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Speaking at the traditional pre-event press conference ahead of the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015, IAAF President Lamine Diack paid tribute to the organisers of the event and praised the impact it will have o...

Starting serious sprinting only eight months ago, Jack Hale has shown all the signs of being in a man in a hurry.

She may be considerably faster than all of her rivals here in Cali, but US sprinter Candace Hill is taking nothing for granted ahead of this week's IAAF World Youth Championships.

Jessica Ennis-Hill will return to the scene of her Olympic triumph as one of the star attractions as the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, reopens the Olympic Stadium on Friday 24 July.

With barely two days to go before the start of the IAAF World Youth Championships, Cali 2015, which takes place in the Colombian city from 15-19 July, brief previews for each event have been published.

If previous form is to be believed, then the girls' heptathlon should come down to a head-to-head duel between world youth leaders Ukraine's Alina Shukh and Austria's Sarah Lagger.

If history is any indication, Russia is once again the strong favourite in this event.

Yu Yuzhen set a world youth best of 61.97m with the 500g implement at the Asian Youth Championships in Doha in May and starts a clear favourite in Cali.

Armed with three throws to her credit beyond 71 metres this season, Sofiya Palkina arrives in Cali as the overwhelming favourite.

The girls' shot put is shaping into a battle between the two most consistent putters in the world, Montenegro's Kristina Rakocevic and Germany's Julia Ritter.

Romania has harvested three gold medals in this event at past IAAF World Youth Championships and the East European nation will have high hopes that Georgina Iuliana Anitei can secure title number four.

With just one centimetre separating the top five entrants, the girl's pole vault promises to be one of the most unpredictable events at these championships.

World list leader Lisa Maihofer will arrive in Cali as clearly the girl to beat in the long jump.

Sydney McLaughlin will start an overwhelming favourite to add her name to a list of past winners of this event which includes Jana Pittman and Zuzana Hejnova, who went on to win world titles as seniors.

World youth leader Alexis Duncan arrives in Cali with strong ambitions to become the USA's fourth 100m hurdles champion.

Kenya has won this title at the last two IAAF World Youth Championships and in Sandra Felis Chebet, they have an athlete who looks capable of making it three-in-a-row for the proud steeplechasing nation.

Historically, this race has been dominated by Kenyans and Ethiopians and the distance running superpowers are both sending two athletes of considerable quality to Cali, so it will come as a major shock if the title doesn...

Kenya's Janeth Chepngetich looks to be the class of the field and is four seconds faster than her nearest competitors on paper, so there is every chance she can bring the world youth title back to Kenya for the fifth tim...

With six girls arriving in Cali with times of 2:05.59 or better to their credit, the 800m promises to be a wide open affair.

The US has a rich tradition for producing outstanding 400m sprinters and the latest talent could be 15-year-old Symone Mason who is the joint fastest in the field.

In the history of the World Youth Championships, only one female athlete, Great Britain's Jodie Williams, has managed to complete the sprint double but with the USA's Candace Hill slated to compete in both events in Cali...

US sprint sensation Candace Hill has already proven she is fast - very fast, in fact - and this week in Cali, the 16-year-old from Conyers, Georgia will get the chance to show the world just how good she is in a champion...