Just two days after laying their head teacher Lasarusa Senibale to rest, students of Suva Methodist Primary School took to the tracks today at the Suva Zone One Primary School Athletics.

Ugandan Jacob Kiplimo dominated the men’s field in the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, breaking the tape in two hours, two minutes and 23 seconds in his second race over the distance, while Ethiopian Hawi Feysa enjoyed a lopsided win in the women’s race.

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee senior administrator Jane Wong Niubalavu has achieved a milestone after graduating in Lausanne, Switzerland, with the International Olympic Committee Certificate for Safeguarding Officer in Sport.

Botswana has declared a public holiday to celebrate its team’s gold medal in the men’s 4x400m relay at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo to become the first African winners of the event.

Noah Lyles scorched to a fourth successive world 200 metres gold on Friday as he delivered his trademark drive to the line to triumph in 19.52 seconds, pipping compatriot and perennial bridesmaid Kenny Bednarek, who took silver in 19.58.

American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden capped a dominant season in some style on Sunday by winning the women’s 100 metres world title in 10.61 seconds, the fastest time ever run at a world championships and the fourth quickest of all time.

Alphonce Felix Simbu snatched gold in the first photo finish at a major championship marathon on Monday, edging out German Amanal Petros in a dramatic race to the line to give Tanzania its maiden world title.

Oblique Seville scorched to the world 100 metres gold in a personal best 9.77 seconds on Sunday, leading a Jamaican 1-2 ahead of Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, second again in 9.82.

Fiji’s long-distance runner Yeshnil Karan delivered a personal best performance in the men’s 1,500m at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, clocking 3:50.77.

Usain Bolt, whose 9.58 seconds world record for the 100 metres is now 16 years old, says he could have run 9.42 in the carbon-plated “super-spikes” that today’s sprinters are racing in.

Fiji’s triple Pacific Games gold medalist Yeshnil Karan will make his World Athletics Championships debut in the 1500m this Sunday in Tokyo, Japan.

South African sprinter Akani Simbine has been close to winning medals many times, finishing in the top five in the 100 meters at four major championships.