Matthew Centrowitz a surprise 1500 metres bronze medallist at this summer's IAAF World Championships in Daegu admitted it was a tough decision before he decided to switch to a professional career.

2009 World 800m champion Caster Semenya has announced that she’ll now be training under the tutelage of the event’s former World and Olympic champion Maria Mutola.

If it would mean a season similar to what he experienced in 2011, Ben True would break his big toe every year.

Tokai University held an event Sept. 29 at its Shonan Campus in Kanagawa prefecture to formally launch the restructured ekiden team division of its middle and long distance block and to mark the opening of the campus' new cross-country course.

INDIANAPOLIS -- On Tuesday USA Track & Field hosted a national media teleconference with Galen Rupp. Rupp established a new 10,000 meter American record in Brussels on Friday of 26:48.00. Below are excerpts from the teleconference

World and Olympic champion Steve Hooker believes the pole vault competition is wide open this year, as he prepares to compete for the first time since winning Commonwealth gold in New Delhi last October. Hooker has spent the last month in London, finalising his training for the season while also keeping one eye on preparations for the Olympics.

European Athletics is pleased to announce that the sprint duo of Christophe Lemaitre of France and Ivet Lalova of Bulgaria have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for June.

Athletics Australia is pleased to announce that Andrew Faichney will start on October 3 as the new Paralympic Preparation Program Manager. Faichney rejoins Athletics Australia having spent four years at the federation (1999-2003) as a Development Officer and then Assistant Competitions Manager.

The #1-ranked Japanese woman in distance running, 21-year-old Megumi Kinukawa (Team Mizuno) is in the best shape of her life. Known as the "Magic Girl" during her days competing at Sendai Ikuei High School Kinukawa received more than her share of attention, but after coming down with a serious, long-lasting illness of unknown origin a few months before graduating in 2008 she fell from grace and all but disappeared.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - (May 25, 2011) - People run because it feels great, but behind that feeling are a million different reasons. Some run to clear their heads, others to talk with friends. Some use running as a motive for traveling to far flung destinations, others to keep their waistlines in check. This year's National Running Day is a celebration of that passion and an occasion for runners to share the enthusiasm that gets sneakers laced and bodies out the door.