Some shrewd investing by Ethiopian runners Feyera Gemeda and Rehima Kedir paid off handsomely when they won at the 2014 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, on Sunday (16).

A touch of hamstring soreness kept Sally Pearson out of a second flat sprint clash with Melissa Breen, but nothing was going to stop the Olympic champion putting down a marker in her flagship hurdles event at the Perth Track Classic on Saturday (22).

The last time Ruth Beitia cleared two metres was in the 2012 Olympic high jump final. Despite producing one of the best marks of her career, in a high-quality competition it was only good enough for fourth place.

The latest instalment of the rivalry between Bernard Lagat and Galen Rupp followed a similar pattern on Saturday evening (23) on the second day of the USA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Kenya s Dickson Chumba and Tirfi Tsegaye smashed the course records at the 2014 Tokyo Marathon on Sunday (23), recording respective times of 2:05:42 and 2:22:23 at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race.

Sandra Arenas and Eider Arevalo produced a double win for Colombia in the 20km, while Jose Leyver secured a home win in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua on Saturday (22) during the third leg of the 2014 IAAF Race Walking Challenge.