Poland's world indoor champion Adam Kszczot will have home support on his side as he looks to bounce back from a rare defeat in the men's 800 metres in the latest leg of the World Athletics Indoor Tour tomorrow.

on what was his season debut.Canada's Shawn Barber - world champion in 2015 - figures to be one of Duplantis

Armand Duplantis cleared six metres in the men's pole vault and came very close to setting a new world

 Duplantis added that he feels "very fit" and is "excited about the rest of the season."

European champion Armand Duplantis is to make his season debut in Düsseldorf alongside the two men he

six-metre jumps last season.Joining them in the field is hometown hero Bo Kanda Lita Baehre, who like Duplantis

World champion Grant Holloway and fellow sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson have won the respective men's and women's The Bowerman award, the highest accolade given to the year's best student athletes in American collegiate track and field.

Bowerman, the co-founder of Nike, ahead of a field which included the likes of Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis

The United States won three out of four golds on day five of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships here as Sam Kendricks retained his men's pole vault title in dramatic fashion and Noah Lyles and Donavan Brazier, both 22, earned their first titles at 200 and 800 metres, respectively.

Kendricks came through a monumental struggle with Sweden’s 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis

retained his world pole vault title after a monumental competition against Sweden's 19-year-old Armand Duplantis

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ImagesGold medallist Sam Kendricks of the United States and the silver and bronze medallists Armand Duplantis

Had it not already been taken, the International Association of Athletics Federation World Championships that start here tomorrow could have used the phrase associated with the Sochi 2014 Winter Games: "Hot. Cool. Yours".

Kendricks of the US defending his title against a field including the 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis

Team Europe secured a 123-point triumph over Team USA as The Match athletics event concluded in Minsk.

season's best throw of 90.03m.Ukraine's Yuliya Levchenko won the women's high jump, with Sweden's Armand Duplantis

managed seven first-time clearances from 1.87m all the way through to a lifetime best of 2.02m, while Duplantis

Five Olympic champions, 11 world champions and 12 defending champions will converge on Zurich tomorrow, for the first of two International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League finals.

 Poland's Piotr Lisek has made 6.01, while Sweden's 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis

Sifan Hassan produced a stupendous final lap in the women’s mile here to finish in 4min 12.33sec – thus breaking the 23-year-old world record of 4:12.56 held by Russia’s 1996 Olympic 800 metres and 1,500m champion Svetlana Masterkova.

6.01m to win in last Friday’s Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.Nineteen-year-old Swede Armand “Mondo” Duplantis

As athletes train under sheer blue sky in warm and humid conditions before tomorrow's ninth stage of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League series, some will be aware of an additional responsibility.

Kendricks of the US, who reached 5.95m in Switzerland, and Sweden's 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis

Noah Lyles trimmed 0.08 seconds off Usain Bolt’s meeting record at the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League in Lausanne as he won the men's 200 metres in 19.50sec.

Kendricks of the United States, who reached 5.95m, and Sweden’s 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis

Caster Semenya came back, saw and re-conquered at the Prefontaine Classic meeting  held at the temporary venue of Stanford, California today as she won by almost three seconds in the women’s 800 metres at the seventh International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meetings of the season.

champion, had to give best to the prodigious talent of 19-year-old European champion Armand "Mondo" Duplantis

The main part of a sell-out 14,200 crowd in Oslo tonight saw half their dream come true tonight when home runner Karsten Warholm won the men’s 400 metres hurdles in a European record of 47.33sec.

– triumphed in the men’s pole vault with 5.91m, with Sweden’s 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis

Cool and wet conditions are expected for tomorrow’s Bislett Games in Oslo – the fifth of this season’s International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League meetings – but home athletes such as Karsten Warholm and the Ingebrigtsen brothers will be guaranteed to raise the temperature.

sub-nine minute territory.The men's pole vault features Sweden’s 19-year-old European champion Armand Duplantis