The traditional Moscow Christmas Cup meeting on Sunday (12) saw two world-leading performances from a pair of Svetlanas: middle distance runner Svetlana Karamysheva and long jumper Svetlana Biryukova.

The 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships long jump gold medallist Godfrey Mokoena answers the IAAF s Work, Rest, Play questions.

Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill is expecting her first child and will skip the 2014 season.

The three reigning 3000m world indoor medallists will clash over the same distance on 1 February at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe, the first leg of the 2013 IAAF Indoor Permit series.

Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov was frsutrated to finish outside the medals at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, but on Saturday (11) in Novocheboksarsk he brushed aside the disappointment of last year with a world-leading leap of 2.38m.

It was a day for the USA at Holyrood Park on Saturday (11) as Garrett Heath upset African stars Asbel Kiprop and Kenenisa Bekele in the invitational 4km race at the Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting.