After her mediocre start in her semi-final, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce must have taken a long hard look at how she could turn things around. Whatever conclusion she came up with was spot on as she made another contribution to Jamaica s gold reserves with ...

Four laps into the women s 3000m final, the stadium announcer described the pace as relatively sedate,” which was putting it very mildly.

The USA quartet of Kyle Clemons, David Verburg, Kind Butler III and Calvin Smith set a world indoor record of 3:02.13 in the men's 4x400m relay at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Sopot 2014 on Sunday (9).

The USA asserted their dominance from the outset, storming to a world-leading 3:24.83 victory in an event that, quite surprisingly, the USA have won only once in the history of these championships.

Ashton Eaton came close in the heptathlon and Ivan Ukhov wasn t quite at his best in the high jump, but the enthusiastic Sopot crowd were finally rewarded with a world indoor record* in the final event of the championships, the men s 4x400m.

Russia s Lyukman Adams improved on his bronze medal in Istanbul two years ago to snatch the gold in Sopot with a world-leading 17.37m in the sixth and final round.

Russia s Mariya Konovalova was an authoritative winner of the 2014 Nagoya Women s Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, in 2:23:43 on Sunday (9).

Omo Osaghae surprised the European favourites in the 60m hurdles final and equalled the world lead with a 7.45 winning result, the second personal best during the competition after 7.49 came in the semi-finals.

It was a tale of the unexpected, the kind Roald Dahl outlined in his celebrate volume of that name.

The US quartet smashed the 15-year-old men s 4x400m relay world indoor record*, scorching to victory in 3:02.13.