Belgium’s 2008 Olympic Games High Jump champion Tia Hellebaut announced her retirement from the sport on Wednesday (6).

Italian high jumper Alessia Trost won a highly awaited High Jump competition against Belgium’s 2008 Olympic Games champion Tia Hellebaut while Czech Republic’s Pavel Maslak and Ireland’s Brian Gregan were just two of the overseas stars who shone at the Flanders Indoor meeting, an IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting, in Gent on Sunday (10).

There aren’t many track and field duels more symbolic than the one between Tia Hellebaut and Alessia Trost that will unfold on Sunday (10) in Gent at the Flanders Indoor, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting.

Myriam Soumare produced the fastest indoor performance by a European sprinter for six years to win the 200m at the women-only ‘Meeting Feminin du Val d’Oise’ in Eaubonne tonight (7).

The 37th edition of the special High Jump with music meeting in the German city of Arnstadt saw 2011 IAAF World Championships silver medallist Aleksey Dmitrik go over a world-leading height of 2.36m on Saturday (2).

Tia Hellebaut produced a strong pentathlon performance on Sunday (11) at the Belgian Indoor Championships in Gent.