4 September 2012 – Ponte di Legno, Italy - A record 40 nations competed in 28th World Mountain Running Championships in Ponte di Legno, Italy on Sunday (2) with 11 countries earning medals in the four events.

4 September 2012 - After winning an Olympic silver medal, Mitchell Watt decides to head home early, buy a house, and build the foundations for 2013.

3 September 2012 - Zagreb, Croatia - Five individual London Olympic champions will lead the fields at Tuesday's 62nd edition of the Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, the penultimate stop on the IAAF World Challenge series.

3 September 2012 – Gothenburg, Sweden - The prestigious athletics match between eternal Nordic rivals Sweden and Finland, The ‘Finnkampen’, is unique in the modern world of athletics. It was first held in 1925 and the match this year completed the 6th straight decade of yearly encounters!

3 September 2012 - Newcastle, UK - Tiki Gelana, the Olympic Marathon gold medallist, will be aiming to join several other world class Ethiopian runners who have triumphed in past Bupa Great North Runs at this year's race on 16 September.

3 September 2012 – Padua, Italy - Nine London Olympic medallists highlighted the 26th edition of the International Meeting in Padua on Sunday (2) held in a thrilling atmosphere in front of many excited children who packed the stands of the Euganeo Stadium.

2 September 2012 - Berlin, Germany - Six Olympic champions in individual events were competing at the ISTAF in the Berlin Olympic Stadium on Sunday and three of them were victorious at this IAAF World Challenge Meeting.

2 September 2012 - Ezekiel Chebii shattered the course record at the Lille Half Marathon on Saturday (1).

30 August 2012 - Toronto, Canada - Marathoners are wise to race their chosen distance two, maybe three times in a year which means it’s critical to get the buildup right.

1 September 2012 - Prague, Czech Republic - As we can see, he kept his word. Patrick Makau, the World record holder in the Marathon, is coming back to the Czech Republic to take to the start line for the Metro 10K, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, in Prague on Saturday, 8 September.

31 August 2012 – Monte-Carlo – The IAAF World Challenge meeting in Dakar, Senegal, which was scheduled to take place on Wednesday 12 September has been cancelled due to serious flooding in the West African country.

1 September 2012 - Berlin, Germany - More than 50,000 spectators are expected in Berlin's historic Olympic Stadium for Sunday's 71st edition of the ISTAF, an IAAF World Challenge Meeting.

31 August 2012 - Vallecamonic, Italy – On Sunday 2 September the 28th edition of the World Mountain Running Championships will be staged in the Italian Alps.

31 August 2012 – In his latest IAAF Diary, World 400m Hurdles champion Dai Greene discusses his Olympic disappointment and shares his utmost respect for champion Felix Sanchez.

30 August 2012 - Zürich, Switzerland – Usain Bolt’s 19.66 meeting record in the 200m and Mohammed Aman’s dramatic upset victory over David Rudisha were just a pair of the highlights at the Weltklasse Zurich on Thursday, the first of two Samsung Diamond League finals for 2012.

30 August 2012 - New York, USA - Meb Keflezighi, who finished fourth in the 2012 Olympic Marathon; his teammate in London and four-time U.S. Olympian Abdi Abdirahman; and two other top American marathoners, Jason Hartmann and Brett Gotcher, will run the 2012 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, 4 November .

29 August 2012 – Zürich, Switzerland – Competing before an energized capacity crowd at Zurich’s main trains station, Valerie Adams and Reese Hoffa won their respective Shot Put competitions tonight while each capturing the 2012 Samsung Diamond Race in the event.

29 August 2012 – Zürich, Switzerland – Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Carmelita Jeter, Otto Bjorn and Renaud Livillenie met with the press this afternoon on the eve of the Weltklasse Zürich, the first of two Samsung Diamond League series finals.

29 August 2012 – Zürich, Switzerland – Fifteen recently crowned Olympic champions, 14 reigning World champions and 17 current world leaders will converge upon Zürich’s Letzigrund Stadium on Thursday (30) for another sold-out edition of the Weltklasse Zürich, the first of two high-powered 2012 Samsung Diamond League series finals.

29 August 2012 – Zürich, Switzerland – As he prepares for his final race of the season, David Rudisha can be forgiven for not making any promises that he’ll be making an assault on his own World record in the 800m at the Weltklasse meeting here tomorrow night.