Eight of the women who lined up for the 100m semi-finals had broken 11 seconds this year. All eight of those made it through to the final.

American athletics legends Ed Moses and Mike Powell were accompanied by their compatriot Dawn Harper, the 2008 Olympic Games gold medallist and silver medallist in London last summer to the third of the IAAF Ambassadors press conferences on Monday (12).

If the opening round heats had a distinctly American odour, the fragrance was unmistakably Russian after the semi-finals as Sergey Shubenkov led the qualifiers for the final later tonight.

After a very good Heptathlon High Jump competition, very little happened in the next event, the Shot Put. Most of the athletes were at their usual level with only a couple of favourites falling back from their previous results and no-one produced a big...

All season the men s 400m has looked to be a two-man race between Kirani James and LaShawn Merritt. It still may be, but after the semi-finals Saudi Arabia s Yousef Ahmed Masrahi and the Domincan Republic s Luguelin Santos showed that they, too, might ...

New Zealand s Valerie Adams, one of the hottest favourites of this year s IAAF World Championships, lived up to her billing with aplomb and secured an unprecedented fourth successive World title in the Shot Put with a best distance of 20.88m.

Sore legs or not, Jamaica s Usain Bolt was not about to let the IAAF World Championships 100m title slip away again Sunday night at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.

Renaud Lavillenie will have to wait two more years to take another stab at winning the World Championships gold medal that has so far eluded him and continues to do so in his glittering career.

As expected, Brianne Theisen Eaton of Canada grabbed the lead in the Heptathlon after the first event. The 24-year-old clocked 13.17 in the 100m Hurdles into a -0.6 m/s headwind, just 0.04 from her season s best and is leading the Heptathlon with 1099.

The women s Heptathlon went almost exactly as planned in the last event of day one, the 200m.