On a warm and sometimes blustery morning at the Bupa Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, recent marathon debutantes Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele showed they haven't lost too much of their formidable speed with contrasting wins o...

Sandra Perkovic and Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed aside, there were five more world leads at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, and a rare Diamond League double from Blessing Okagbare in the long jump and 200m on Sunday (18).

In the 100 metres it pays to run your own race. At pretty well every other distance, it pays to be aware of your opposition, too. Amantle Montsho and Taoufik Makhloufi appeared to forget this at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, and they pai...

All the predictions of who would win the 24th edition of the Nordea Riga Marathon had pointed to a Kenyan runner winning in the Latvian capital for the fourth year in succession but Japan s Yu Chiba had not been listening to the pundits and triumphed a...

Friday, 16 May, will remain engraved in the mind of IAAF President Lamine Diack who finally fulfilled his lifetime wish to return to Champagnole, a small French town of approximately 8400 inhabitants tucked in the midst of the magnificent forests of th...

With the men s high jump being one of the main events in the past two editions of the IAAF Diamond League in Lausanne, the 2014 Athletissima meeting will once again will gather together the best exponents of this event in the world, the meeting organis...