European marathon champion Daniele Meucci and high jumpers Marco Fassinotti and Alessia Trost are among the 34 confirmed athletes on Italy s team for the IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015.

Olympic champion and world 110m hurdles record-holder Aries Merritt offers his verdict some important elements to his life, both on and off the track.

Slovenian runners Nejc Kuhar and Karmen Klancnik took the honours on home soil at the 17th edition of Gorski tek na Grintovec mountain running race, the third stage of 2015 Mountain Running World Cup, in Kamnik on Sunday (26).

World champions Raphael Holzdeppe and David Storl were among the leading performers at the German Championships in Nurnberg, which concluded on Sunday (26) after three days of action.

Kenya s Stanley Biwott dominated a quality field with an imperious solo performance to win the Bogota Half Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in 1:03:15 on Sunday (26).

There was a moment halfway through the men s 400m on the second day of the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London on Saturday when Wayde van Niekerk must have wondered what was going on.