Mikhail Akimenko of Russia won the men s high jump with a 2.24m clearance after an intense competition which saw the top four jumpers all record personal best clearances.

Alena Lutkovskaya won one of two gold medals for Russia on Thursday (24) at the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014 when she prevailed in the most competitive women s pole vault ever contested in the 28-year history of the event.

Athletics fans of a certain generation will remember the 60s worldwide hit ‘Friday On My Mind and more than a few were humming The Easybeats' famous standard in Hayward Field after Trentavis Friday took the 200m title at the IAAF World Junior Ch...

Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe became the eighth Kenyan man to win the world junior 1500m title when he kicked away from his team-mate Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich on the homestretch to reach the finish in 3:40.02.

A look ahead to the women’s throws events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
Shot
Valerie Adams is the clearest favourite for gold in any event in Glasgow.
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A look ahead to the men’s throws events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
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Young Kiwi prodigy Jacko Gill may have been stealing all the headlines in recent years, but his team-mate Tom Walsh suddenly came to prominence last winter and st...

A look ahead to the women’s jumps events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
High jump
Levern Spencer leads the St Lucia team in Glasgow and in this season s Commonwealth rankings she leads the high jump entries too with her 1.96m clearance fr...

A look ahead to the men’s jumps events at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games
High jump
Derek Drouin goes into the men s high jump as the clear favourite, the Canadian having set his 2.40m personal best and Commonwealth record in Des Moines, USA,...