St Kitts’ sprinter Kim Collins continued to astound and defy Father Time at the traditional Russian Winter meeting, the second of the 2015 IAAF Indoor Permit meetings, which ironically fell on the warmest February day for many years in Moscow with temperatures about 3 degrees Celsius outside the CSKA Arena on Sunday (1).

Jamaica’s Olympic and world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce earned an expected victory in the 100m at the opening IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha, crossing the line in 11.13 on Friday (9).

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 Strzalkowski.

Four days of athletics action at the XVII Mediterranean Games in the Turkish city of Mersin came to an end on Saturday (29), with the best marks including Greece’s Kostadinos Baniotis High Jump win with personal best of 2.34m.