After a handful of close challenges in recent years, Frank Emmelmann’s German 100m record of 10.06 finally fell at the National Championships, held in Ulm on 25-27 July, as Julian Reus bettered it by one hundredth of a second.

Sally Pearson wasted no time in blasting out a statement of intent as she set about the task of emulating Lolo Jones as a back-to-back two-time winner of the women’s 60m hurdles title at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Shot putters David Storl and Christina Schwanitz both cemented their roles as title contenders for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot at the German Indoor Championships in Leipzig this weekend (22-23).

Her big sister Tirunesh has twice been a world record breaker indoors and it was the turn Genzebe Dibaba to make her own mark on the under cover record books when she smashed the women's world indoor 1500m record by more than three seconds with a run of 3:55.17 at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Saturday (1).