Despite the weather oscillating around 20 degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning, Bohdan Bondarenko seemed to feel the cold as he was dressing in a baggy long-sleeved T-shirt and tights, as well as his Ukrainian vest, during the High Jump qualifying rounds.

There were distance finals, sprint finals, throws finals, and even a race walk, but Tuesday was the day Yelena Isinbayeva wrote, stage managed, and played the starring role at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

This morning s qualifying round did nothing but simply underline the poor standards in the women s Triple Jump, because for the first time since the event made its debut at the World Championships in 1993, a mark below 14 metres was enough to make the ...

They came, they saw, they went home happy.

Hanna Melnychenko s season s best of 41.87m in the Javelin has suddenly made it very hard for anyone to catch her during the 800m, the final event of the Heptathlon.

History, of sorts, was made when Mohammed Aman became the first Ethiopian to win a world outdoor 800m title as he kicked hard coming off the final bend to snatch the gold medal on Tuesday night (13).

The celebration for Raphael Holzdeppe began as soon as the bar on London 2012 Olympic Games champion Renaud Lavillenie's final vault at 5.96m crashed to the pit at the IAAF World Championships.

Apart from a somewhat minor hiccup involving a misjudged finish, everything went completely according to plan for Russia s Elena Lashmanova as she added the IAAF World Championship 20km Race Walk title to the Olympic gold she won almost exactly year ag...

When the athletes on the start line for women s 400m Hurdles semi-finals were announced to the crowd, one of them drew a significantly bigger reaction than any other Natalya Antyukh of Russia.

At the fourth of the IAAF Ambassadors Press Conferences, 1993 IAAF World Championships gold medallists Frankie Fredericks and Colin Jackson were accompanied on Tuesday (13) by Russia bronze medal winner in the 110m Hurdles at this year s Championships,...