion Cooper Lutkenhaus made his Diamond League debut in the 800m in Stockholm, clocking 1:42.70 &ndash; the fastest outdoor time in the world so far this year &ndash; to beat 2023 world champion Marco Arop. They clash again in Oslo and this time they are also set to face Olympic and world champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Max Burgin, who beat Wanyonyi to victory at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat.
Yared Nuguse is also among the global medallists doing the Scandinavian double. The Olympic bronze medallist won the 1500m from Cameron Myers and Timothy Cheruiyot in Stockholm and they all race the Dream Mile in Oslo, joined again by Narve Gilje Nord&aring;s and Hobbs Kessler. Further strengthening the field are all three members of last year&rsquo;s world 1500m podium: champion Isaac Nader, silver medallist Jake Wightman and bronze medallist Reynold Cheruiyot.
The 5000m features the four fastest men of 2025 &ndash; double Olympic medallist Grant Fisher, world 10,000m bronze medallist Andreas Almgren and last year&rsquo;s Bislett Games top two Nico Young and Biniam Mehary &ndash; against world silver medallist Isaac Kimeli, Jacob Krop and Birhanu Balew.
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Likina Amebaw and Freweyni Hailu, who won the 5000m in Rome and the 1500m in Rabat, respectively, meet in the middle when they race the 3000m in Oslo. They face world U20 champion Aleshign Baweke, who finished second between her two compatriots in Rome and fourth in the world indoor 3000m final, as well as Linden Hall, Georgia Griffith, Maureen Koster and Hannah Nuttall.
<h2>Alfred, Tebogo and Gout star in sprints</h2>
After winning the 200m in 21.93 in Rome, Saint Lucia&rsquo;s Julien Alfred races her first Diamond League 100m since winning the final last September. The Olympic champion faces world 200m silver medallist Amy Hunt and Patrizia Van der Weken, who finished second and third respectively in Stockholm, Hunt breaking 11 seconds for the first time.
Australia&rsquo;s world U20 silver medallist Gout Gout will make his senior Diamond League debut when he lines up alongside Botswana&rsquo;s Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo in the 200m in Oslo. Gout set a world U20 record of 19.67 in Sydney in April &ndash; a time that remains the fastest in the world so far this year. The 18-year-old races for the first time since then, up against Tebogo, who ran 19.96 to finish second in Rabat, plus Sinesipho Dambile, who was second in Stockholm.
The women&rsquo;s 400m features a rematch between home favourite Henriette J&aelig;ger and Czechia&rsquo;s world indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel, the top two in Rome, as they take on Natalia Bukowiecka, Nickisha Pryce, Lieke Klaver and Amber Anning.
<h2>Warholm vs Dos Santos</h2>
Home star Karsten Warholm set a world 300m hurdles best when he last raced at the Bislett Games and the three-time world champion will want to return to winning ways when he lines up again at the Bislett Stadium. Norway&rsquo;s world 400m hurdles record-holder has lost twice to Brazil&rsquo;s 2022 world champion Alison dos Santos so far this year and Dos Santos backed up those performances with another win in the non-Diamond League 400m hurdles in Stockholm.
Joining them in the clash that will close the Bislett Games programme on Wednesday are two-time world bronze medallist Abderrahman Samba, Matheus Lima and Trevor Bassitt.
Emma Zapletalov&aacute; continues her campaign after setting national records to win the 400m hurdles in Rabat and Rome, clocking 52.58 at the latter. Rushell Clayton was third in both races and races again.
<h2>Marschall and Schilder seek Scandinavian double</h2>
Australia&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall won the pole vault in Stockholm, handing Mondo Duplantis his first defeat in almost three years. Duplantis won&rsquo;t be in Oslo as the world record-holder switches his focus to his wedding, but this time Marschall will star in a rematch with Emmanouil Karalis, the Greek world and Olympic medallist who sits second on the world all-time list with his 6.17m clearance from February. Karalis has cleared six metres twice already this outdoor season, but Marschall beat him in their only other Diamond League clash so far in 2026, in Shanghai. Norway&rsquo;s Sondre Guttormsen will want to impress in front of a home crowd, while the field also features Sam Kendricks and Menno Vloon.
