Poland s Anna Rogowska went to the top of the 2014 women s pole vault list when she cleared a world-leading 4.76m at the Flanders Indoor meeting, an IAAF Permit meeting, on Sunday (9).

Eleni Gebrehiwot's margin of supremacy wasn't as decisive as last year but the German-based Ethiopian still ran out a dominant winner at the ING Eurocross in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday (9).

London 2012 Olympic Games 400m champion Kirani James, from Grenada, has proved to be one of the genuine superstars of global athletics in the past few seasons.

USA's Ashton Eaton has acquired all the multi-event honours the sport has to offer in the past two years.

When the drug testers called at 6.50am a few weeks ago, not even Robbie Heffernan s dog barked.

The 38th edition of the famous Arnstadt high jump meeting in Germany was arguably the best with the Russian pair of Ivan Ukhov and Aleksey Dmitrik both going over a meeting record of 2.40m on Saturday (8).