They won the first and last events of the weekend, but in between those victories hosts Africa could not hold off the might of the two strongest teams in the IAAF Continental Cup as Europe lifted the team trophy at the end of two days of competition in...

With a late injury knocking defending champion Valerie Adams out to the sidelines, the role of favourite fell easily into the lap of European champion Christina Schwanitz, and she played it perfectly.

As expected, Renaud Lavillenie was the easy winner in the men s pole vault, earning maximum points for Europe.

Ignisious Gaisah may have been a late replacement for world leader Greg Rutherford, but who needs the Olympic and European champion when you have a flying Dutchman?

She diced with disaster, and left it mighty late, but two-time European champion Eloyse Lesueur snatched long jump victory for Europe with a fourth-round leap of 6.66m after producing three fouls on her first three attempts.

Running on slippery streets in strong rain at the Mattoni Usti nad Labem Half Marathon, Ethiopia s Adugna Takele and Kenya s Correti Jepkoech took top honours at the IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Sunday (14).