Commonwealth and African 400m silver medallist Wayde Van Niekerk has been a breakthrough star in 2014 and last weekend he anchored Africa to victory in the 4x400m at the IAAF Continental Cup.

Breaking away from Dawit Seyaum s late-race challenge, Sifan Hassan collected an impressive victory in the 1500m to further cushion Europe s lead midway through the second day s programme.

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He may be one of older throwers on the international circuit, but Gerd Kanter proved today that sometimes he s still the best.

Before embarking on a visit to a remote Moroccan mountain village early last Sunday for an IAAF / Nestl Kids Athletics event, most of the guests including several current and former champion athletes from Morocco and elsewhere didn t know exactly...

Third behind Allyson Felix and Myriam Soumare at the IAAF Diamond League final in Brussels nine days ago, Dafne Schippers returned to winning ways at 200m.

Alonso Edward and Rasheed Dwyer took maximum points for Americas in the men s 200m, both dipping below 20 seconds as they crossed the line virtually together in the closest ever finish at an IAAF World or Continental Cup.

They won the first and last events of the weekend, but in between those victories hosts Africa could not hold off the might of the two strongest teams in the IAAF Continental Cup as Europe lifted the team trophy at the end of two days of competition in...

With a late injury knocking defending champion Valerie Adams out to the sidelines, the role of favourite fell easily into the lap of European champion Christina Schwanitz, and she played it perfectly.

As expected, Renaud Lavillenie was the easy winner in the men s pole vault, earning maximum points for Europe.