IAAF President Lamine Diack, TrackTown USA President Vin Lananna and USATF Chairman and President Stephanie Hightower spoke to the press ahead of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, which begins in Eugene on Tuesday (22).

Cuba s Yorgelis Rodriguez, the defending world junior heptathlon champion, did what she needed to do in the long jump, reaching 6.19m in the second round.

The IAAF Council presided over by President Lamine Diack is meeting Sunday 20 and Monday 21 July in the Valley River Inn, Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Czech Republic s Jiri Sykora has regained the lead in the decathlon after dominating the discus with 48.55m, a personal best by nearly three metres.

The Netherlands Nadine Visser ran a sparkling 13.24, just 0.03 off her national junior record over the barrers, to lead the heptathlon after the first event, the 100m hurdles.

Anezka Drahotova couldn t hide her joy following her world junior record* in the 10,000m race walk, the first of the IAAF World Junior Championships, Oregon 2014, but is already setting bigger goals at the senior level.

Norway s world youth champion Karsten Warholm ran a massive personal best of 10.55 to move into the lead with 963 points.

The heptathlon javelin was highlighted by Turkmenistan s Irina Velihanova and her 44.72m throw in the third round, the longest throw in the two pools and a national junior record, but the significant results began with the second place.

Following the revision of Jiri Sykora s second-round mark of 7.35m, which was originally listed as 7.98m and corrected during the lunchtime break between the shot put and high jump, Belarusian Yury Yaremich led proceedings with an impressive 7.80m with...

Cedric Dubler regained the lead with two events remaining as the Australian reached a lifetime best of 4.80m in the pole vault, 20cm higher than his previous best.