World champion Jessica Schilder seeks her third Diamond League shot put win of the season after backing up her 21.09m Diamond League record in Shanghai with a 20.89m meeting record in Stockholm. In another clash of global champions, she faces world indoor champion Chase Jackson, two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton and Olympic champion Yemisi Mabry (n&eacute;e Ogunleye).
The world and Olympic champions go head-to-head in the women&rsquo;s triple jump as Leyanis P&eacute;rez takes on Thea LaFond. The men&rsquo;s event also includes a whole host of major medallists as two-time world indoor champion Andy D&iacute;az, who won in Rome, faces world champion Pedro Pichardo, making his season debut, plus Jordan Scott and Yasser Triki.
The javelin stars China&rsquo;s Yan Ziyi, who threw 71.74m in Xiamen for the second-best performance in history. This time, the 18-year-old&rsquo;s rivals will include Juleisy Angulo, competing for the first time since her world title win in Tokyo.
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Just three days after the action in Stockholm, athletes will want to put on a show in Oslo as the Wanda Diamond League series moves on to the Bislett Games

Stacked fields on show in Oslo

Switzerland&rsquo;s Audrey Werro stormed to third on the world 800m all-time list as she ran a Wanda Diamond League record of 1:53.98 to win a sensational race against Keely Hodgkinson at the Bauhaus-Galan in Stockholm on Sunday (7).
They pushed each other to two of the six fastest times in history, 22-year-old Werro becoming the first woman to break 1:54 in almost 43 years and Hodgkinson running a British record of 1:54.33 for the fastest ever non-winning time. USA&rsquo;s Roisin Willis was third in a PB of 1:57.56.
The target time was set at 1:54 and it was Werro who tracked the pacemaker as she reached 400m in 55.54. Hodgkinson kicked off the bend and led until the final straight but Werro, who won the Diamond League title last year, was in hot pursuit.
Werro kicked past the Olympic champion down the home straight, striding over the finish line in 1:53.98 to become just the third woman in history to break 1:54.
&ldquo;I still need to process. I am still in shock at this performance,&rdquo; said Werro. &ldquo;Today I was in great shape, I was ready mentally and physically, so it was a good day for me.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was not my main goal to follow the pacemaker, but the race went like that. When they dropped out, I decided to follow Keely as long as possible, and I gave it everything I had. I need some time to process what just happened, but I am so happy with my time.&rdquo;
<h2>Meeting records for Schilder and Bouzayani</h2>
Two more meeting records fell in the shot put and 3000m steeplechase.&nbsp;
Dutch world champion Jessica Schilder got her second Diamond League win of the season, following her Diamond League record of 21.09m in Shanghai with a meeting record of 20.89m to triumph by almost a metre in Stockholm. After opening with 20.33m, she threw 20.89m in the fifth round to improve on the meeting record of 20.57m set by Valerie Adams in 2011.
World indoor champion Chase Jackson, fresh from a 20.66m throw to beat Schilder in Turku, finished second this time on 19.91m. Two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton was third in both Shanghai and Turku, and she repeated the feat in Stockholm with a best of 19.89m.
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Marwa Bouzayani celebrates her steeplechase win in Stockholm (&copy; Diamond League AG)
Tunisia&rsquo;s Marwa Bouzayani smashed the meeting record with 8:59.28 to secure her first Diamond League win in the 3000m steeplechase. The world fourth-place finisher showed she meant business, passing the pacemaker and running solo to reach the 1000m mark in 2:55.51. Despite that fierce start, she still managed to hold on and break nine minutes, dipping under that barrier for the third time this year &ndash; following her national record of 8:58.09 for third place in Shanghai and 8:59.25 to finish fourth in Xiamen. She won by more than 11 seconds, Elise Thorner coming through to clinch the runner-up spot in 9:11.01.
