At the first-of-its-kind Ultimate Championship in Budapest, Jakob Ingebrigtsen has got the latest laugh in a battle of distance runners and hurdler Masai Russell wrapped up an undefeated, record-setting season.

It’s supposed to be a track meet featuring the best of the best.

Track and field’s international federation says it will only support future events held by the bankrupt Grand Slam Track league once its debts from the 2025 season are settled.

Grand Slam Track, a running league meant to boost athletes' finances, has declared bankruptcy, leaving many unpaid.

Olympic champion hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has announced she is pregnant.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and four other Olympic medalists are among those owed six-figure sums by Grand Slam Track, the racing league that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month.

Grand Slam Track, the league fronted by sprint great Michael Johnson that offered six-figure prize money for top runners, has filed for bankruptcy after canceling its final event and failing to pay athletes and vendors.

As part of a seismic schedule change for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, track and field, and not swimming, will lead off the Olympics.

The U.S. track team overhauled its struggling relay strategy to start this Olympic cycle and won four of five possible gold medals at the world championships in Tokyo last month.

Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles blasted through the anchor legs of back-to-back wins in the rainy 4x100s to close out world championships with a relay sweep for the U.S. Richardson received the baton with a.

The failure of Michael Johnson’s attempt to transform track and field, the Grand Slam Track league, hovered over big swaths of the sport’s world championships this week.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone holds the world record in the 400-meter hurdles and took a giant step closer to setting it in the 400 flat at world championships.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone became the first woman in nearly 40 years to break the 48-second barrier in the 400 meters.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has become the first woman in nearly 40 years to crack 48 seconds in the 400 meters.

One record down, and maybe one more to go for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in Tokyo.

On the hallowed list of world records in track and field, most marks are, indeed, made to be broken.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won her second U.S. title in the 400-meter flat, finishing in 48.90 seconds to secure a spot in the race at world championships later this summer.

Grand Slam Track has canceled the final meet of its first season, in Los Angeles, leaving the host of the 2028 Olympics and the country’s second-largest city without a major track meet this summer.

The contest for most gold medals at the Paris Olympics ended in a 40-40 tie between China and the United States.

Between Noah Lyles drama in the sprints and distance demon Sifan Hassan’s 62-kilometer odyssey that closed things out with a gold medal, track and field took the Olympics on a wild ride over 10 days of close calls, upsets and drama.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone once again broke her own world record, powering over the 400-meter hurdles in 50.37 seconds to defend her Olympic title.

Julien Alfred cruised in her opening-round heat of the 200 meters the morning after the sprinter from St. Lucia won the Olympic 100.

Sydney McLaughlin took the last victorious lap of an all-American world championships.

Sydney McLaughlin shattered her world record by a whopping 0.73 seconds, blazing through the 400-meter hurdles in 50.68 seconds for her first title at world championships.

Over nine days at the near-empty Olympic Stadium, the women of track and field delivered a memorable show.

Sydney McLaughlin shaved nearly a half-second off her previous all-time best set at U.S. Trials, overtaking defending Olympic champion teammate Dalilah Muhammad after the last set of hurdles for gold.