Seven world-class athletes joined dozens of young children today for an athletics competition held in the grounds of the Nestl headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, situated on the banks of the picturesque Lake Geneva.

Paris, like so many host cities on the IAAF Diamond League circuit, is once again in thrall to that sporting phenomenon known as Usain Bolt.

It pays to run a marathon with ambition, and the 2013 Gold Coast Marathon on Sunday (6) has set its goals high no less than race records in the IAAF Bronze Label Road Race in both the men s and women s events and the fastest-ever marathon on Australi...

The 2013 Moscow Championships were held at the South sports complex of Luzhniki stadium on Wednesday and Thursday (3-4) and were one of the final test events before the IAAF World Championships are held in the Russian capital next month.

China had twin reasons to rejoice on the second day of the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune, India, as they took both 100m titles on Thursday (4).

For the second year in a row, the men s High Jump provided one of the outstanding highlights of the Athletissima meeting as Bohdan Bondarenko set an IAAF Diamond League record in Lausanne on Thursday night (4).