The top two French athletes, Teddy Tamgho and Renaud Lavillenie, spoke to the press ahead of their final IAAF Diamond League appearance of 2013 at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme.

The Bank of America Chicago Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, will feature four of the world's fastest Marathon men and the top two finishers from last year's women's race at its 2013 event on 13 October, organisers announced on Thursday (5).

The WMRA Mountain Running World Championships 2013, in the Polish town of Krynica-Zdr j, will see 365 runners from 40 countries and five continents on the start line of the four races on Sunday (8).

The Rieti Meeting 2013, the last IAAF World Challenge meeting of the year, will be a gathering of World and Olympic medallists who will honour the memory of late Italian sprint legend Pietro Mennea.

It s not often that Usain Bolt is upstaged, not least by a fellow Jamaican, but at the final IAAF Diamond League meeting of 2013, the Belgacom Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, it was Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who stole the show.

Another thrilling night of track and field in Zagreb produced five meeting records at the IAAF World Challenge meeting three in the field and two on the track and a little bit of disappointment for the home crowd as Sandra Perkovic s winning streak...