Expectations were high for Norwegian athletes going into the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, with reigning champion from Budapest Henrik Ingebrigsten and European Athlete of the Month of October Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal.

The Zatopek:10 is the Melbourne distance running community s night of nights, the premier distance meeting in a city that loves distance running, but the men and women in spikes were almost upstaged by a shot putter on Thursday (12).

The 2013 Boston Marathon champions, Ethiopia s Lelisa Desisa and Kenya s Rita Jeptoo, will defend their titles at the 118th running of the race on April 21, the organisers of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced on Wednesday (11).

One of the four gold medals won by US athletics legend Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was today sold at auction for $1,466,574.

Germany s popular 2013 IAAF World Championships Shot Put gold medallist David Storl is the latest big name to confirm that he will compete at the Indoor Meeting in Karlsruhe, the opening IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting of the winter, on 1 February.

Once again triple-jumper Marian Oprea has been named Romanian athlete of the year. He was rewarded for his terrific performance at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow where he came in sixth.