In the wake of his marathon world record* at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in Berlin on Sunday, Dennis Kimetto had some bad news for his rivals.

Ehsan Hadidi got Iran s first gold medal of the athletics programme when he won the men's discus for the third successive Games on the fourth day of the athletics at the Asian Games in the South Korean city of Inchon on Tuesday (30).

His winning mark in Talence last month may not have been one of his highest scores to date, but Mikk Pahapill didn t mind. He was simply happy to get through the decathlon in one piece.

The men s and women s 800m finals at the Asian Games in Inchon on Wednesday (1), the fifth day of athletics, could not have been more different.

Defending champion Vincent Kipruto will return to the BMW Frankfurt Marathon on 26 October, but he will face a pair of Ethiopians with sub-2:05 bests at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race.

They were already leading the athletics medal table at the Asian Games in the Korean city of Inchon, but China went from strength to strength on Thursday (2), adding four more gold medals to their tally.