Kim Collins is celebrating his 19th year on the international athletics circuit but he still has an appetite for the big occasion and will be competing at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday, the opening event of the 2013 series.

Five world-leading marks topped by Tyson Gay’s 100m in 9.86 and Ryan Whiting’s 21.74m Shot Put were just a few of the highlights of an enthralling Jamaica International Invitational meeting, an IAAF World Challenge event, on Saturday (4).

Kazakh triple jumper Roman Valiyev provided the top performance of the opening meeting of the 2013 Asian Grand Prix circuit when he bounded out to 17.10m at the Thammasat University Stadium in Bangkok here on Saturday (4).

At the IAAF Diamond League meeting on 10 May 10 at Qatar Sports Club, spectators will witness thrilling face-to-face battles in most of the events; duels that will be hard to forget.

London 2012 Olympic Games Javelin champion Keshorn Walcott showed that he has wintered well when the Trinidad and Tobago athlete threw 84.39m on home soil at the TnT Elite Twilight Games in Port of Spain on Friday (3).

For Australia’s 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships medal prospect Matthew Denny, the choice between a team and an individual sport came early and was made decisively.