USA s Bershawn Jackson won the Diamond Race in the 400m hurdles last year. The two-time world champion reflects on some firsts in his career both on and off the track.

Vincent Rono continued to impress in the build-up to the Kenyan Cross Country Championships with a hard-fought win over a distinguished field at the Kenya Prisons Services Cross Country Championships at the Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi on Saturday (23).

Bahrain s Aweke Ayalew and Kenya s Irene Cheptai produced convincing victories at the 73rd Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza, the fifth of this winter s IAAF Cross Country Permit meetings, in the Spanish town of Elgoibar on Sunday (24).

In the first of an anticipated series of high-profile pole vault contests this winter, Raphael Holzdeppe defeated Renaud Lavillenie and Shawn Barber in front of a capacity crowd at the Perche Elite Tour in Rouen on Saturday (23).

Going into the IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015, Antonella Palmisano wasn t even expected to be the highest Italian finisher in her event. But she left the Chinese capital as the top-performing woman on her national team.

In his first official appearance as the new Diamond League Chairman, IAAF President Sebastian Coe visited Doha the host city of the first 2016 IAAF Diamond League competition on Friday (22).