On the back of their success at their home Olympic and Paralympic Games, UK Athletics (UKA) have been rewarded on the path towards Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

Six medal winners from the recent SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Budapest will contend at the 20th Iris Lotto Crosscup in Brussels next Sunday.

European Athletics is pleased to announce that Portuguese duo of Ana Dulce Felix and Jose Rocha have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for November.

Jessica Ennis' year of recognition goes on after she finished second behind Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins in the BBC Sports Personality of The Year.

Russian Ivan Ukhov is one of the most consistent stars of world athletics and it will not be long before he is back in action.

Lucia Klocova has been named as the Slovak athlete of the year - but now her life is about to change in more ways than one.

The countdown is on for the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in March - and one woman will be determined to be part of it.

It has become one of the most respected honours on the circuit and after their glory at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London, Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and David Weir are among the nominations for the 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards.

Balkan Athletics has been making strong strides forward recently with a new sponsorship contract, a succesful Athlete of the Year Awards Gala and a recent reception by Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic of European Athletics President Hansj rg Wirz.

At the European Athletics Awards Night in St Julian's, Malta, Charlotte Svensen of Norway received the 2012 European Athletics Innovation Award on behalf of the Norwegian athletic federation team behind the programme entitled Ung:Leder – To Creat...