The second morning of action at the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 on Wednesday (20) saw a host of leading sprinters take to the track for the first time, while the men s decathlon progressed towards what is set to be a nail-biting finish.

Konrad Bukowiecki lived up to his role as championships poster boy flawlessly, breaking the world U20 record in the shot put* to highlight the opening day of the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 on Tuesday (19).

From the outset, Kenya s Rodgers Chumo Kwemoi stamped his authority on this race, charging to the front and pulling the field through the opening kilometre in 2:52.67.

Niklas Kaul has ended the first day of the decathlon in sixth place, almost 200 points behind current leader Maksim Andraloits, but the German is on course to take gold.

Konrad Bukowiecki capped the first evening of the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 by shattering the world U20 record* in the third round of the shot put final.

China s Ma Zhenxia is just 17 years old, but already she owns four major global titles.

The provisional entry lists for the 10th meeting of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League in London on 22-23 July are now available.

Qualification was a formality for reigning shot put champion Konrad Bukowiecki on the first morning of the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 on Tuesday (19).

Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie and European 100m record-holder Jimmy Vicaut are two of many leading French athletes set to compete on 27 August at the Meeting de Paris, the 12th stop of this year's IAAF Diamond League.

Two weeks after finishing an uncharacteristic third at the Kenyan Olympic Trials, world and Olympic champion David Rudisha returned to winning ways by running a world-leading 1:43.35 in the 800m at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar on Monday...