This guide breaks down the official competition format for Olympic track and field, detailing every step from qualification ...

Recapping a thrilling slate of track and field at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, including medal charts, top highlights, storylines and more.

In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 18-year-old Francina Elsje Koen (pronounced COON) finished fifth in the women’s 4x100-meter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Katelyn Hutchison covers all things track and field. Team USA earned 34 medals in the track and field competitions at the Paris ...

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women who have not only excelled on the track, field and roads, but who have also helped shape athletics itself.

The American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is one of the world's fastest women. She's making her Olympic debut at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.

During the 4×400 relay at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Saturday night, Sydney McLaughlin, who set a world record in the 400-m hurdles earlier this week, took the lead in the first lap. She handed the ...

If she was going to make a U.S. Olympic team, it would surely be in the heptathlon, the seven-event discipline of track and ...

After capturing the high jump for the United States at the 1948 London Games, she returned home to a segregated South.

The athletes selected to compete at the most elite level must be extremely regimented to get there. That includes paying close attention to nutrition. We asked eight Olympic athletes—including ...