Treble Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games champion Elaine Thompson-Herah has made the final five for this year's World Athletics' Female World Athlete of the Year award, as well as last year's winner Yulimar Rojas.

A 10-person shortlist for World Athletics' Female World Athlete of the Year honour has been released, with Jamaica's triple Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Elaine Thompson-Herah and the European Female Athlete of the Year Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands headlining the nominees.

Anzhelika Sidorova, who was in tears after having to settle for Olympic silver in Tokyo, experienced a reversal of fortune at the Diamond League Final in Zurich as she became only the third women’s pole vaulter to better 5.00 metres outdoors, winning with a Diamond League record of 5.01m.

A windy night at the Stade de la Pontaise in Lausanne blew several Olympic champions off course in tonight’s Wanda Diamond League meeting as Elaine Thompson-Herah, Hansle Parchment and Mondo Duplantis suffered rare defeats in the women’s 100 metres, men’s 110m hurdles and pole vault.

Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas tonight earned the Olympic title she deserved – and the world record she desired.

Selemon Barega of Ethiopia won the first athletics gold of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the men's 10,000 metres, here tonight after outsmarting the two fancied Ugandan runners, world champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo.

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon laid down a huge marker for her chances of retaining the Olympic women’s 1500 metres title in Tokyo as she lowered her national record to 3min 51.07sec - moving to fourth on the all-time list - in winning at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco.

Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas is in awesome form as she prepares to compete in tomorrow night's second Diamond League meeting of the season at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, where she retained her world triple jump title in 2019.

More than 20 technical directors from different National Federations joined an event held by the Venezuelan Olympic Committee (COV) that aims to reinforce Olympic values.

There was some irony on Saturday (December 5) in the fact that the Female World Athlete of the Year award went to a competitor whose event, the triple jump, would have been relegated from the top tier of the sport’s annual programme in 2020 had coronavirus not thrown all sporting plans into disarray.

Sweden's 21-year-old pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, who set two world records this season, today became the youngest-ever Male World Athlete of the Year winner, with the Female World Athlete of the Year award going to Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who set a world indoor triple jump record.

Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas set a world indoor triple jump record at the Meeting Villa de Madrid, the final World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting of the season, tonight. 

Mutaz Essa Barshim and Nafissatou Thiam have been named as the World Athletes of the Year at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) annual awards night here.

A monumental women’s triple jump final here ended - eventually - with Colombia’s 33-year-old world and Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen being deposed by her exuberant 21-year-old rival Yulimar Rojas, who thus claimed Venezuela’s first gold in the history of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ World Championships here.