South Africa's star jumper Luvo Manyonga set a world lead distance in difficult conditions at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Saturday

The next leg of the Diamond League will take place in Eugene, USA, on May 26.

Patience. One of the key ingredients to sporting success and something that can make or break a career.

Gatlin came a disappointing seventh, while running unnoticed, the unheralded Prescod grabbed a shock victory by a whisker from China's Su Bingtian.

Star long-jumper Luvo Manyonga will face a serious challenge to his long-jump supremacy of the last year in Shanghai this weekend

South Africa's champion hurdler Wenda Nel will face some serious competition at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting in China on Saturday

Russian federal investigators said Friday they had sent the World Anti-Doping Agency "proof" refuting claims of a state-sponsored doping programme.

South African athletics is blessed with world-class sprinters and junior champion Thando Dlodlo is poised to add his name to that list very soon

IOL Sport's Njabulo Ngidi was bitten by the running bug two years ago and will run his maiden Comrades Marathon this year in honour of his late father

The popular event which incorporates three distances - the marathon, the half-marathon and the 10km has reached the 25 000 entries mark

Nick Bester, 1991 Comrades Marathon winner and current Nedbank Running Club boss, has offered some sage advice for getting through the race.

The challenge to the IAAF’s female eligibility rules is expected to kick up a gear with a Sascoc advisory committee meeting in Cape Town on Wednesday.

After answering her IAAF challengers with an emphatic, record-breaking performance in Doha, Semenya will next feature in Eugene, Oregon in late May

Caster Semenya and Carina Horn struck a blow for female athletics when they both breached magical barriers at Friday's Diamond League meeting in Doha.

A witness said a metro police vehicle as well as a tow-truck operator had been on the scene soon after the accident.

There has been a general hysterical response from both sides of the spectrum to the whole issue, writes Ockert de Villiers.