China s 2011 IAAF World Championships Discus gold medallist Li Yanfeng made a discrete return to big time competition at the Chinese National Games earlier this month and showed that she is capable of being a medal contender at major championships agai...

Injury forced Netsanet Achamo to withdraw from last year s Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, but she will return to the Canadian city on 20 October intent on beating the course record of 2:22:43.

One of Europe s top distance runners, reigning European cross country champion Andrea Lalli, will finally make his long-awaited Marathon debut at the 28th Venice Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, on 27 October.

After the huge success of the ‘Athletics Village in promoting the IAAF World Indoor Championships Sopot 2014 in recent months, the first stop on a brief national tour took place in Torun on Thursday (26).

Just when the track season was drawing to a close and all the talk was of holidays and then training camps, Barbora Spotakova discretely came out just over a week ago on 13 September to throw 62.33m, which places her 18th on the 2013 season's lists.

Geoffrey Mutai won the Udine Half Marathon on Sunday (22) in 59:06, one of the fastest times ever on Italian soil and the fourth-fastest time in the world this year.