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New York, USA – US indoor records by Bernard Lagat in the Two Miles, as well as Alysia Montano and Erik Sowinski in the men’s and women’s 600m respectively, highlighted the 106th Millrose Games at The Armory on Saturday evening (16).

Many IAAF Member Federations in Europe had the first day of their 2013 national indoor championships on Saturday (16), with the highlights including Italian high jumper Alessia Trost going over 1.95m and Greek long jumper Yeóryios Tsákonas reaching 8.15m.

Mo Farah’s ear-busting 3000m victory may have been the meeting’s grand finale but it was four women who stole the show at the British Athletics Grand Prix in Birmingham, an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting, this afternoon (Saturday).

The memorial service for Neville ‘Teddy’ McCook, who passed away earlier this week, has been scheduled for Sunday February 24.

The final arithmetic for the Kenyan 2013 Bydgoszcz IAAF World Cross Championships team is in the hands of coaches after 28 athletes were selected in the initial squad following the conclusion of the strongly contested KCB/AK National Cross Country Championships, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting, in Nairobi on Saturday (16).

Britain’s double Olympic champion Mo Farah will get his first taste of an elite marathon on April 21 when he runs the first half of the 2013 Virgin London Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, alongside some of the greatest Marathon runners of all time.

A year ago, Kelly Hetherington ran a personal best to hand Tamsyn Manou a rare domestic defeat over 800m at the 2012 Adelaide Track Classic.

Former 100m world record-holder Asafa Powell has been confirmed to run in the men’s 100m at the 2013 Qantas Melbourne World Challenge on Saturday April 6, the opening leg of the IAAF World Challenge series.

IAAF Honorary Life Member Arthur Eustace, who is a Patron and Life Member of Athletics New Zealand was honoured at the Halberg Awards at Auckland's Vector Arena on 14 February.

Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai was presented with his second consecutive male AIMS/ASICS World Athlete of the Year award in Ras al-Khaimah on Thursday (14).

Kenyans Lucy Kabuu and Geoffrey Kipsang turned the world Half-marathon rankings on their head at the RAK Half marathon, which produced some of the greatest races ever in terms of depth.

Kseniya Ustalova and Sergey Shubenkov shot straight to the top of the 2013 season lists with their winning performances at the Russian Indoor Championships, held at the Vladimir Kutz Arena in Moscow.

The race to the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships enters its final lap this Saturday (16) when Kenya holds the KCB Nairobi Cross, an IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting, which doubles as the selection event for the March 24 global showpiece.

Uganda’s Docus Inzikuru, winner of the inaugural women’s World 3000m Steeplechase title in 2005, will make her debut over 26.2 miles on April 14 at the Brighton Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race.

It’s just over six months since Mo Farah completed his historic distance-double at the Olympic Games in London, six months in which the British star has been appropriately fêted, lauded, awarded and celebrated in his home country.

World silver medallist Vincent Kipruto is the fastest man in the field that has been announced for the 68th Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on March 3.

On February 24 New Orleans will welcome Olympic champions Meseret Defar and Mo Farah when they compete at the Rock ‘n’ Roll New Orleans Half Marathon.

Olympic Pole Vault champion Renaud Lavillenie is ready to take the Prefontaine Classic to new heights when he competes at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Eugene on June 1.

Belarusian Alina Talay ran the third-fastest time of 2013 in winning the 60m Hurdles in 7.94, while sprinters Murielle Ahouré and Mike Rodgers were stars of the show in Jesse Owens’ stadium for the International Meeting Val de Reuil last night (12) in winning the 60m in 7.06 and 6.56 respectively.

American shot putter Ryan Whiting continued to dominate his event this winter when provided the best performance of the evening at the ninth edition of the Pedro’s Cup indoor meeting in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Tuesday (12).