Bahrain’s Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet smashed the eight-year-old world record at the Stade de France tonight as she clocked 8min 52.78sec to take more than six seconds off the mark set by Russia’s Gulnara Galkina in winning the Beijing 2008 title.

Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has auctioned off his Rio 2016 Olympic silver medal to raise funds for a three-year-old boy with a rare form of cancer. 

Kendra Harrison, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record last month after failing to qualify at the US Olympic track and field trials, is heading into tomorrow’s International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Paris with another world record in mind.

Kendra Harrison of the United States, who broke the 28-year-old world 100 metres hurdles record of 12.21sec in London last month with a time of 12.20 after failing to qualify in the US Olympic Track and Field trials, offered evidence of what Rio missed tonight as she defeated a strong field in 12.42 at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

Isaiah Kiplagat, who was suspended last year as Athletics Kenya’s President amid reports that he and two other officials had tried to suppress positive doping tests of Kenyan athletes and attempted to extort money from those who had failed tests, has died at the age of 72.

Olympic silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa has not returned home from Rio 2016 after he made a public gesture of defiance against the regime in his native Ethiopia when crossing the line during the men’s marathon race.

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge demonstrated once again here that he is the foremost marathon runner of the moment as he remorselessly rid himself of all opposition to claim gold ahead of the two last men to have broken under his pace, Fayisa Lelisa of Ethiopia and Galen Rupp of the United States, who took silver and bronze respectively.

European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen believes that Sebastian Coe, head of the International Association of Athetics Federations (IAAF) - overlooked for International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership this year - should renew his case sooner rather than later.

Britain’s Mo Farah matched what was once the unique feat of Finland’s Lasse Viren here as he completed his second successive 5,000 and 10,000 metres double at the Olympics with victory at the shorter distance on a final night here when individual track golds also went, surprisingly, to Matt Centrowitz of the United States in the men’s 1500m and, inevitably, to South Africa’s Caster Semenya in the women’s 800m.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Sebastian Coe has written - but not yet delivered - a "handwritten letter" for Yelena Isinbayava supposedly offering his congratulations following her election here to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

China's Lijiao Gong, women's Olympic shot put bronze medallist at the London 2012, is set to inherit silver following the retrospective disqualification for doping of Russia’s Evgenia Kolodko, and her team-mate Li Ling will move up to bronze.

After anchoring Jamaica home to gold in the men’s 4x100 metres, and thus completing a perfect 100m/200m/relay record in the last three Olympics, Usain Bolt diverted from his now customary lap of honour to kneel at his finishing point in lane three, bend down to the track and kiss the Games goodbye.

Yelena Isinbayeva has officially announced her retirement from athletics, a day after being elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

It is a straightforward enough template: Usain Bolt, triple Olympic 100 and 200 metres champion. 

It’s seven years since Kerron Clement won a global 400 metres hurdles title - but victory today in 47.73sec clearly came as no surprise to him as he had already made space in his medals cabinet for a first Olympic gold.