Germany s Carolin Schafer and Ukraine s Oleksiy Kasyanov are the overnight leaders in Talence at the Decastar meeting, part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge, after a string of solid performances on Saturday (20).

Gebo Burka and Biruktayit Eshetu came into the Blackmores Sydney Marathon with contrasting form lines, but both emerged as winners to complete a double victory for Ethiopia in the IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Sunday (21).

Kenya s Linet Masai and John Mwangangi were the strongest athletes in the battle against the northern headwind in the Dam tot Damloop, a point-to-point IAAF Silver Label Road Race over 10 miles between Amsterdam and Zaandam.

Before embarking on a visit to a remote Moroccan mountain village early last Sunday for an IAAF / Nestl Healthy Kids Athletics event, most of the guests including several current and former champion athletes from Morocco and elsewhere didn t know...

Ten years on from the Athenian drama of the 2004 Olympic men s 1500m final, Hicham El Guerrouj was still playing catch up.

On a dusty track occupied by armed soldiers and military hardware in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe just a matter of weeks after civil war broke out, Dilshod Nazarov weaved in and out of armoured tanks and personnel carriers.