After setting a pair of scintillating world indoor records earlier in the year, much was expected of Genzebe Dibaba outdoors in 2014. With mixed results over the course of the summer, the 23-year-old didn t quite live up to those lofty expectations whi...

Isiah Koech, still only 20, added his name to an illustrious list of 5000m champions at the IAAF World and Continental Cup, none more so than Morocco s own hero Said Aouita, who won this event at the World Cup in 1989.

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?

As expected, Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia took top honours in the triple jump, the first woman to ever take the World Cup or Continental Cup triple jump title for the Americas.

At the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Birmingham three weeks ago, Ayanleh Souleiman was denied a place on the distinguished roll of honour in the Emsley Carr Mile by the fast-finishing Asbel Kiprop.

World leader Francena McCorory and Jamaica s Novlene Williams-Mills lived up to expectations as they notched up maximum points for Americas, finishing first and second respectively ahead of Europe s Italian representative Libania Grenot.