The preview for the Heptathlon could have been a very different one just a week or so ago but the fact that the two biggest names, Great Britain s London 2012 Olympic Games champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and Russia s 2011 World champion Tatyana Chernova, ...

In 2012, Ashton Eaton broke the world record at the US Olympic Trials with a score of 9039 points and went to the London 2012 Olympics Games as the outstanding favourite for the gold medal. This year, the 25-year-old only lies in 13th place in the wor...

The battle for the gold medal looks to be between Russia s reigning Olympic champion and defending World champion Anna Chicherova and the USA s London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Brigetta Barrett and there is little to choose between them on cu...

This has proved to be a halcyon year for men s high jumping with Ukraine s Bohdan Bondarenko going over 2.41m and Qatar s Mutaz Essa Barshim clearing 2.40m; the first year since 1991 that two men have gone over 2.40m or higher.

Russian athletics stars don t come much bigger than pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva.

The preview for the Heptathlon could have been a very different one just a week or so ago but the fact that the two biggest names, Great Britain s London 2012 Olympic Games champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and Russia s 2011 World champion Tatyana Chernova, ...