Big-time indoor athletics returned to the Czech capital Prague for the first time in five years and high jumpers stole the show at the 02 Arena, with Ivan Ukhov jumping an absolute Russian record and 2014 world-leading height of 2.42m on Tuesday (25).

World cross-country champion Japhet Korir and world steeplechase champion Milcah Chemos are the latest big names to sign up for the SPAR Great Ireland Run, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, in Dublin on 6 April.

Eight athletes will represent Kenya at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot on 7-9 March.

Ethiopia will send 11 athletes, including two reserves, to the IAAF World Indoor Championships next month in the Polish city of Sopot.

IAAF World Athletes of the Year Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce are among the nominees for the 2014 Laureus World Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards.

In Istanbul two years ago, the US team dominated the medals table with 10 golds and twice as many medals than any other nation. At this year s IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, they will once again be the nation to beat.

A career in athletics was always a logical fit for Sergey Shubenkov, whose mother, Natalya, was one of the world's best heptathletes in the 1980s. But the world 110m hurdles bronze medallist s calling in track and field didn t necessarily beckon at first.

A quality line-up has been assembled for 6 April as the Brighton Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, welcomes its most outstanding men s elite field to date.

Defence Club athletes Tsebelu Zewde and Genet Yalew churned out impressive victories in Addis Ababa on Sunday (23) at the Ethiopian Half Marathon Championships, the official trials for the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen next month.

The French Athletics Federation (FFA) has announced a list of seven athletes who will compete at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot next month.