Bernard Lagat provided the highlight of the 107th NYRR Millrose Games, the oldest invitational athletics meeting in the USA, when he set a US 2000m indoor record of 4:54.74 at the Armory in New York on Saturday (15).

Some shrewd investing by Ethiopian runners Feyera Gemeda and Rehima Kedir paid off handsomely when they won at the 2014 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Sunday (16).

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)

High jumpers hit the heights and provided the headlines at the 2014 Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou, China, this weekend (15/16), with Qatar s 2013 IAAF World Championships silver medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim clearing a season s best of 2.36m.

The coolest weather in almost 20 years this week means that runners in the Standard Chartered Hong Marathon on Sunday (16) could have their most temperate weather since the IAAF Silver Label Road Race was re-launched in 1997.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce had a phenomenal 2013 even by her own exalted standards, winning both the 100m and 200m double at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, as well as helping Jamaica to gold in the 4x100m relay.