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Saturday 17 October 2026 397,898 medals & places · 82,418 athletes
· 212 championships Season 2026 · 70 meetings
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29 Sep · 2026 Asian Games The numbers: Asian Games Asian Games achievements underlined over the numbers.
27 Sep · 2026 Berlin Marathon Tragically historic Tigst Assefa missed the world record reclaim in Berlin because of last kilometre cramps. 
26 Sep · 2026 South American Games 19 records broken in four days The athletics competition sees 19 games records during four-day programme. 
25 Sep · 2026 Asian Games Resurgence of Thai storm The sprint saga Puripol Boonson built a masterpiece at the Asian Games. 
24 Sep · 2026 Asian Games Two titles in half an hour Bahrain takes double gold at the Asian Games in just about 30 minutes. 
Results desk
All championships →Fresh in the archive
8–11 Oct 2026 Indian Open Athletics Championships New Delhi India 42 · 0 · 0 42
11 Oct 2026 Chicago Marathon Chicago Amos Kipruto KEN · Marathon 2:01:09 Hawi Feysa ETH · Marathon 2:13:33
19 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya China PR 17 · 14 · 8 39 Japan 10 · 12 · 10 32 Bahrain 9 · 2 · 2 13
27 Sep 2026 Berlin Marathon Berlin Guye Adola ETH · Marathon 2:02:50 Tigst Assefa ETH · Marathon 2:11:04
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tomorrow 2026 Amsterdam Marathon Amsterdam · 18 Oct 
in 13 days 2026 Youth Olympics Dakar · 30 Oct – 15 Nov 
in 21 days 2026 Balkan XC Koynare, Pleven · 7 Nov 
in 57 days 2026 European XC Belgrade · 13 Dec 
in 98 days 2027 South Asian Games Lahore · 23 Jan – 6 Feb 
in 138 days 2027 European Indoor Valencia · 4–7 Mar in 182 days 2027 European Running Championships Belgrade · 17–18 Apr
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Everything about one event, kept up to date
Guide · Olympic Games Paris 2024: all information
Event infoboxes, daily reports from all ten days and every final with its winner — the Games in one page.
- daily reports
- 10
- marathon reports
- 2
- finals, timetable
- All
Guide · Road World Marathon Majors
Every race of the series since Boston 2006, the stops, and the countdown of race winners.
- races, 2006–2026
- 107
- majors incl. Sydney
- 7
- wins · Kipchoge
- 11
On this day 17 Oct
161 medallists were born on this day, 11 died on it. The most decorated come first.
Vladimir Lyakhov 
Aurele Vandendriessche 
Micheline Ostermeyer 
Domenico Cetinic Portraits
Featured athletes, in the words of their archive biographies
UKR · High jump Yaroslava Mahuchikh High jump world record holder. World and Olympic champion. Mahuchikh discovered at age 11 by former 400H runner and coach Tetiana Stepanova. She won every…
GDR · Sprints Marlies Göhr East German sprint great. Born as Marlies Oelsner, then used her name as Marlies Göhr after marriage to footballer Ulrich Göhr. She has two Olympics…
IND · Sprints, 400m hurdles PT Usha Widely considered the greatest ever female athlete from India. Renowned as Golden Girl of India. Missed Olympic medal in Los Angeles 1984 by only 0.01 secs in…
TUR · Sprints Ramil Guliyev Turkey's first (and only) world champion in seniors level. Born and raised in Azerbaijani capital Baku. Started athletics in guidance of his father, Eldar…