The first of two IAAF Diamond League finals will take place at the famous Weltklasse meeting in Zurich with no fewer than 16 Diamond Races to be concluded on Thursday.

Tirunesh Dibaba, the Ethiopian who holds the world and Olympic 10,000m titles, will renew her rivalry with Kenya s Edna Kiplagat when she lines up in the Bupa Great North Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday 7 September.

It might be a slight exaggeration to say Youth Olympic Games champion Angelica Moser was born to pole vault, but if you were to put together all the ingredients to cook up the prototype athlete for her event, then she would be it.

The traditional press conference the day before any IAAF Diamond League meeting saw four athletes who had made their mark in Zurich at the European Championships earlier in August take the stage to talk about their achievements in the Swiss city and lo...

One of the most compelling rivalries of this year s IAAF Diamond League season is set to resume at the Sainsbury s Birmingham Grand Prix when Bohdan Bondarenko does battle again with Mutaz Essa Barshim on Sunday (24).

Mutaz Essa Barshim won the latest high jump battle with his arch rival Bogdan Bondarenko at the Sainsbury s Birmingham Grand Prix, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, as both men cleared 2.38m in another high quality contest that caught the imagination of ...