French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie set a world record* of 6.16m at the Pole Vault Stars meeting in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Saturday (15).

Following in the footsteps of Renaud Lavillenie and Genzebe Dibaba indoors on Saturday, the world records continued to fall this weekend as Kenya s Florence Kiplagat stopped the clock in 1:05:12 at the eDreams Mitja Marat de Barcelona on Sunday (16)

Almensch Belete took the spoils on home soil at the sixth leg of the Lotto CrossCup in Rotselaar, Belgium, on Sunday (16).

Ecuador s Rolando Saquipay provided the headlines at the 2014 South American Race Walking Championships in the Bolivian city of Cochabama this weekend (15/16) by winning the men s 20km event and relegating Guatemala s London 2012 Olympic Games silver m...

Haile Gebrselassie, the man regarded by many as the greatest distance runner of all time, will be the main pacemaker for the men s race at the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday 13 April, race organisers announced on Monday (17).

The ERGO Arena, the venue for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the Polish city of Sopot, was officially opened on Sunday (16) and almost 6000 people flocked to the stadium to get a glimpse of where the most important athletics event of the y...