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Just as he thought he would be ready for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot next month, the extraordinary few days in the life of Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie has taken another turn.

Bernard Lagat provided the highlight of the 107th NYRR Millrose Games, the oldest invitational athletics meeting in the USA, when he set a US 2000m indoor record of 4:54.74 at the Armory in New York on Saturday (15).

Some shrewd investing by Ethiopian runners Feyera Gemeda and Rehima Kedir paid off handsomely when they won at the 2014 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race on Sunday (16).

Following in the footsteps of Renaud Lavillenie and Genzebe Dibaba indoors on Saturday, the world records continued to fall this weekend as Kenya s Florence Kiplagat stopped the clock in 1:05:12 at the eDreams Mitja Marat de Barcelona on Sunday (16)

High jumpers hit the heights and provided the headlines at the 2014 Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou, China, this weekend (15/16), with Qatar s 2013 IAAF World Championships silver medallist Mutaz Essa Barshim clearing a season s best of 2.36m.

Almensch Belete took the spoils on home soil at the sixth leg of the Lotto CrossCup in Rotselaar, Belgium, on Sunday (16).

Ecuador s Rolando Saquipay provided the headlines at the 2014 South American Race Walking Championships in the Bolivian city of Cochabama this weekend (15/16) by winning the men s 20km event and relegating Guatemala s London 2012 Olympic Games silver m...

Janay DeLoach Soukup won the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships long jump silver medal and then the London 2012 Olympic Games bronze medal in this event.