Organisers of the opening IAAF World Challenge meeting of 2015, in the Australian city of Melbourne, have had little difficulty enticing 800m world record holder and London 2012 Olympic Games champion David Rudisha back to their meeting on 21 March.

Defending champion Bazu Worku will return to this year s Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on Sunday 1 March, organisers for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced on Friday (13).

Chris Derrick became the first runner since eventual eight-time champion Pat Porter to win three titles in successive years at the USATF Cross Country Championships on the Flatirons Golf Course in Boulder, Colorado, on Saturday (7).

The spotlight in the Czech town of Trinec was on Mutaz Essa Barshim after his Asian indoor record of 2.40m over the border in Slovakia on Wednesday but the Qatari's thunder was stolen at the 23rd Beskydska latka high jump meeting by Russia s 2014 world...

Kenyan marathoners Eliud Kipchoge, Mary Keitany and Priscah Jeptoo headline the ninth edition of the RAK Half Marathon which will be staged on an even faster course on Friday (13).

Next up to talk about the best things in her life is Brazil s former world pole vault champion, both indoors and outdoors, Fabiana Murer.
Murer also improved her South American indoor record to 4.83m in Nevers, France, on Saturday (7).