For the first time in five years, host nation Japan won the Chiba International Ekiden, a mixed six-stage relay held over the marathon distance on Monday (24), coming from behind to overhaul defending champions Kenya on the sixth and final stage.

Wude Ayalew and Azmeraw Bekele, both past winners of the event, won the men s and women s races respectively at the 2014 Great Ethiopian Run 10km in Addis Ababa on Sunday (23).

The 2014 Diamond Race long jump winner Tianna Bartoletta has enjoyed a lengthy career in the sport. The US sprinter-jumper answers some questions about her world at work, rest and play.

Hicham El Guerrouj and Robert Korzeniowski are among the 2014 inductees into the IAAF Hall of Fame and the two athletics legends faced the press in Monaco on Thursday (20).

Beating world record holder David Rudisha to win this year s Commonwealth Games 800m title was the hardest race of Nijel Amos s life, the 20-year-old Botswanan athlete revealed on the eve of the 2014 World Athletics Gala in Monaco on Thursday (20).

It s not often that four world record-holders in any given event are in the same room at the same time, but when it happens it is truly an extraordinary experience.