There aren’t many track and field duels more symbolic than the one between Tia Hellebaut and Alessia Trost that will unfold on Sunday (10) in Gent at the Flanders Indoor, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

Myriam Soumare produced the fastest indoor performance by a European sprinter for six years to win the 200m at the women-only ‘Meeting Feminin du Val d’Oise’ in Eaubonne tonight (7).

The IAAF with great sadness received the news today, Thursday 7 February, from the Portuguese Federation of the death this morning of Jo o Braga dos Anjos the much respected technical official.

Sprint hurdler Alina Talay was considered the best athlete of the Belarusian Indoor Championships in Mogilyev this week (5-6), after notching up a sprint double in the 60m flat and 60m Hurdles.

At the jubilee 20th staging of the Europa SC high jump competition in Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic, Mutaz Essa Barshim found himself in the unenviable position of needing to jump 2.36m in order to avoid defeat.

As for each of the previous six editions, this year’s Ras al-Khaimah Half Marathon on the northern shores of the UAE on February 15 promises fast times and fierce contests in both men’s and women’s races.