Karsten Warholm wrote a piece of ISTAF history by breaking the 40-year-old meeting record set by 400m hurdles legend Edwin Moses in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday (13).

Given the current status of the New York City Marathon, it is a little hard to believe that the genesis of a race, which many regard as the world’s most iconic marathon, had such humble beginnings.

Ryan Crouser and local superstar Sandra Perkovic will serve as the headline acts for the 70th edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial in the Croatian capital Zagreb, the penultimate World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2020, on Monday and Tuesday (15).

Tomas Veszelka's upset victory in the triple jump over four-time world champion Christian Taylor was the key highlight at the PTS Meeting, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, in Samorin, Slovakia, on Friday (11).

The provisional entry lists for the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome on 17 September are now available.

The French athletics federation – Fédération française d'athlétisme (FFA) – celebrates its 100th birthday this year but the achievements of French athletes span many decades more as the country was one of the first to embrace our sport in a fashion that we might currently recognise it.

Athletics competitions are slowly returning as we all adjust to the ‘new normal’. And if you thought the world’s top athletes might need a few warm-up competitions to get into their stride…no way!

Start your weekend here, with a round-up of some of the best athletics, running and fitness-related stories from the past seven days.

Ryan Crouser is on an unprecedented shot putting roll.

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic hundreds of elite athletes along with tens of millions of recreational runners were pounding the pavement in road races around the world each year. From the world’s most prestigious events like the New York City Marathon or the World Athletics Championships and Olympic Games to the modest small town 5k - they depend on an obscure mechanical device to ensure the accuracy of the course: the Jones Counter.

The 2020 edition of the ‘Progression of World Athletics Records’, published by World Athletics Heritage, is now on sale. This invaluable reference work, which was first published by World Athletics (IAAF) in 1987, is again edited by ATFS member Richard Hymans.

Pole vault six-metre club members Armand Duplantis, Sam Kendricks, Piotr Lisek and Renaud Lavillenie will return to battle at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha on 25 September.