This year s Exxon Mobil Bislett Games, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, will boast the strongest ever field to participate in a 3000m Steeplechase event at the famous Oslo stadium on 13 June.

Toea Wisil and Ratu Banuve Tabakaucoro completed sprint doubles when they won their respective 100m as the Oceania Area Championships, which concluded in Papeete, French Polynesia, on Wednesday.

With four of the 14 meetings of the 2013 IAAF Diamond League season completed, France s Olympic Pole Vault champion Renaud Lavillenie, one of the stars of tonight s Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome s 1960 Olympic Stadium, continues to fly high above h...

He is already in the Ethiopean team for the IAAF World Championships in Moscow this summer but Kenenisa Bekele wants more at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, and IAAF World Challenge meeting, in the Dutch town Hengelo on Saturday (8).

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As befits a meeting dedicated to the memory of Italian sprint legend Pietro Mennea, the spotlight falls firmly on the men s 100m and Usain Bolt at Rome s Golden Gala, the first European stop for the 2013 IAAF Diamond League, on Thursday (6).

Cuba s 2012 World junior Champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo made a massive improvement when he produced a big personal best and world-leading Triple Jump of 17.69m with his first attempt at a rainy 63rd Barrientos Memorial meeting in Havana on Tuesday (4).

Cuba s 2012 World junior Champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo made a massive improvement when he produced a big personal best and world-leading Triple Jump of 17.69m with his first attempt at a rainy 63rd Barrientos Memorial meeting in Havana on Tuesday (6).

Javelin thrower Les Copeland produced the top performance of the second day as the Oceania championships in Papeete, French Polynesia on Tuesday (4).

Getting to the line is sometimes said to be the hardest thing about championships and when it comes to the Oceania Area Championships, which started on Monday (3), the saying is almost literally true.