Organisers of the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon have revealed the elite fields for the World Athletics Gold Label road races on 19 January.

El Hassan El Abbassi of Bahrain and Salome Nyirarukundo of Rwanda won their respective divisions at the third edition of the Berkane International Half Marathon on Sunday (2), staged in the hometown of double Olympic and four-time world champion Hicham El Guerrouj.

China’s pole vault star Li Ling upgraded her own Asian record by one centimetre as she grabbed the sole gold medal for the hosts on the third competition day at the Asian Championships in Wuhan on Saturday (6).

They were already leading the athletics medal table at the Asian Games in the Korean city of Inchon, but China went from strength to strength on Thursday (2), adding four more gold medals to their tally.

Morocco was celebrating a double victory at the Ottawa 10km race with El Hassan El Abassi and Malika Asahssah triumphing in this IAAF Silver Label Road Race in cold and windy conditions on Saturday night (25).