Italian 400m record holder Libania Grenot provided the highlight of the 28th edition of the Meeting Città di Padova in Italy with a European-leading 51.08 in the women’s 400m on Sunday (6).Grenot improved her 2014 best from the 51.79 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Oslo last month. This result makes her a clear medal contender over one lap of the track at the forthcoming European Championships in Zurich next month.Ukraine’s Hanna Titimets, fourth at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, won the women’s 400m hurdles in 55.47, holding off world junior champion Janeive Russell, who finished second in 55.51.Ukraine completed the double over the barriers by winning the women’s 100m hurdles with Hanna Platitsyna clocking 13.00 into a headwind of 0.7m/s. &nbsp;Australia’s Jeffrey Riseley edged Kenya’s Sammy Kirongo in the 800m with both men credited with 1:45.81 after a thrilling sprint down the home straight.Russia’s European indoor silver medallist Irina Gumenyuk went beyond 14 metres for the first time this year and won the women’s triple jump with 14.35m. Aliona Dubitskaya, from Belarus, won the women’s shot put with 18.49m on countback over local favourite Chiara Rosa, who finished second in front of her family and friends with her season’s best, A strong headwind of -1.3m/s had a significant impact on the men’s 100m, which was won by Jamaica’s Andrew Fisher in a relatively slow 10.35. The headwind was a bit less strong in the women’s 100m but the winner, Ukraine’s Hrystyna Stuy, still had to settle for the modest time of 11.56 on the clock.USA’s Troy Doris added one centimetre to his best to win the men’s triple jump with 16.85m.The men’s hammer throw was held on Saturday afternoon at the old Colbacchini track and the two-time Olympic finallist Dilshod Nazarov, from Tajikistan, won with 77.95m beating former Olympic and European silver medallist and 27-time Italian champion Nicola Vizzoni, who was second with 73.65m. Diego Sampaolo for the IAAF

Italian 400m record holder Libania Grenot provided the highlight of the 28th edition of the Meeting Città di Padova in Italy with a European-leading 51.08 in the women’s 400m on Sunday (6).

Grenot runs European-leading 400m in Padua

The final day of Russian Championships in Moscow saw an outstanding women’s 1500m won by London 2012 Olympic Games 3000m Steeplechase winner Yulia Zaripova, who won her first national title at the distance in an impressive 4:02.56 on Thursday (25). "As I was already selected for the Steeplechase as the reigning World champion, running that event was not necessary, and therefore I decided to compete in the 1500m like year. Unlike last year (when she did not start the 1500m final) I decided to run in the final as well as it’s a championship of Russia.“In the final I wanted to work on my speed, and try out some new tactics. I generally like to run at the front straight from the gun but at the beginning of the race I felt too heavy to do this. I only arrived yesterday (in Moscow) from my training camp in Kislovodsk," said Zarpova.“I’m very happy with my time but I’m not looking for a place in the team at this distance. This winter, after the Olympics, I rested longer, and so my first Steeplechase was just weeks ago at the World University Games (which she won).“The barriers require careful technical work, and that takes time. The performances of my rivals, of course, I also watch. I watch all these videos two-or-three times, scrolling through them slowly,” she added.Behind Zaripova, Svetlana Podsyonova was second with 4:04.01, Yelena Korobkina third in 4:05.43 and, Anna Shchagina fourth with 4:05.91.London 2012 Olympic Games High Jump winner Ivan Ukhov returned to form and take his specialist event as the only man to 2.30m on Thursday (25).Ukhov has been struggling so far this summer, although he has always emphasised that his sights were on the IAAF World Championships in the Russian capital next month, and only finished eighth at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, United States, last month and then fifth at the World University games on home soil in Kazan two weeks ago.On Thursday, Ukhov was clear with his first attempts at every height from his opener at 2.15m up to and including 2.30m. With the competition won, he brought the bar down three times at 2.33m.Aleksandr Shustov, the 2010 European champion, was second with 2.27m. Abakumova gets easy winThe 2011 World champion Mariya Abakumova won the Javelin by over eight metres with her third round effort of 65.99m and had three other throws over 63 metres. World junior record holder and 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships gold medallist Sergey Morgunov won the Long Jump with 8.06m in the absence of 2012 Diamond Race winner Aleksandr Menkov, who has a wild card and will be competition in the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London this weekend.In the women’s Triple Jump, Irina Gumenyuk leapt to 14.41m in the fourth round and then improved to 14.50m one round later. Anna Pyatykh, the 2005 and 2009 IAAF World Championships bronze medallist, had her best competition since 2010 and finished second with 14.40m. World Student Games champion Yekaterina Koneva has already been pre-selected so Viktoriya Valyukevich, who finished third with 14.36m, may miss out on the World Championships. Two-time World champion Tatyana Lebedeva was sixth with 13.97. The ever-consistent Yuriy Borzakovskiy picked up his 11th national title and secured a trip to his sixth World Championships when he won the 800m in 1:46.98, with Stepan Poistogov second in 1:47.30. Nikolay Sedyuk won the men’s Discus with 61.39m while 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Yevgeniya Kolodko was victorious in the women’s Shot Put with a season’s best of 19.86m, finishing ahead of Irina Tarasova who was second with 18.52m.Phil Minshull for the IAAF

Zaripova shows off her speed with 1500m win at Russian Championships

The final day of Russian Championships in Moscow saw an outstanding women’s 1500m won by London 2012 Olympic Games 3000m Steeplechase winner Yulia Zaripova, who won her first national title at the distance in an impressive 4:02.56 on Thursday (25). 