Defending champions Ines Henriques, Omar Zepeda and Ana Cabecinha are the top names ready to shine tomorrow (23) in Chihuahua as the 11th edition of the annual IAAF Race Walking Challenge will kick off in northern Mexican city.

The middle-distance races provided five of the six world-leading marks tonight (21) in Stockholm at the XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

The 11th IAAF Race Walking Challenge takes centre stage again after an exciting 2012 with the north Mexican city of Chihuahua hosting and Hobart, Australia hosting the first two of the 14-leg series this weekend.

The XL-galan meeting - an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting - in the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm celebrates its 24th edition on Thursday (21) and the usually sold out crowd of more than 10,000 have been treated to no less than eight World indoor records...

As has become the tradition, the middle distance events produced the main highlights at the Spanish indoor championships at the Pista Coberta de Catalu a in Sabadell this weekend held over the weekend (16-17).

The second day of various 2013 national indoor championships were held across Europe on Sunday (17), and there were impressive results in Prague from Czech pole vaulter Jan Kudlicka and shot putter Martin Stasek.