It seemed like it was all over for Carolina Kl ft a week earlier than expected when she failed to make the top three in the Swedish championships at the weekend.

Jimmy Vicaut almost caused a big upset at the Helsinki European Athletics Championships when fellow Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre struggled to beat him.

The 10th jubilee Athletics Bridge – Zdenek Hrbacek Memorial, a European Athletics Outdoor Classic Meeting, saw meeting records in seven events in rainy weather conditions in front of a capacity crowd of 5000 in Dubnica, Slovakia, on Sunday evening.

German Bjorn Otto won the Leverkusen Pole Vault meet with a best effort of 5.71m.

European champion and Olympic high jump bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz will head to next Thursday's Diamond League final in Zurich with a great chance of winning the 'Diamond Race' after defeating Russia's Ivan Ukhov in Birmingham on Sunday.

Legendary Russian long and triple jumper Tatyana Lebedeva has said that she is considering ending her career after the 2013 World Championships, which will be held in Moscow.