Kenya s Geoffrey Mutai, the 2011 Boston Marathon champion and two-time New York Marathon champion, will return to the Ottawa 10K on 24 May and run the event for the third consecutive year, the event organisers announced on Wednesday (15).

Ethiopia s Atsedu Tsegay will return to the Sportisino Prague Half Marathon on 5 April, the race where he made his name when he ran a course record 58:47 in 2012, organisers of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced on Thursday (16).

Kenya s Jason Mbote will be the fastest man on the start line of the 63rd Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon on 2 February, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, after race organisers announced their elite field on Thursday (16).

US teenage prodigy Mary Cain broke the long-standing world junior indoor record for 1000m with a time of 2:39.25 at the Boston University Multi-Team Meet in Boston on Thursday night (16).

The 32nd Cross Internacional de Italica in Santiponce on the outskirts of the Spanish city of Seville, an IAAF Cross Country Permit Meeting, will see Uganda s Timothy Toroitich and Ethiopia s Hiwot Ayalew start as favourites on Sunday (19).

Injury kept Abubaker Kaki out of action for almost all of 2013, but the two-time world indoor champion from Sudan will face a stern test when he races two-time European indoor champion Adam Kszczot on 9 February at the Flanders Indoor meeting in Gent, ...