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The top four finishers in the men’s pole vault at the recent World Championships will be in action at the PSD Bank Meeting on 4 February, the second German stop on the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour.

World long jump champion Malaika Mihambo will be one of the top names at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe on 31 January, but the German star won’t be contesting her specialist event at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting.

At last week’s inaugural ‘Everything In Sport: Women Edition’ event in London, World Athletics’ Gender Leadership Taskforce Chair Stephanie Hightower outlined the measures taken by World Athletics to increase representation across all areas of the sport.

Sprints and jumps have provided the highlights of the first three days of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Clark, the Philippines.

It was a day for defending champions at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon on Sunday (8), with five of the six individual titles retained by last year’s gold medallists.

Breaking away from Fatuma Sado with 10km to go at the Saitama Marathon, Peres Jepchirchir, running her first marathon outside of Kenya, won the World Athletics Silver Label road race in 2:23:50.

Ese Brume won Nigeria’s only medal at the World Athletics Championship Doha 2019 after jumping 6.91m in the second round to secure the bronze.

World Athletics is seeking a Head of Global Development, a position based at its headquarters in Monaco.

This weekend’s World Athletics Label road race action centres on the Guangzhou Marathon in China and the women’s race at Saitama.

World Athletics is seeking an eLearning content manager to be based at its Monaco headquarters.

Sydney McLaughlin and Emma Coburn will return to the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, the opening leg of the 2020 World Athletics Indoor Tour, in Boston on 25 January.

African triple jump champion and continental record holder Hugues Fabrice Zango put Burkina Faso on the global athletics map this year when he became the first athlete from the West African nation win a medal at the World Athletics Championships.