We asked eight influential people within the sport for their go-to athletics resources. These are their choices – from A(TFS) to Z(arnowski)

The Stand – How One Gesture Shook the World, the latest athletics film from Tom Ratcliffe, passionately details one of the most iconic and enduring sporting moments: the 200m medal podium protest by Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games. And on many levels, its retelling, more than five decades later, couldn’t be more timely. 

The Dutch marathon record-holder Abdi Nageeye has a huge passion for music. From rap to rock and house to blues, Nageeye has an eclectic taste straddling many different styles. Here the Kenyan-based Dutch athlete and training partner to Eliud Kipchoge offers World Athletics his five tunes to play during lockdown.

Yesterday marked World Book Day. One man who has ramped up his reading action in recent months is USA’s world 4x400m champion Nathan Strother.

Tracks that US distance runner Sara Hall trains to.

It may be a niche genre, but athletics movies tend to perform pretty well during awards season.

The 24th edition of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships will take place on 29 March in Gdynia, a city of 246,000 residents on Poland’s Baltic coast.

Songs that fire up the world 200m champion