Usain Bolt has been named men's world athlete of the year for the sixth time at a gala hosted by the IAAF.

A successful 2016 season has Kiwi shot putter Tom Walsh dreaming of endless possibilities. Walsh has been back training ahead of

A Wellington mother is furious her son was disqualified from running barefoot from an inter-school event but a local sporting body says it agrees with the school's decision.

Theo Quax is gunning for the top of the podium.

AUCKLAND Athletics Auckland Meeting, Mt Smart Stadium - 26 November 2016 Olivia McTaggart added a further eight centimetres

In the Trans-Tasman rivalry at the Rio Olympic Games, New Zealand came out on top of Australia on the athletics medal table. Kiwis

Mass panic erupted at a New York City airport when loud cheers for Usain Bolt somehow led to a false report of gunshots.

AUCKLAND Athletics Auckland Meeting, Mt Smart Stadium - 19 November 2016 Fourteen year old Dominic Overend smashed the Auckland

In the start of a new series we ask the questions to the New Zealand 800m number one and 2015 World University Games champion who

If you had asked renowned broadcaster and mum of one Rachel Smalley a few years back if she would ever consider herself a marathon

AUCKLAND Athletics Auckland Meeting, Mt Smart Stadium - 12 November 2016 Hamish Gill 100m 10.73 (+0.8). Markos Ingham 100m 11.33

Jamaican super-sprinter Usain Bolt leads the list of six finalists announced for the 2016 IAAF World Athlete of the Year award.

AUCKLAND Athletics Auckland Meeting, Mt Smart Stadium - 5 November 2016 Mark down Olivia McTaggart as our next pole vault star

Following her bronze medal-winning success in Rio 2016, Eliza McCartney's profile in New Zealand and around the world has soared her

Nine-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will race in Australia for the first time in February next year. The greatest track

AUCKLAND ASB Auckland Marathon and Half Marathon - 30 October 2016 Oska Inkster-Baynes put eight months of planning and training

Two runners from American universities proved over the weekend there is much more to sport than just the result. While competing

Winning the marathon has come at a cost for the first woman to cross the finish line.

British Olympian Greg Rutherford has lifted the lid on the 'bedroom-hopping' which he was exposed to at one of his first athletics championships.

WELLINGTON Grand Prix Meeting, Newtown Park - 22 October 2016 Scott Thomson TJ 14.09m (+1.3). Anna Thomson TJ 12.18m (+2.5)

Triathlon great Bevan Docherty wants NZ's top athletes to stop blaming administrators and be more accountable as the sport heads into further recession.

Kiwi Cody Thomas advanced to fifth on the all-time New Zealand decathlon rankings with a breakthrough performance to win the NCAA

HAMILTON Athletics Waikato Bay of Plenty Meeting, Porritt Stadium - 15 October 2016 Charli Miller was just four seconds outside

Track and field has had a tainted history at the Olympic Games, with a number of medals being stripped for doping.

GERMANY The Great Berlin 10m - 9 October 2016 Zane Robertson broke his own New Zealand national 10km road record in winning

Zane Robertson has beaten a top field in a the Great 10km Berlin road race in Berlin on Monday morning, recording 27 min 28 sec and

Zane Robertson has beaten a top field in a the Great 10km Berlin road race in Berlin on Monday morning, recording 27 min 28 sec and

Olympic medallist Eliza McCartney speaks of 'mental block' that almost derailed Rio chances McCartney, 19, said "mental blocks" stopped

After her Olympic success, pole vaulter Eliza McCartney is now coming to terms with being a household name.

Rochelle Coster blitzed to a share of the New Zealand 100m hurdles record during a breakthrough 2016 campaign. The Aucklander chats