Usain Bolt's 100 and 200m world records set at the Beijing Olympics in August are officially ratified by the International Association of Atheltics Federations.

Jo Pavey has to settle for third place in one of the closest finishes of the BUPA Great North Run. Pavey fought a magnificent battle over the final mile with Gete Wami and Magdalene Mukunzi before succumbing to their finishing pace. Wami won by a second in 1:08:51, ahead of Mukunzi.

Lisa Dobriskey and Mo Farah close their seasons will victories in the BUPA Great North Miles meeting on Tyneside.

World marathon record holder Haile Gebrselassie will earn a $1 million bonus if he betters his mark in Dubai on January 16, organisers announce.

Paula Radcliffe confirms she will run in the ING New York City Marathon on November 2.

Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie breaks his own marathon world record with a time of two hours, three minutes and 58 seconds in Berlin.

Liz Yelling withdraws from the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for next month's IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Rio de Janeiro due to injury. The 33-year-old fractured a rib during a fall in the Olympics marathon last month and is yet to fully recover.

Russian triathlon champion Olga Selekhova receives a two-year doping ban after testing positive for the diuretic furosemide, the country's triathlon federation confirm. Selekhova's case is the latest in a serious of major doping violations involving Russian athletes in recent months.

Five leading Russian race walkers, including world record holder Sergei Morozov, have been banned for doping for two years, the Russian athletics federation confirm.

Dutchman Charles van Commenee is confirmed as the new head coach of British athletics through to the 2012 London Olympics.

Briton Lisa Dobriskey wins the Fifth Avenue Mile run in New York in the second-fastest time in the history of the race.

Former 100m world champion Lauryn Williams will compete in the sprint event which runs alongside the BUPA Great North Run Miles in Newcastle on October 4.

Kenya's Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru confirms he does still intend to compete in the BUPA Great North Run in October despite his house being attacked by ten heavily armed robbers on the weekend.

Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova breaks the women's javelin world record with a throw of 72.28 metres at the world athletics final.

Yelena Isinbayeva and Dayron Robles will lead a star cast of 10 Olympic champions at the IAAF Shanghai Golden Grand Prix this month.

Moroccan former Olympic track champion Said Aouita has taken over as the country's athletics technical director, promising to restore national pride after a lacklustre performance at the Beijing Olympics.

Russia's gold-medal winning pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and 110m hurdles world record holder Dayron Robles of Cuba will compete at a meet in Daegu, South Korea later this month.

Former world record holder Asafa Powell continues his good form, winning the 100 metres at the Rieti Grand Prix with a time of 9.82 seconds.

Former U.S. sprinter Marion Jones leaves a federal facility in Texas after serving a six-month sentence for lying to prosecutors about steroid use that helped her win five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The Netherlands Antilles Olympic committee appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the disqualification of sprinter Churandy Martina after he finished second in the Beijing Olympics 200 metres final.

Martina and third-placed American Wallace Spearmon were disqualified for running out of lane behind Jamaican Usain Bolt who won the race in world record time.

Defending champion Shawn Crawford of the United States, who crossed the line in fourth place, was promoted to silver while his team mate Walter Dix won another bronze after finishing third in the 100 metres

"The NAOC requests the CAS to annul the disqualification of Churandy Martina," CAS said in a statement. "USA Track and Field and the United States Olympic Committee have both requested to participate in this arbitration procedure."