Editing a statistics handbook for a global athletics event focuses the mind wonderfully on the new facts and figures which might emerge at the championships about to unfold.

Ukraine will send 14 athletes to the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 on March 17-20.

After scoring a historic sweep in 2015, the host country Mexico is ready to face the rest of the world as 165 athletes from 18 nations descend on Ciudad Juarez for the second stop of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Sunday (6).

With two weeks to go until the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016, the IAAF and local organisers have promised a global athletics competition like no other.

David Rudisha s Olympic gold medal in the 800m four years ago in London could scarcely have been more impressive, leading every step of the way to a world record of 1:40.91.

Four years ago, Alexandra Wester s athletics career seemed all but over.