Vitezslav Vesely isn t the most consistent of throwers, but the world champion can often throw long when it counts and he won his first competition outside his native Czech Republic for more than a year when he unleashed a terrific second-round throw o...

Yomif Kejelcha, amazingly still only 17, became the first runner to run faster than 13 minutes in the 5000m this year when he beat a strong field to win in 12:58.39 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome on Thursday (4).

Sprinters from Qatar produced the most eye-catching performances on the second day of the Asian Championships in Wuhan on Thursday (4) with 18-year-old Abdalelah Haroun claiming the 400m title and Femi Ogunode setting an Asian record in the men s 100m.

The course for the IAAF/Cardiff University World Half Marathon Championships, Cardiff 2016 was revealed on Wednesday (3).

A mouth-watering line-up has been assembled at the Gran Premio Cantones de Marcha the Spanish leg of the 2015 IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Saturday (6) in La Coruna, a city which has annually hosted this world-class competition since 1987.

China won four of the eight gold medals on offer on the opening day of the Asian Championships in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday (3).