Vivian Cheruiyot after surprisingly not winning last year's IAAF World Athlete of the Year title was rewarded with a more glittering crown when being named Laureus Sportswoman of the year in London last night.

Monaco - The IAAF is deeply saddened to receive the news that István Rózsavölgyi, a middle distance legend and former World record holder, died on 27 January. He was 82.

04 February: The all-time list for the Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon [supplied by Ken Nakamura], the 61st edition of which is on 5 February, reads like a historical honour roll.

It will be a golden moment on Friday evening as Wanganui celebrates triple Olympic gold medallist Peter Snell's historic world mile record at Cooks Gardens in 1962.

It's definitely that time where we all reflect back on the year gone by, and make some prognostications, some plans and goals for the year ahead. So here's my two cents!

Boasting a brand new course and city centre finish, the 2012 Chester Half Marathon is celebrating 30 years of success.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Zazzle Bay to Breakers announced the opening of general registration for the 101st running of the World's most famous footrace.

Kathrine Switzer (born January 5, 1947) is the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it.

Monaco - We are delighted to open the celebration of the IAAF Centenary by opening a dedicated section of the IAAF website.

The ‘official’ obituaries of Frank Horwill, who died on Sunday, January 1, at the age of 84 will doubtless hint at his unoffical role in British athletics over the last 50 years as Troublemaker-in-Chief. There is a tradition for the obituarist to observe the ‘nil nisi bonum’ (nothing but good) of the recently deceased, but since Frank would have scoffed at that, so do we.