Until the Diamond League meeting in London two weeks ago, the last major track and field event before Moscow, Zuzana Hejnova was not the quickest in the world this year at the 400m hurdles.

Mo Farah has been living the dream: double Olympic champion and a triple European champion. Now arrives the next part of the mission, and the chance to put right the agonising moment gold was snatched from his grasp.

In the final part of our look back at some of the great European moments in the history of the IAAF World Championships, which start in Moscow on Saturday, the clock is rewound to 1995.

Lavillenie eyes a double and then a tripleOn the first morning in Moscow on Saturday, Renaud Lavillenie will take centre stage. If all goes to plan he hopes to sail one step closer to pole vault domination.

The second part of our nostalgia countdown series of great European performances at the IAAF World Championships takes us back to the high jump world record that still remains.

Mariya Savinova has a record to match the best: five major gold medals. The full set are the property of the sport's leading woman 800m runner and it surely does not get better than that.