Usain Bolt fell just short of his 150m world best as he sped to with victory down a specially built straight track on the famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in 14.42 on Sunday (31).

Texas has played host to many fast – and windy – sprint performances in the past, but at this weekend’s staging of the Texas Relays in Austin (27-30 March), USA’s Darvis Patton produced one of the fastest ever 100m runs in any c...

The Chinese indoor season closed in Beijing with a two-day meet on Friday and Saturday. As was the case with the first indoor grand prix in Nanjing three weeks ago, male sprinters provided the highlights but this time with different athletes.

It may not have looked anything much, but Mitchell Watt completed his first competition off a full run-up since the London Olympics and is looking forward to the Melbourne World Challenge.

In exactly one year, the IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships will take place in wonderful Copenhagen in Denmark on 29 March 2014.

It’s really no surprise, given his family genes, that Jacko Gill is good – very good – at shot putting.