Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis soared 6.27m to set the 11th world pole vault record of his career at the All Star Perche, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, in Clermont-Ferrand on Friday (28).

Botswana has bid to host the 2026 World Athletics Relays, while Kenya officially bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships, aiming to be the first African nation to host this prestigious event.

The World Athletics Championships will be held in Tokyo from 13-21 September 2025. More than 2000 athletes from some 200 countries will come to Tokyo to take part in one of the world's biggest ...