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).

The African team arrives with a strong 1-2 punch, led by Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia who will start as the favourite.

Kenyan runners have dominated the men s race of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon for more than a decade as the past 12 champions of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race have all come from Kenya.

Asia-Pacific representative Albert Rop is the fastest man in the field in 2014, thanks to a 13:06.44 clocking at the IAAF Diamond League event in Eugene in June, but the 22-year-old Kenyan-born Bahraini runner faces a host of threats in what promises t...

For the second year in succession, Poland s Anita Wlodarczyk won the women s IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, while Krisztian Pars beat last year s winner Pawel Fajdek in the men s contest.

Although she didn t quite live up the lofty hype thrust upon her after producing a pair of sensational world indoor records earlier this year, Genzebe Dibaba has performed admirably over distances ranging from 1500m to 5000m and will be the woman to be...