US record holder Emma Coburn beat her arch rival, world leader Hiwot Ayalew, to take eight points for Team Americas in the first track event of day two, avenging her defeat from two months ago when the two met at the IAAF Diamond League in Glasgow.
Since the start of June, LaShawn Merritt has lost just once in nine races and that reverse came in the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, when the US athlete finished second to the London 2012 Olympic Games champion Kirani James.
World leader and Diamond Race winner Jairus Birech finished off his stellar steeplechase season with another victory in the stadium where he won at the African Championships last month, clocking 8:13.18 to finish ahead of USA s Evan Jager.
Although they were never expected to be in the hunt for overall victory at the IAAF Continental Cup, Marrakech 2014, being the host nation certainly didn t harm Africa as they got off to a good start on the first day of action in Marrakech on Saturday ...
Scanning down the list of winners of the men s 800m in the combined 37-year history of the IAAF Continental Cup and its predecessor, the IAAF World Cup, one name is conspicuously absent.
The men s high jump had been billed as one of the focal points of this weekend in Marrakech and it certainly proved to be the top field event on Saturday.
By any measure, Renaud Lavillenie has had an incredible season, losing just once in 23 contests, completing a hat-trick of European Championship golds, and adding a fifth consecutive Diamond Race victory to the iconic pole vault world record he broke d...
James Dasaolu won the closest ever men s 100m at an IAAF Continental or World Cup to become the first British winner of this event since Linford Christie completed his World Cup hat-trick in 1994.
IAAF President Lamine Diack hailed the organisers of the IAAF Continental Cup, Marrakech 2014 ahead of the start of the two-day competition on Saturday but also said that he had a note of regret at the traditional pre-event press conference on Friday (...
