As the stadium anthem reverberated through the 168th Street Armory in Upper Manhattan, Mary Cain punched the sides of her legs with clenched fists and whispered, “Come on!” to herself as she turned back toward the starting line.

Sammy Kitwara took his fourth title while Joyce Chepkirui savoured her first as they completed a Kenyan at the 16th World’s Best 10K, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan on Sunday (27).

Kenya’s Sammy Kitwara is eying a fourth title while Sentayehu Ejigu and Joyce Chepkirui are set for a showdown at the 16th World’s Best 10K, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday (27) afternoon on the Teodoro Moscoso bridge in the Puerto ...

Olympic champions Meseret Defar and Mo Farah gave another glimpse of their future potential on the roads when winning the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon in New Orleans on Sunday (24), both athletes breaking the course records.

In his final competition before the defence of his European indoor title, Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie gave himself the perfect confidence-booster at the National Indoor Meeting in Metz on Sunday (24).

World Marathon bronze medallist Feyisa Lilesa and steeplechaser Hiwot Ayalew took impressive victories at the 30th Jan Meda International – Ethiopia’s trials for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships – in Addis Ababa on Sunday (24).