London 2012 Olympic Games Pole Vault champion Jenn Suhr is the latest addition to the roster of IAAF diarists and wrote her first entry from Florida.

Usain Bolt will keep his promise to return to the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and will compete in a special 4x100m race at the IAAF World Challenge meeting on 27 June, organisers announced on Thursday (14).

The ABN-AMRO Rotterdam Marathon on 14 April, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, will feature six men who have gone under 2:06 for the classic distance and who will have the course record of 2:04:27 in their sights, organisers announced on Thursday (14).

Another clean sweep of Olympic medallists will grace this year’s Prefontaine Classic, part of the Samsung Diamond League, and this time it’s the men’s High Jump.

The TUI Hannover Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, will see a duel of two champions on May 5 as Kenya’s defending champion Joseph Kiptum returns to face 2011 winner Lusapho April of South Africa.

Defending champion and course record-holder Henry Sugut will return to the Vienna Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, for its 30th edition on April 14, but the Kenyan will be up against some strong opponents.

The fourth episode of IAAF Inside Athletics is available to watch online now.

Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt and all-round talent Jessica Ennis scooped the main prizes at last night’s Laureus World Sports Awards in Rio de Janeiro.

When your biggest achievement to date is an Olympic silver medal, there’s only one logical goal to aim for: go one better. “At some point I would like to know that I’m the best in the world,” says the soft-spoken Galen Rupp.

Sub-60-minute performances have in recent years become commonplace at the ABN-AMRO City-Pier-City Half Marathon in Den Haag (The Hague), but the 39th edition today (10) saw temperatures of just 1 C and strong cold winds as no one dipped under an hour.