Sweden’s Armand Duplantis failed in another attempt to break his own pole vault world record but continued to impress ahead of the Paris Olympics at the Diamond League meet at Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday.

Fiji’s Reki Selita Roberts has managed to settle in third place in the Under-18 in Day 1 Heptathlon event gaining 513 points at the Oceania Athletics.

Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ramped up preparations for a title defence at this year’s Paris Games by running a world-leading time of 52.70 seconds on Friday in her first 400-metre hurdles race in over a year.

It will be an exciting day as athletes from around the region will be battling it out at the Oceania Athletics at the HFC Bank Stadium starting today.

Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet won the men’s 5,000 metres in the second fastest time ever with a sizzling final lap, while Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway hurled himself across the finish line to win the men’s 1,500m in Thursday’s Oslo Diamond League meet.

Over 200 athletes will be representing the country in the Oceania Championships at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva from Saturday.

Filimoni Vuli Waqa’s influence was not confined to the Fiji Finals, he was also a mentor, motivator and a beacon of hope for over hundreds of thousands of athletes.

Athletics Fiji is deeply saddened with the passing of Filimoni Vuli Waqa, a man who dedicated over 45 years of his life to the sport.

Hannah Cockroft has won 100m gold at the World Para Athletics Championships for the seventh time in a row.

The athletics fraternity in Fiji and the Oceania region has lost one of its icons Filimoni Waqa, who passed away this morning.

South African Akani Simbine won the 100 metres in a world-leading 9.90 seconds at the Atlanta City Games on Saturday, while American Noah Lyles shone in the 150 metres.

Double Olympic 800-metre champion Caster Semenya appeared at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday to continue her challenge against World Athletics regulations that female athletes with differences in sexual development (DSDs) medically reduce their testosterone levels.