USA&rsquo;s world indoor champion Cooper Lutkenhaus impressed again to win the 800m on his Diamond League debut. The 17-year-old became the youngest winner of any event at a World Championships, indoors or out, by taking the world indoor 800m title in March. He picked up from where he left off, winning his first 800m race of the outdoor season in 1:42.70 &ndash; the fastest outdoor time in the world so far this year.
In a well-judged race, he tracked 2023 world champion Marco Arop to the home straight and then kicked past him. Arop was second in 1:43.11 and Slimane Moula was third in 1:43.41.
USA&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse pipped Australia&rsquo;s Cameron Myers to victory in the 1500m, edging past in the closing stages to triumph in 3:30.11. Myers settled for second in 3:30.32, while Timothy Cheruiyot was third in 3:30.67.&nbsp;The men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase was won by two-time Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali in 8:10.40.
Kenny Bednarek won his second consecutive Diamond League 200m, the US world and Olympic silver medallist following his 19.69 victory in Rabat with a clear 19.87 (1.0m/s) win in Stockholm.
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Kenny Bednarek on his way to 200m victory in Stockholm (&copy; Diamond League AG)
USA&rsquo;s world champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden stormed to victory in her first 100m race of the year, clocking 10.84 (0.8m/s) &ndash; her fastest ever season opener. Great Britain&rsquo;s world 200m silver medallist Amy Hunt broke 11 seconds for the first time, her 10.97 securing second place ahead of Patrizia Van der Weken (11.05).
South Africa&rsquo;s world fifth-place finisher Zakithi Nene won the 400m out of the outside lane, judging his race to perfection to hold off USA&rsquo;s Jacory Patterson &ndash; 44.48 to 44.69. Alison dos Santos led a Brazilian top two in the non-Diamond League 400m hurdles, clocking 47.11 to win ahead of Matheus Lima in a PB of 47.37.
<h2>Marschall defeats Duplantis&nbsp;</h2>
Australia&rsquo;s world bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall handed Mondo Duplantis his first defeat in almost three years in the pole vault.
Multiple world and Olympic champion Duplantis improved the world record to 6.28m on his home soil in Stockholm last year and has since taken that mark to 6.31m. But this time his best was 5.80m and so Marschall clinched his first Diamond League win with his third-time clearance of 5.90m.
After one failure each at earlier heights, both Marschall and Duplantis cleared 5.80m on their first attempts. Duplantis passed at the next height and that made the difference, as Marschall managed 5.90m on his final try. Duplantis then had two unsuccessful attempts at 6.00m, a height Marschall skipped. Duplantis used his final attempt at 6.05m and when he also knocked the bar at that height, Marschall was confirmed the winner. The Australian had two attempts himself at 6.05m and then retired with the win secured.
Duplantis had achieved a 40-final win streak since his last loss in Monaco in July 2023, those victories including five world title wins &ndash; three indoors and two outdoors &ndash; and a second Olympic title win as well as nine world records.
USA&rsquo;s world and Olympic champion Valarie Sion maintained her reign in the discus, throwing 68.60m in the second round to win by more than two metres. She backed that up with two other throws beyond 68 metres. World silver medallist Jorinde van Klinken was second with 66.57m. Sweden&rsquo;s three-time world champion Daniel St&aring;hl got a home win in the men&rsquo;s&nbsp;discus, throwing 69.60m from his single valid attempt to beat Matthew Denny (69.02m) and Kristjan Čeh (67.67m).
Hilary Kpatcha of France won the long jump by just one centimetre, leaping a wind-assisted 6.85m (2.4m/s) to beat Italy&rsquo;s Larissa Iapichino with a wind-aided 6.84m (2.1m/s).
