You could have been excused for not noticing Chinese javelin thrower Zhao Qinggang at the last IAAF World Championships - he managed just over 77 metres in qualifying and failed to make the final - but following his phenomenal throw of 89.15m to win th...

US runners Garrett Heath and Chris Derrick repeated their success of 12 months ago when they ran out as winners again at the Great Edinburgh XCountry, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting, on Saturday (10).

Renaud Lavillenie, the 2014 World Athlete of the Year and world record-holder, opened his 2015 campaign in fine style when he went over 5.80m at the Capitale Perche competition in the French town of Aubiere on Saturday (10).

The pole vault promises to be one of the highlights of the Karlsruhe Indoor Meeting on 31 January as world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie will take on world champion Raphael Holzdeppe at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

World record-holder Ashton Eaton will make his Hypo-Meeting debut in Gotzis on 30 May when he takes on defending champion Trey Hardee at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge meeting.

Less than a month after winning her first continental title, European cross-country champion Gemma Steel has already set her sights on making her mark at two global championships in 2015 as well as tackling a new distance.

Organisers of the Boston Marathon have announced the elite US field for the 119th edition of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on 20 April.

When Meseret Defar and Bernard Lagat compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on 7 February, both will be marking milestones in their careers at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

In the first of a new series of features, world and Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton looks at all the best aspects of his life as an elite athlete.

USA s Dathan Ritzenhein and Kenya s Janet Kisa took the honours on Tuesday (6) in San Giorgio su Legnano at the 58th edition of the Campaccio cross-country race, the first of two Italian IAAF Cross Country Permit meetings.