The fastest young talents in a decade are ready to challenge a 28-year-old defending champion and 39-year-old world champion at the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, over 5000m on 31 May.

The IAAF Diamond League opened in Doha on 9 May with one dominant thrower in action New Zealand s Valerie Adams notching her 46th straight victory in the women s shot put and now it s the turn of Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perkovic to try to im...

Having soared magnificently over a bar set at 6.16m in Donetsk three months ago, supplanting Sergey Bubka as world record-holder, France s Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie said in Shanghai on Saturday (17) that he is ready to go higher.

Moscow 2013 World champions Lashawn Merritt and Caterine Ibarguen confirmed their superb early season form as they improved their own world leading 400m and triple jump marks at the 8th Ponce Grand Prix, an IAAF World Challenge meeting, in Puerto Rico ...

Kenya s Bedan Karoki upset the Eritrean favourite and two-time defending champion Zersenay Tadese in the fourth annual Gifu Seiryu Half Marathon, to win in a new course record of 1:00:02 on Sunday (18).

It was no surprise when Sandra Perkovic produced a world lead in the women s discus at the IAAF Diamond League in Shanghai, but it was an absolute sensation when Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed came up with another in the men s javelin on Sunday (18).

On a warm and sometimes blustery morning at the Bupa Great Manchester Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, recent marathon debutantes Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele showed they haven't lost too much of their formidable speed with contrasting wins o...

Sandra Perkovic and Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed aside, there were five more world leads at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, and a rare Diamond League double from Blessing Okagbare in the long jump and 200m on Sunday (18).

In the 100 metres it pays to run your own race. At pretty well every other distance, it pays to be aware of your opposition, too. Amantle Montsho and Taoufik Makhloufi appeared to forget this at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, and they pai...

All the predictions of who would win the 24th edition of the Nordea Riga Marathon had pointed to a Kenyan runner winning in the Latvian capital for the fourth year in succession but Japan s Yu Chiba had not been listening to the pundits and triumphed a...