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In 2012, Ashton Eaton broke the world record at the US Olympic Trials with a score of 9039 points and went to the London 2012 Olympics Games as the outstanding favourite for the gold medal. This year, the 25-year-old onl...

This has proved to be a halcyon year for men's high jumping with Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko going over 2.41m and Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim clearing 2.40m; the first year since 1991 that two men have gone over 2.40m or ...

Renaud Lavillenie heads to Moscow as one of the biggest gold-medal favourites of any event.

After three years in which the 18-meter mark has come under threat, 2013 has been a relatively quieter year in the men's Triple Jump.

Few events in Moscow will have such a clear favourite as the women's Discus, with many expecting Sandra Perkovic to add the world title to the Olympic crown she took in London last year.

Expectations will be high of a home victory as the host nation Russia boast three of the top five throwers in the world this year.

The preview for the Heptathlon could have been a very different one just a week or so ago but the fact that the two biggest names, Great Britain's London 2012 Olympic Games champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and Russia's 2011 W...

The battle for the gold medal looks to be between Russia's reigning Olympic champion and defending World champion Anna Chicherova and the USA's London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Brigetta Barrett and there is lit...

After being so long in the shadow of other throwers at major championships, not least Czech Republic's London 2012 Olympic Games champion and World record holder Barbora Spotakova who will be missing in Moscow because of...

Russian athletics stars don't come much bigger than pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva.

Valerie Adams has won everything that the sport has to offer but still wants more and is the overwhelming favourite for this event.

In Daegu two years ago, Caterine Ibarguen took bronze in the Triple Jump to become the first Colombian woman to win a medal at the IAAF World Championships.

With just five days to go before the start of the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013, which takes place in the Russian capital from 10 to 18 August, we start our traditional 'Event-by-Event' previews with the Throws an...

Robert Harting may have succumbed to his first defeats since 2010 recently but the 2009 and 2011 World champion will still be the man to beat as he goes in search of his third consecutive title.

In 1980, the Soviet Union's Sergey Litvinov took the silver medal in the Hammer Throw at the Olympic Games in Moscow behind the great Yuriy Sedykh.

The medal prospects in the men's Javelin seems to be much more open than in recent years, ahead of this year's major championship.

Aleksandr Menkov is one of Russia's big hopes for a home success in Moscow. The European indoor champion has been a model of consistency this season, but he is far from the only gold-medal contender.

Highlights of the final three days of the Deaflympics, including a bronze medal for British cyclist Tom Smith in the points race and bronze in the women's football

As an official partner of the IAAF, expect the '3-Stripes' of adidas to be prominent, not only inside the Luzhniki Stadium, but also across the city of Moscow during the duration of the World Championships.

This has proved to be a halcyon year for men's high jumping with Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko going over 2.41m and Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim clearing 2.40m; the first year since 1991 that two men have gone over 2.40m or ...

Aleksandr Menkov is one of Russia's big hopes for a home success in Moscow. The European indoor champion has been a model of consistency this season, but he is far from the only gold-medal contender.

Renaud Lavillenie heads to Moscow as one of the biggest gold-medal favourites of any event.