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If the qualifying round is anything to go by, then tomorrow's women's long jump final should be a thrilling contest between Serbia's Ivana Spanovic and Russia's Darya Klishina.

Having come to the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot with the best distance of the winter under his belt, Ryan Whiting felt the pressure to live up to the mantle of being the favourite for the men's shot put gold ...

Tiffany Porter wins Britain's first medal at the World Indoor Championships with bronze in the 60m hurdles.

There were some wobbles at the 2.16m opening height for some of the pedigree jumpers in the field. Donald Thomas, of The Bahamas, has a World Championship gold medal, circa 2007, and a 2.33m season's best to his name but...

Ashton Eaton leads the heptathlon with 5699 after six events, the highest score ever at this stage.

Ashton Eaton started the second day of heptathlon explosively.

Pascal Martinot-Lagarde reinforced the impression that the Frenchman is the favourite for the men's 60m hurdles gold medal with a flawed but still fast first heat win in 7.56, a time equalled by Great Britain's Andrew Po...

As expected, the US quartet qualified as the fastest team for Sunday's final to assert their authority on the event which their nation has won eight times during the 12 editions of this event.

There was an air of familiarity for Ryan Whiting in the men's shot put final on Friday (7) as arch-rival David Storl snatched the lead from him in the first and second round.

After crossing the finish line at the end of the 800m, the final event of the women's pentathlon at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, Nadine Broersen sprawled flat on her back on the track in the Ergo Arena on Friday ...

Ivory Coast's Murielle Ahoure, who first came to international attention when she won the silver medal two years ago in Istanbul, looked remarkably relaxed just before stepping into her block ahead of the sixth and final...

The US quartet improved the world lead by over a second in speeding to 3:29.06 to establish themselves as the favourite for the gold medal in Sunday's final.

Only 11 men were in the qualifying competition for Sunday's final with 2004 Olympic silver medallist Marian Oprea the sole athlete to surpass 17 metres; 16.90m being the automatic qualifying distance.

Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu and younger sister Victoria help the women's 4x400m relay team reach Sunday's final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

Standing in the mixed zone in the Ergo Arena, Gabriele Grunewald reflected with satisfaction on having made it through the first round of the women's 3000m on the opening morning of the IAAF World Indoor Championships on...

Nadine Broersen has a firm grip on the pentathlon gold medal after opening up a big 101-point lead before the final event, 800m.

In an exciting finale to the women's pentathlon, six out of the eight athletes set a personal best in the 800m with the remaining two ending up with a season's best.

Sally Pearson wasted no time in blasting out a statement of intent as she set about the task of emulating Lolo Jones as a back-to-back two-time winner of the women's 60m hurdles title at the IAAF World Indoor Championshi...

The fastest woman of 2014, the USA's Francena McCorory, flew to the fastest time of the semi-finals wiith a swift 51.35 clocking.

Sweden's Abeba Aregawi showed just why she is one of the most prohibitive favourites for a gold medal in Sopot when she ran away from the rest of the runners halfway through her 1500m heat and clocked the fastest time of...

Ryan Whiting extended the US domination of the men's shot put at the IAAF World Indoor Championships by clinching victory for the USA for the sixth successive edition of the championships, successfully defending the titl...

The qualifying distance was set at 8.05m and the first man to nail it was not one of the fancied pre-championship medal contenders but a man who instantly catapulted himself into local athletics folklore: Adrian Strzalko...