In a country as replete with top class heptathletes as Germany, Anna Maiwald will not be going to the IAAF World Championships in Beijing next month, but the University of Koln health economics research student proved to be top of her class in her even...
Kazakhstan s 100m champion Viktoriya Zyabkina added the 200m title to her medal tally in Gwangju on Friday (10), becoming the first woman since 1987 to achieve the sprint double at the World University Games.
It became increasingly clear during Thursday s outstanding IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne s Stade De La Pontaise that something very interesting is going on in the men s field events.
The first medal of the 2015 European Under-23 Championships went to Ali Kaya of Turkey, who wasted no time stamping his authority of the men s 10,000m final on the first night of competition in Tallinn on Thursday (9).
The world's biggest athletics superstar, Usain Bolt, will lead a stellar global cast at the re-opening of the London Olympic Stadium for the IAAF Diamond League meeting on Friday 24 July.
Two months after their historic performances in Doha, Christian Taylor and Pedro Pablo Pichardo provided a packed crowd at Lausanne s Athletissima meeting with another stupendous night of IAAF Diamond League triple jumping on Thursday (9).
For most of the 800m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Thursday (9), it looked as though Olympic champion and world record-holder David Rudisha was going to follow up his victory in New York exactly according to plan.
Anna Chicherova lay flat on her back on the high jump landing pit at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Thursday (9), arms out, face full of surprise.
