It is expected that every one of the 15,000 seats in Ostrava s newly revamped Mestsky Stadium will be filled on Tuesday (26), largely due to the presence of one man: Usain Bolt.

Cuba s Rose Mary Almanza set a personal best of 1:59.35 to win the 800m at the Ponce Grand Prix on Saturday (23) to break the oldest women s meeting record on the books.

At Friday s pre-event press conference for the Ottawa 10km, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, Kenya s Gladys Cherono admitted she was now considering herself a marathoner having run 2:20:03 and finishing second in Dubai this past January.

For the second year in a row at the Mattoni Karlovy Vary Half Marathon, both course records were broken at the IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Saturday (23).

Had it not been for an extra 0.1m/s of wind, Ivory Coast s Marie-Josee Ta Lou would have come away from the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Dakar on Saturday (23) with a big PB in the 100m.

Better known as a winter sports nation, Austria is yet to win a medal at a global age-group athletics championships. But that could all change at the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015.

All eyes at the AA Drink FBK Games will be on Dafne Schippers when she lines up for the 100m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Hengelo on Sunday (24).

For Javan Martin, only one thing will suffice when he travels to Colombia for the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015 in July.

The IAAF is deeply saddened to learn that Anna Rita Sidoti, the 1997 world 10,000m race walking champion, died on Wednesday (20) after battling breast cancer. She was 45 years old.

The IAAF World Challenge meeting in Dakar will see Caster Semenya s first international race of 2015 when she contests the 800m on Saturday (23).