Barely 12 months after claiming the European indoor title, France s Eloyse Lesueur captured her first global medal in taking the women s long jump title in fine style by flying to 6.85m and a slightly surprising victory.

Calvin Smith was still waiting for the family welcome into the world record breakers club as he left the track in the Ergo Arena, having brought a momentous conclusion to the three days of the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot.

So now we know why Caleb Ndiku kept his woolly hat on en route to victory in his firs-round heat. The Kenyan lined up for the final sporting flaming dyed red hair.

Two-time world indoor shot put champion Ryan Whiting offers an insight into his life by answering our work, rest and play questions.

The USA has medal pedigree in the women s 800m at the World Indoor Championships three bronzes, to be precise, courtesy of Joetta Clark in 1997, Alysia Johnson in 2010 and Erica Moore in 2012.

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.