7 February 2012 – Vivian Cheruiyot was named the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year Award winner for 2011 at a gala event in London on Monday (6) evening.

7 February 2012 - Busy on the track and off, two-time Olympic and reigning World 200m champion Veronica Campbell Brown brings us up to date on her busy month that has just passed - and a packed calendar it was!

7 February 2012 - And so who is going to win a share of $200,000 in the 2012 IAAF Race Walking Challenge – the ninth edition of the popular series, which gets underway in less than one month's time?

6 February 2012 - Monaco - The IAAF is deeply saddened to receive the news that István Rózsavölgyi, a middle distance legend and former World record holder, died on 27 January. He was 82.

6 February 2012 - Usain Bolt, Vivian Cheruiyot and Carmelita Jeter are among the nominees at this evening's 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in London.

6 February 2012 - Birmingham, UK - World Indoor Pentathlon champion Jessica Ennis has added her name to the star cast of athletes bound for the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham later this month as she steps up preparations to secure a historic major championships double in 2012.

6 February 2012 - On a packed Spanish athletics weekend Spain’s Carlos Castillejo managed a shock win from Kenya’s reigning World Marathon record holder (2:03:38) Patrick Makau at the ‘Mitja Maraton de Granollers’, a Half Marathon held on Saturday (4), 1:02:37 and 1:02:40 their respective times. Over 19,000 runners took part in the event.

6 February 2012 – Moscow, Russia - More than 200 athletes from 26 countries on four continents gathered for the 21st edition of the ‘Russian Winter’ in the chill of Moscow on Sunday (5) where seven world leading performances were produced on the 13-event programme.

5 February 2012 - Riding the momentum that propelled her to the World title last summer in Daegu, Anna Chicherova cleared a Russian indoor record of 2.06m at the Hochsprung mit Musik competition in Arnstadt, Germany, on Saturday.

5 February 2012 – Kenyan Harun Njoroge won the 61st Beppu-Oita Marathon on Sunday in 2:09:38, the first sub-2:10 performance of his career.

5 February 2012 - Breaking away from the field just four kilometres into the race, pre-race favourite Matthew Kisorio collected a convincing win at the 66th annual Kagawa-Marugame Half Marathon on Sunday (5).

5 February 2012 - Hong Kong - Losing a Marathon by one second last year taught Dejere Abera of Ethiopia a lesson that he put to good use this morning (5), when he won the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon by less than a second.

5 February 2012 - Boston, USA - Jennifer Suhr cleared 4.88m on her first attempt to set a national record and regain her No. 2 spot on the all-time women's pole vault list to highlight the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood on Saturday.

4 February 2012 – Hobart, Australia - To say that Collis Birmingham likes running in Hobart might be a bit of an understatement. Five times in the past six years he has won the 5000 metres at the Briggs Athletics Classic (the sixth time, he did not run it).

3 February 2012 - Abdellah Falil and Samson Ramadhani will be among the favourites at the 61st Beppu-Oita Marathon on Sunday.

3 February 2012 - Hong Kong - With so many good African, particularly Kenyan marathoners around nowadays, it takes a bit of initiative to get into foreign races if you’re not one of the sub-2:10 brigade. So when Julius Maisei heard that the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon – an IAAF Bronze Label Event - was paying good prize money without an overly talented field, he chanced a thousand dollars on an air fare and a hotel room last year.

3 February 2012 - Moscow, Russia - It’s very cold in Moscow: the temperature in some regions of this huge city is minus 20 degrees C. But no doubt on Sunday (5) the Vladimir Kutz Arena will be crammed with fans of athletics. since the 'Russian Winter', the second IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting of 2012, is always adored by the Moscow public.

3 February 2012 - Long Jumper Darya Klishina, a regular correspondent of the IAAF via the IAAF Online Diaries, has taken time off her busy schedule to answer her fans’ questions received via the IAAF World Athletics Club Facebook page. Darya received almost 200 questions – here are the ones she selected…

3 February 2012 - Birmingham, UK - World leader Holly Bleasdale will step up her Olympic Pole Vault preparations at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham, the penultimate IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting, on Saturday 18 February.

3 February 2012 – Linz, Austria - Tipped all week long as the marquee event, a riveting hurdle race between Americans Yvette Lewis and Lolo Jones unfolded as the highlight of the Gugl Meeting on Thursday (2) evening in Linz.