Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands will return to the home track in Hengelo where she set a European 10,000 metres record of 29min 36.67sec last year and will again contest the 25-lap discipline at tomorrow's World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting.

The poker players of men’s pole vault, where the stakes are already sky high this year, are set to play it again in the northern French city of Liévin tomorrow in the third of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.

Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan will focus on the 5,000 and 10,000 metres in 2021 as she prepares for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The Female World Athlete of the Year 2020 shortlist has been revealed for the World Athletics Awards, with five new world record holders from this season among those vying for the accolade.

Dutch star Sifan Hassan has shattered the European 10,000 meters record, taking more than 24 seconds off Paula Radcliffe's continental best which had stood for 18 years.

World record performances on the track, in my experience, have involved jubilant figures crossing a line, frozen digital figures on the infield clock and a swift confluence of those bearing flowers, cameras and microphones.

Tomorrow's Golden Spike meeting in the Czech city of Ostrava features a fresh world record holder in Sifan Hassan, but the keener focus will be on two athletes teetering on the brink of setting new global marks – Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser.

Sir Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting here tonight.

Three world records are in the sights of Diamond League athletes who have gathered here to compete in an empty King Baudouin Stadium tomorrow evening, with the marks for the men's and women's one-hour race and the women's 1000 metres under threat.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has promised his organisation will "look at" athletes who trained under banned coach Alberto Salazar, including Britain's four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah and The Netherlands' double world champion Sifan Hassan. 

Brigid Kosgei, who broke Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old world marathon record in Chicago on Sunday (October 13), is among 11 nominations for this year's Female World Athlete of the Year award.

David Howman, chairman of the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), has warned there will be increased vigilance on athletes associated with Alberto Salazar, the head coach at the Nike Oregon Project (NOP) who was given a four-year doping ban last week.

Sifan Hassan completed her golden double in defiant fashion here at the International Association of Athletic Federations World Championships, following up her 10,000 metres win with the 1500m title on a pulsating night that also contained the greatest shot put contest ever seen.

The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan has hit out at the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for releasing news of the decision to ban her coach Alberto Salazar for four-years during the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here.

Christian Coleman of the United States won the men’s world 100 metres title here in 9.76sec, the fastest time recorded this year, on a night when The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan completed what could be the first part of a golden double here as she won the women’s 10,000m title at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships.