FRANCE IAAF Diamond League, Meeting de Paris, Stade de France - 27 August 2016 Tom Walsh beat the Rio Olympic Games gold medallist

Tom Walsh has smashed his own New Zealand shot put record, winning the Diamond League event in Paris. A week after securing an

BRAZIL Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Track and Field, Olympic Stadium - 12/20 August 2016 16 August: Eliza McCartney overcame

Nick Willis added an Olympic bronze medal to the silver medal won eight years ago in Beijing when he stormed home to claim third in

Eliza McCartneys meteoric swift and spectacular rise in status in the pole vault reached new heights with a bronze medal at the Rio

Eliza McCartney is through to the final of the pole vault, Nick Willis makes the semi-final of the 1500m and Nikki Hamblin added to

BRAZIL Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Track and Field, Olympic Stadium - 12/20 August 2016 12 August: The Team Val Adams

Zane Robertson ran one of the races of his life in coming in 12th in the Rio Olympics 10,000m in 27:33.67 to carve eight seconds off

AUCKLAND Athletics New Zealand and Oceania Cross Country Championships, Auckland Domain - 7 August 2016 Jono Jackson felt a

SWEDEN Folksam Grand Prix, Karlstad, 27 July: Lucy Oliver who will be competing in the 5000m at the Rio Olympic Games was fourth

Valerie Adams coach Jean Pierre Egger suffered a knee injury during travel to the recent Diamond League meeting in Monaco which is

Sir John Walker and Dick Quax, two of the country's greatest middle-distance runners, have expressed disappointment in the New Zealand

POLAND IAAF World Junior Championships, Zawisza Stadium, Bydgoszcz - 19/24 July 2016 Zoe Hobbs and James Preston highlighted

Shot putter Tom Walsh lead the Kiwi performances with a second place at the IAAF London Diamond League meeting while pole vaulter

James Preston ran an impressive New Zealand under 20 record, placing seventh in his semi-final of the mens 800m at the World Under

James Preston ran an impressive first-up race in the heats of the mens 800m at the World Under 20 Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz

Zoe Hobbs has placed a creditable fourteenth in the womens 100m at the World Under 20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Running

Zoe Hobbs set a high standard for the Kiwi team to follow on the morning of Day 2 at the IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz

Four New Zealand athletes have been added to the team for Rio in the second and final wave of athletics selections for the 2016 Olympic

The IAAF held a Governance Structure Reform Forum in Amsterdam on 4-5 July ahead of the European Championships. The forum, led

AUCKLAND Athletics Auckland Cross Country Grand Prix 4, Long Bay Regional Park - 9 July 2016 Jono Jackson is having a dream

TAUPO North Island Cross Country Championships, Spa Thermal Park - 2 July 2016 Jono Jackson is pleased to get a cross country

Tessa Webb stormed to an eye-catching victory in the senior girls' race at the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Cross Country Championships

Earlier this year Ashley Taylor won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the prestigious Halberg Awards. Steve Landells chats to the Waikato-based