Five days after celebrating her 34th birthday, Cuba s three-time world hammer champion Yipsi Moreno brought to an end her outstanding career on Monday (24).

As usual it is a great pleasure for me to be with you today as we celebrate the best athletes of the year, to look back on the year as a whole, the successes and challenges we have faced but it is also a special occasion for me as this will be my last ...

Renaud Lavillenie and Valerie Adams were crowned the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Gala on Friday night (21), a fitting climax to their stunning seasons.

USA s Max King and Great Britain s Ellie Greenwood took the gold medals at the IAU 100km World Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Friday (21).

Ethiopia s Guye Adola ran a course record and personal best of of 59:06, the third fastest time of the year, to win the airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday (23).

Here is the first of the IAAF website s weekly round-ups of the major cross-country races around the world in the coming months, in addition to individual previews and reports of the IAAF Cross Country Permit meetings, as we begin the build-up towards ...