A near one-metre improvement enabled US shot putter Adrian Piperi to secure the first gold medal of the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 inside a breezy Pascual Guerrero Stadium on Wednesday evening (15).

41 world and 22 Olympic champions will re-open the Olympic Stadium with a fantastic weekend of IAAF Diamond League athletics at the Sainsbury s Anniversary Games on 24-25 July.

Barely 30 minutes after the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 got under way in the Colombian city, jaws dropped in the Pascual Guerrero stadium as Japan s Abdul Hakim Sani Brown sped to a championship record of 10.30 in the first heat of the 10...

With just over two weeks until Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics, it was announced that the fastest woman in the world this year will head to the Swedish capital for the IAAF Diamond League meeting on 30 July.

The IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 gets under way in the Colombian city on Wednesday (15), and you can follow all the action on the IAAF website.

With a modest 3:58.77 career best to his credit, Colombian 1500m runner Carlos Santiago Hernandez won t necessarily start as the man to beat when his event at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 gets underway on Wednesday (15).