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/calendar-results/7214021/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results</a>
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Switzerland’s Audrey Werro stormed to third on the world 800m all-time list as she ran a Wanda Diamond League record of 1:53.98 to win a sensational race against Keely Hodgkinson

Werro goes No.3 all time with 1:53.98 800m in Stockholm

Gabby Thomas produced the standout sprint performance at the USATF Lone Star Grand Prix in College Station, winning the women&rsquo;s 200m in 21.70 (0.7m/s) at the first US-based World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2026.
The US sprinter&rsquo;s time was faster than the mark she ran to win the Olympic title in 2024 and just 0.10 shy of the PB she set in 2023. She won comfortably from compatriot Kayla White, who clocked 22.07, and Nigeria&rsquo;s Favour Ofili, who was third in 22.15.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a little surprised by the time, but I&rsquo;ve been training hard,&rdquo; said Thomas, who headed into the race off the back of her first wind-legal sub-11 clocking for 100m. &ldquo;I had a great little tour in Africa and now the hard work is paying off.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m enjoying having an &lsquo;off&rsquo; year where there&rsquo;s not the pressure of an Olympics or World Championships, so I&rsquo;m just having fun this season.&rdquo;
Camryn Rogers continued her superb season in the women&rsquo;s hammer, extending her winning streak with a 79.36m throw in a high-quality and competitive contest.
The Olympic champion and two-time world champion, who has thrown beyond 80 metres three times this year, including in Turku just three days ago, had to work for victory against USA&rsquo;s Rachel Richeson.
Richeson took the early lead with 74.53m, while Rogers opened with a foul before throwing 74.43m in the second round to move into second place. The Canadian then took control with 79.36m in round three.
Richeson responded in the next round with a lifetime best of 79.33m, consolidating her position at sixth on the world all-time list and moving to within just three centimetres of Rogers&rsquo; lead. Both women ended their series with throws beyond 77 metres, but neither improved, leaving Rogers to claim another victory. Her last defeat is now more than a year ago.
For the first time ever outside of a global championships final, six women threw beyond 74 metres.
<h2>Nathaniel edges Bassitt in hurdles battle</h2>
Nigeria&rsquo;s Ezekiel Nathaniel, the fourth-place finisher at last year&rsquo;s World Championships, prevailed in a thrilling men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles race, edging Trevor Bassitt by the narrowest of margins.
Caleb Dean led through the first 300 metres before Bassitt began to challenge coming into the home straight. Nathaniel also came through strongly, and he and Bassitt battled down the final straight before crossing the line together in 47.37. Nathaniel was given the verdict by just two thousandths of a second, while Bassitt was rewarded with a PB. Dean finished close behind in 47.42.
Jamar Marshall was a convincing winner of the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles, clocking a PB of 13.04 to finish ahead of US compatriot De&rsquo;Vion Wilson, who ran 13.24.
In the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, Kemi Adekoya led throughout to win in 53.71. Shamier Little mounted a challenge, but Zimbabwe&rsquo;s Ashley Miller came through to take second in 54.08, improving her own national record by 1.01. Little finished third in 54.15.
There was a Jamaican one-two in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles as Demisha Roswell won in 12.53 from Ackera Nugent, who clocked 12.61. USA&rsquo;s Rayniah Jones was third in 12.62, while Olympic silver medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela, who has struggled with injury for the past 18 months, produced her best run since September 2024 with 12.65 in fourth.
The men&rsquo;s 200m was much closer than the women&rsquo;s race. The field was relatively even coming off the bend before 18-year-old Tate Taylor edged in front, but Zimbabwe&rsquo;s Olympic finalist Makanakaishe Charamba, running from lane eight, came through to win in a PB of 19.88.
Taylor was rewarded with a PB of 19.97, moving him to equal sixth on the world U20 all-time list. Michael Norman finished sixth in 20.40, his fastest time since 2022, the year in which he won the world 400m title.
Trayvon Bromell emerged victorious in a wind-assisted men&rsquo;s 100m, clocking 9.85 (3.8m/s) to beat a high-quality field. Canada&rsquo;s 2021 Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse was second in 9.91, with world champion Oblique Seville third, also in 9.91. The top eight men finished inside 10 seconds.
