Elaine Thompson-Herah, who began her season in Birmingham on Saturday (February 19), will compete over 60 metres in the Polish city of Toruń tomorrow against the home sprinter who tops this year’s world rankings, Ewa Swoboda.

Olympic pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis cleared a season's best of 6.05 metres before coming agonisingly close to a world record of 6.19m in Birmingham, following Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson's smashing of the British indoor 800 metres record.

Elaine Thompson-Herah, who retained her Olympic 100 and 200 metres titles in Tokyo last summer, will open her season in the Arena Birmingham tomorrow at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix, which features two other Tokyo 2020 champions in Mondo Duplantis and Mariya Lasitskene.

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.

Treble Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has made the final five for this year's World Athletics' Female World Athlete of the Year award, as well as last year's winner Yulimar Rojas.

A decision by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) to award Canada’s Maggie MacNeil best female athlete of Tokyo 2020 has been criticised by the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC).

Eight-time Olympic medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is aiming to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics, despite being 37 when the Games roll around.

A 10-person shortlist for World Athletics' Female World Athlete of the Year honour has been released, with Jamaica's triple Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah and the European Female Athlete of the Year Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands headlining the nominees.

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.

Olympic champions Armand Duplantis, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Hansle Parchment, all beaten in Lausanne on Thursday (August 26) night, re-asserted themselves in style here today with emphatic victories at the Paris Diamond League meeting.

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, whose winning time of 10.54sec in Eugene last Saturday (August 21) was the second-fastest time ever, will seek to maintain her breath-taking form here tomorrow as the Diamond League moves on to the French capital.

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.

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a Jamaican and Diamond League record of 10.54sec in Eugene to defeat a field including the two compatriots who joined her on the Tokyo 2020 podium and home sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson.

American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is set to return to competition for the first time at the Eugene Diamond League, after her one-month cannabis ban, in a stacked women's 100 metres field that features the top four athletes from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.