European Athletics is pleased to announce that Ukrainian high jumper Bohdan Bondarenko and the Czech Republic's star hurdler Zuzana Hejnov have been voted as European Athletes of the Month for July.

Tatyana Lysenko defends her hammer gold medal in Moscow on Friday - just as the Russian crowd have come down to earth from the high of Yelena Isinbayeva's glory.

Christophe Lemaitre has been forced to bring his World Championships - and his season - to an early end because of injury.

It is not often a high jumper knocks the bar flying and then leaps up punching the air, celebrating, before being chased by photographers as he dives into his father's arms by the side of the track.

European Athletics stands on the brink of one of its finest days in the history of the IAAF World Championships.

Ireland s Rob Heffernan won an historic gold medal on day five of the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia. Heffernan literally had the walk of his life to win the 50km race walk World Championship title in a world-leading time of 3:37:56.

No Tatyana Chernova or Jessica Ennis-Hill but Europe still rules the heptathlon as Ukraine's overnight leader Hanna Melnychenko held on for gold in Moscow.

Yelena Isinbayeva was the toast of Russia in Moscow on Tuesday night when she turned back the clock to win World Championship pole vault gold.

Russia's Elena Lashmanova, who won gold on her Olympic debut last year, has on Tuesday morning repeated the feat at the IAAF World Championships with glory in the women's 20km walk.

To Russia, one event should take centre stage in the Luzhniki Stadium on Tuesday evening as pole vault world record-holder Yelena Isinbayeva bids for the gold that could mean more to her than any other.