It has been over 600 days since we last saw Germany’s Lilli Schwarzkopf as she celebrated her silver medal in the heptathlon from the London 2012 Olympic Games, second only to Great Britain’s Jessica Ennis.

As the 31 May deadline approaches, entries for the 2014 European Athletics Innovation Awards and its 10,000 CHF first prize have begun to arrive at the European Athletics head office in Lausanne.

It has been a week of celebration in England to mark one of the landmark moments in athletics history.

Maksim Dyldin has enjoyed a lot of success as part of the 4x400m Russian relay team, with bronze from the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and Moscow World Championships last year, as well as gold from the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelon...

It seems that running has never been more popular, as more and more people discover the fun, health benefits and personal satisfaction that go with the sport.  

Respected Russian high jump coach Yevgeniy Zagorulko believes Javier Sotomayor’s legendary 2.45m men’s high jump world record, which has stood since 1993, will be broken this season.