After three days of a heatwave, milder temperatures prevailed on the final evening of the four-day athletics competition at the Asian Youth Games held in Nanjing, China, that finished on Thursday (22).

For the first time in its 19-year-history, the Prague Grand Prix over 10km, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, will feature an elite women's race competing alongside the always-strong men's field on 7 September.

Valerie Adams tweeted a picture this week of the gap or rather the lack of a gap between her knees and the back of the seat in front on her flight from Moscow to Stockholm.

For the first time in it's 19-year-history, the Prague Grand Prix over 10km, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, will feature an elite women's race competing alongside the always-strong men's field on 7 September.

Ethiopia s Meseret Defar would have preferred to have raced over 5000m, the distance at which she has won consecutive Olympic and World titles, but she made the very best of the scheduled 3000m race at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm to wi...

Hungary s Krisztian Pars got a modicum of revenge for his surprise defeat by Poland s Pawel Fajdek at the IAAF World Championships last week he produced a 2013 world-leading 82.40m at the 11th Athletics Bridge meet in the Slovak town of Dubnica on Wedn...