Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai was presented with his second consecutive male AIMS/ASICS World Athlete of the Year award in Ras al-Khaimah on Thursday (14).

Former 100m world record-holder Asafa Powell has been confirmed to run in the men’s 100m at the 2013 Qantas Melbourne World Challenge on Saturday April 6, the opening leg of the IAAF World Challenge series.

Kenyans Lucy Kabuu and Geoffrey Kipsang turned the world Half-marathon rankings on their head at the RAK Half marathon, which produced some of the greatest races ever in terms of depth.

Kseniya Ustalova and Sergey Shubenkov shot straight to the top of the 2013 season lists with their winning performances at the Russian Indoor Championships, held at the Vladimir Kutz Arena in Moscow.

The race to the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships enters its final lap this Saturday (16) when Kenya holds the KCB Nairobi Cross, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting, which doubles as the selection event for the March 24 global showpiece.

Uganda’s Docus Inzikuru, winner of the inaugural women’s World 3000m Steeplechase title in 2005, will make her debut over 26.2 miles on April 14 at the Brighton Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race.