Norway’s 400 metres hurdles Olympic champion and world record holder Karsten Warholm will start his season here tomorrow (June 5) as Morocco hosts its first Diamond League meeting since the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

World Athletics has amended its rules to cap the thickness of track shoe soles at 20 millimetres.

Olympic champions Karsten Warholm of Norway and Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica have been named World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards, held virtually again this year.

The undefeated American shot putter Ryan Crouser and double Olympic medallist Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda are among the five finalists for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award, with Sweden's Daniel Ståhl among those who missed out.

A 10-athlete shortlist for World Athletics' Male World Athlete of the Year award has been announced - headlined by Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser, who both set new world records in 2021.

Sifan Hassan from The Netherlands and Norway’s Karsten Warholm have been crowned the 2021 European Athletes of the Year at the Golden Tracks awards ceremony which was held in Lausanne in Switzerland.

Anzhelika Sidorova, who was in tears after having to settle for Olympic silver in Tokyo, experienced a reversal of fortune at the Diamond League Final in Zurich as she became only the third women’s pole vaulter to better 5.00 metres outdoors, winning with a Diamond League record of 5.01m.

A dizzying array of Olympic champions will be on show at the Stade de la Pontaise in Lausanne tomorrow night for the first of four European meetings that will bring this season's Diamond League to its conclusion, watched by an expected capacity crowd of 12,200.

Norway’s Karsten Warholm won one of the great Olympic finals here today to claim men’s 400 metres hurdles gold, taking almost a second off his own world record as he finished ahead of his United States rival Rai Benjamin in 45.94sec.

Achieving a world record at the Olympic Games is the ultimate track and field achievement, but as the athletics programme gets underway tomorrow morning at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, a little short of five years since the last one in Rio de Janeiro, it is prospective personal rivalries that command attention.

Karsten Warholm, knocked down from second to third on the all-time men’s 400 metres hurdles list by Rae Benjamin’s clocking of 46.83sec on Sunday, responded tonight at his home Diamond League meeting in Oslo by moving up to number one - with a spectacular world record of 46.70sec.

A Diamond League season debut for Norway's Karsten Warholm is set to be one of the standout features of the Bislett Games in Oslo.

Sweden's Armand Duplantis - who broke Sergey Bubka's 26-year outdoor pole vault world record - has been named as one of the five finalists for the Male World Athlete of the Year 2020 award.

Armand Duplantis, who began this troubled season with two pole vault world records, will end it with the additional distinction of producing a world-best clearance outdoors as he achieved 6.15 metres at tonight’s penultimate Diamond League meeting in Rome.