Robert Harting again got the upper hand over his regular rival Piotr Malachowski when the three-time world champion threw a season s best of 68.36m in the fifth round to extend his lead to more than three metres over the rest of the field at the IAAF D...
Jun 6th 2014, 5:58am
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Kaliese Spencer continued to consolidate her status as the best 400m hurdler in the world at this early stage in the season with a world-leading run of 53.97 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday (5).
Jun 6th 2014, 5:58am
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The pre-event publicity mainly centred around the fact that the men s high jump had one of the classier fields ever assembled outside of a major global championship and it lived up to the hype as Qatar s world indoor champion Mutaz Essa Barshim soared ...
Jun 6th 2014, 5:58am
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Jamaica s 2013 IAAF World Athlete of the Year Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bounced back from her disappointing eighth place over 200m at the at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene at the weekend with a 100m win at the fourth edition of the Gal dei Ca...
Jun 4th 2014, 5:12pm
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World records are hard to come by in athletics and elite competitors usually avoid such talk, but such has been the depth of the men s high jump in the past two years that nobody would be surprised if Bohdan Bondarenko or Ivan Ukhov or even perhaps M...
Jun 4th 2014, 5:12pm
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There have been nine world records in the history of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea since the meeting came into being in 1980 and there are quiet hopes that at the fourth in the 2014 IAAF Diamond League series such a tally will reach double figures on T...
Jun 4th 2014, 5:12pm
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Although it is a relatively new race, it is still something of a surprise that before this year no Kenyan athlete had ever won the Lanzhou Marathon. But in the fourth edition of the IAAF Bronze Label Road Race on Sunday (1), both races were won by Keny...
Jun 4th 2014, 5:12pm
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Ashton Eaton, widely regarded as the world s greatest athlete, will make his Norwegian debut at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games on 11 June in what will be his first appearance at an IAAF Diamond League meeting in European soil.
Jun 4th 2014, 5:12pm
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World indoor 60m hurdles champion Nia Ali is returning to the heptathlon. It s a vow that Ali made after winning the 2011 NCAA 100m hurdles title during her last season at the University of Southern California.
Jun 4th 2014, 5:12pm
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