Twenty years ago today, the Sydney Olympic Games enraptured the world with what is widely regarded as one of the most thrilling nights in athletics history.

If Mo Farah succeeds in his bid to capture Haile Gebrselassie’s 13-year-old world one-hour record at the World Athletics Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels on Friday, the Briton will officially become the 12th man in history to hold the record.

To kick-start our new ‘fab five’ series, we highlight a quintet of world-class performances which were all produced in the first month of the year.

IAAF Heritage is delighted to announce the donation from two private collectors of major World Championships and Olympic Games artefacts from the careers of two all-time athletics greats.

Marathon legend Haile Gebrselassie helped inaugurate the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) “Walk the Talk: Health for All Challenge” in Geneva today (20), a global movement to promote health and, particularly, physical activity as part of a healthy sustainable future.

Our countdown to the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 continues with our look back at legendary indoor performers. Here, versatile Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie recounts his four world indoor titles.

The first episode of the fifth season of IAAF Inside Athletics is available to watch online now and features an exclusive interview with Ethiopian distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie.

The Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) will present Haile Gebrselassie with the AIMS lifetime achievement award at the AIMS Best Marathon Runner (BMR) awards dinner reception in Athens on 11 November.

“Ethiopian running is very poor right now,” says the taxi driver when asked to drive to the Ethiopian Athletics Federation offices.

Distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie announced his retirement from competitive running after finishing 16th at the Morrisons Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday (10).

World and Olympic champions at all distances ranging from 1500m to the marathon will be meeting over 10km for the Morrisons Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday (10).

Haile Gebrselassie, the greatest distance runner of all time, will be on a double mission at the Morrisons Great Manchester Run when he returns to the happy hunting ground of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 10 May.