Host nation Russia regained their title from defending champions Germany at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary, which concluded on Sunday (21).

Cuba s Yordanis Garcia claimed his third consecutive title and Yorgelis Rodriguez regained hers at the NACAC Capital Cup Combined Events Invitational, an IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting, held in Ottawa on June 19-20.

Eleven seconds is a barrier only a small handful of women beat each year in the 100m; the benchmark of the world s elite. But never before has a 16-year-old covered the 100m within that time.

Mary Keitany emerged triumphant from the Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon to break the course record by more than two minutes, while Josphat Kiptis upstaged his more experienced rivals to win the men s contest at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Saturday ...

As expected, host nation Russia leads the team standings at the end of the first day of action at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary with world champion Aleksandr Menkov being one of five Russian winners on Saturday (20).

Since 2011, all global titles at 1500m and 5000m have been won by just three men. That trio of Asbel Kiprop, Mo Farah and Taoufik Makhloufi will head to the Herculis meeting to contest the 1500m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 17 July.