Kenya s world half marathon champions Gladys Cherono and Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor will start as favourites for the 15th edition of the Bogota International Half Marathon on Sunday (27).
China s Guo Tianqian confirmed her status as favourite with a dominant victory. The 2011 world youth champion and 2014 world junior leader was a class apart, producing the only 17-metre efforts of the afternoon. She took the lead with her opening 16.96...
Poland s Konrad Bukowiecki tossed the 6kg implement out to national junior record of 22.06m in the second round to set the standard for the men s shot put final, then followed it up with 22.01m in the third and a monster foul in the fourth to underline...
Wilhem Belocian of France became the first junior athlete to ever run the 110m hurdles faster than 13 seconds when he clocked 12.99 over the 99cm barriers to produce the second world junior record of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014.
Trentavis Friday of the USA blasted out of the blocks and rode a 2.3m/s tailwind to a 20.04 victory, becoming USA's first world junior champion in the men's 200m since 1994.
Kaylin Whitney became the third US female sprinter in the past decade to win the world junior 200m title and the 16-year-old Florida high school student did it in a commanding way with a wind-assisted 22.82 (2.4m/s).
Wang Jianan led the first Asian men s field event medal sweep in the history of the IAAF World Junior Championships and in the process he also became the second Chinese athlete to win the long jump world junior title with 8.08m.
Gilda Casanova of Cuba and Kendall Baisden of the USA arrived in the homestretch of the women s 400m final almost even, but it was Baisden who had enough left to scratch her way to the lead and take the victory.