Jamaican teenager Sabrina Dockery powered through to win the women&rsquo;s 100m in a PB of 10.92, breaking 11 seconds for the first time. Canada&rsquo;s Audrey Leduc was second in 10.97, with Jamaica&rsquo;s Jodean Williams third in a PB of 10.97.
<h2>Maloney dominates 800m</h2>
Shafiqua Maloney produced a dominant display in the women&rsquo;s 800m. The Olympic fourth-place finisher from St Vincent and the Grenadines led through the first lap in 56.07, then continued to pull away from the rest of the field. She won in 1:57.34, just 0.05 shy of her PB, finishing more than a second clear of Jamaica&rsquo;s Kelly-Ann Beckford, who ran a PB of 1:58.46, and USA&rsquo;s Victoria Bossong, who also set a PB with 1:58.52.
In the men&rsquo;s 400m, 2025 world indoor champion Chris Bailey produced a perfectly controlled effort to win in a season&rsquo;s best of 44.35. He finished a few strides ahead of Bryce Deadmon, who clocked 44.74. World indoor champion Christopher Morales Williams ran 45.04 for fourth, while Olympic champion Quincy Hall clocked 45.51 in seventh.
Elsewhere, world bronze medallist Curtis Thompson was a clear winner of the men&rsquo;s javelin, his first-round throw of 84.88m proving enough for victory. World and Olympic medallist Chris Nilsen took the men&rsquo;s pole vault with 5.80m.

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World Athletics is proud to announce that the sustainable event management system it has developed to embed sustainability into its operations across the sport has been re-certified to ISO 20121:2024, the globally-recognised standard that guides organisations to integrate sustainability into every facet of their event planning and execution.
The certification process included a rigorous two-day audit of World Athletics' sustainability policies and documentation. This involved operations and risk management analyses, coupled with on-site staff interviews, with a strong focus on how the sustainability management system has matured and continues to evolve since its initial certification in 2023.
The standard was developed in the run-in to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games as a framework to address limiting carbon emissions and waste, managing the biodiversity of venues and respecting human rights. It was revised in 2024 to align expectations with global sustainability frameworks adopted since 2012, including the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The revised standard includes an increased focus on climate change and legacy, and human and child rights. Those who implement the standard must now undertake a double materiality assessment that requires an organisation or event to consider their impact on people and the environment as well as the risks and opportunities for the organisation created by sustainability-related developments and events.
&ldquo;This independent review recognises the progress we are making to ensure that sustainability considerations are being embedded across all of our operations,&rdquo; said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. &ldquo;It shows that the path we're creating for all of our events, member federations and other stakeholders is leading to meaningful and verifiable impact.&rdquo;
The re-certification audit was conducted by a team from Act Responsibly, a Swiss-based consultancy with strong expertise in the international sports federation sector. The scope of the re-certification also includes the <a href="https://worldathletics.org/organisation/better-world/sustainability-initiatives/athletics-for-a-better-world-standard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Athletics for a Better World (ABW) Standard</a>, a system developed by World Athletics that evaluates, measures and scores an event&rsquo;s achievement in sustainable delivery.
In January 2024, sustainability reporting through the ABW Standard became a requirement for most global elite competitions managed or awarded by World Athletics. In total, 104 events completed sustainability reporting for their 2024 editions while <a href="https://worldathletics.org/organisation/better-world/sustainability-initiatives/abw-standard-certified-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">121 completed their reporting for 2025</a>. When fully adopted, the ABW Standard will be the largest sustainability evaluation system in the sport industry.
World Athletics&rsquo; third sustainability report, which will include a comprehensive review of the strategy&rsquo;s first five years, will be released later this month.
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World Athletics is proud to announce that the sustainable event management system it has developed to embed sustainability into its operations across the sport has been re-certified to ISO 20121:2024

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