In 2019 the rising Icelandic star finished last at the World Championships. After a breakthrough throw last year, he enters 2021 as one of the best discus throwers in the world.

Catching up with world 400m champion Steven Gardiner

Abe Gashahun and Tsigie Gebreselama were the winners of the 2021 Great Ethiopian Run

The 19-year-old displayed solid early season form, equalling her indoor career best.

There are numerous benefits from workouts and runs on the much softer surface.

The Melbourne Cup in horse racing is known as the race that stops the nation but, in truth, there’s an event in athletics that holds a country in a far-more-captivated grasp: the Hakone Ekiden.

The events include the new World Athletics Road Running Championships.

Lockdowns and travel restrictions have kept them apart for 15 months.

If you are lacking in motivation, why not treat running as a tool to open a box of other adventures?

While the staggering marathon feats of Eliud Kipchoge and to a lesser extent Kenenisa Bekele have quite righty earned the bulk of media attention in recent years, it would be a little churlish not to also acknowledge the feats of Ethiopian marathon ace Birhanu Legese.

Normally at this time of year we’d be looking back at race highlights from the mountain running circuit, remembering the World and European Championships and World Cup winners. However, there was little normal about 2020.

When Nicholas Kimeli looks back on 2020, he is under no illusion how fortunate he has been to have such a successful season during the most unexpected of years.