Germany's oldest Olympian Marianne Werner has died at the age of 99. 

Shot putter Nadezhda Ostapchuk has encouraged dissidents to return to Belarus following President Alexander Lukashenko's latest decree to allow protestors to come home - distancing herself from the 2020 and 2021 democracy demonstrations.

Georgian shot putter Benik Abramyan has been banned for seven years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after failing a drugs test at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Men's shot put Commonwealth Games champion Tom Walsh and three-time women's squash gold medallist Joelle King have been named here as New Zealand's flagbearers for tomorrow's Birmingham 2022 Opening Ceremony.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) is to hold shot put sessions across the country prior to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to generate interest in the discipline.

When Valerie Adams - Dame Valerie since 2017 - announced her retirement to the press last Tuesday she did so in characteristically and literally down-to-earth fashion: "Today, I am here to share with you all that I'm officially hanging up these size 14 throwing shoes."

New Zealand's four-times Olympic shot put medallist and deputy chair of the World Athletics Athletes' Commission Dame Valerie Adams has retired from the sport at the age of 37.

The Millrose Games brands itself as the world's premier indoor athletics event. It prides itself on its unique history, having first been staged at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1914, a venue it occupied annually until switching to its current Manhattan arena, The Armory, in 2012.

The investigation into the disqualification of Malaysia's Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics has upheld the initial decision, stating there is no evidence that Ziyad arrived at the call room at the appointed time.

Georgia’s national shot put record holder Benik Abramyan, who was due to take part in this evening’s qualifying competition, has been provisionally suspended from competition following an adverse finding in an out-of-competition test on July 31.

Ryan Crouser set a new indoor shot put world record with a monster throw of 22.82 metres in Fayetteville, which adds 16 centimeters to the previous best.

Two-time Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams has announced she has changed her coach as part of her preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Double Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams will have a better chance of winning a third gold and a fourth Olympic medal now that Tokyo 2020 has been postponed, according to her coach Scott Goodman.