The men&rsquo;s 800m at the last IAAF World Championships in London produced a race that will be fondly remembered in France, and far beyond, as Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, super-talented but injury-prone, boldly defeated a field of runners who, in several cases, had run a lot faster than him in the preceding weeks and months.
Bosse&rsquo;s winning time, a season&rsquo;s best of 1:44.67, was, in today&rsquo;s exalted currency, decent but hardly stellar. Nor was the time of the silver medallist, Poland&rsquo;s Adam Kszczot &ndash; 1:44.95.
Unlike the 2012 Olympic final, when David Rudisha lowered his world record to 1:40.91 with 18-year-old Nijel Amos of Botswana in his wake in 1:41.73, this global final was about tactics rather than all-out speed.
And there is every likelihood that the 800m at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 will be determined by similarly wily means.
As far as this event is concerned, this season&rsquo;s main drama has centred on Amos &ndash; still incredibly, only 25 &ndash; who won at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco in 1:41.89, the fastest seen this year and the fastest time recorded since the 2012 Olympics.
Just over a week later, however, Amos&rsquo;s season appeared to have come off the rails as he pulled up during the 800m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London and hobbled from the track.
All done? Not so. Two weeks later, back he came for the first IAAF Diamond League final in Zurich, where he took second place in 1:42.98 behind an inspired Donavan Brazier of the United States, who won the Diamond trophy with a personal best of 1:42.70.
Brazier and his US colleague Clayton Murphy, fifth in Zurich in 1:43.94, will be serious contenders in Qatar, as will the men who finished third and fourth in that race, Canada&rsquo;s Brandon McBride and Emmanuel Korir, who is sixth on the world all-time list and the second fastest Kenyan ever behind Rudisha after clocking 1:42.05 last year.
Korir&rsquo;s compatriot Ferguson Rotich, second on this year&rsquo;s world list with 1:42.54, is another obvious medal contender.
But what of the defending champion? On the eve of the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris last month Bosse, in characteristically quirky fashion, announced that he regarded the Pole who had followed him home in London, Kszczot, as the most dangerous threat to his title, more dangerous even than Amos.
What persuaded Bosse in this was the superb competitive record of a man whose 2011 personal best of 1:43.30 puts him just inside the 60 fastest performers ever.
Kszczot has two world silvers, world indoor gold, silver and bronze, and three European golds both outdoors and indoors.
Bosse, meanwhile, proclaimed in Paris that the longstanding hamstring problem that had caused him pain for four years had been successfully treated, and that he felt &ldquo;great&rdquo;. The next day he finished sixth in the Stade Charlety, running his fastest time of the season, 1:45.07, which puts him 22nd on the entry list. But you cannot discount this unpredictable talent. Any race with Bosse in it is an interesting race.
Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Wesley Vazquez has honed his tactics on the international circuit this year and was rewarded with a national record of 1:43.83 when finishing a close second to McBride in Paris.
Amel Tuka of Bosnia and Herzegovina has returned to form this year, clocking a season&rsquo;s best of 1:43.62. The last time he bettered 1:44 was in 2015, the year in which he took the world bronze medal.
The home supporters, meanwhile, will cheer on Qatar&rsquo;s Abubaker Haydar Abdalla who started the season in fine form by winning the Asian 800m title at Doha&rsquo;s Khalifa Stadium in a PB of 1:44.33. His form has dipped slightly since then, but he will be keen to raise his game again in front of a home crowd.
Given the mix of competitors this time around, the men&rsquo;s 800m promises to be one of the most fascinating unfolding narratives of these Championships.
Mike Rowbottom for the IAAF

The men’s 800m at the last IAAF World Championships in London produced a race that will be fondly remembered in France, and far beyond, as Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, super-talented but injury-prone, boldly defeated a field of runners who, in several cases, had run a lot faster than him in the preceding weeks and months.

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Jeptum clocks 2:19:48 in French capital, Teklu sets 59:06 course record at Barcelona Half

Jeptum breaks French all-comers’ record at Paris Marathon, Teklu breaks course record in Barcelona

Caio Bonfim and Valeria Ortuno took top honours and led a number of athletes under the World Athletics Championships qualifying standards at the Podebrady Walking meeting &ndash; the first Gold level event in this year&rsquo;s World Athletics Race Walking Tour &ndash; on Saturday (2).
Brazil&rsquo;s Bonfim, the 2017 world bronze medallist, moved away from his rivals in the closing kilometres to equal the meeting record of 1:18:54 and triumph ahead of Sweden&rsquo;s 2019 world bronze medallist Perseus Karlstrom &ndash; who had set that meeting record last year &ndash; and Ireland&rsquo;s European U23 silver medallist David Kenny in the men's 20km race.
Mexico&rsquo;s Ortuno made her break earlier on in the women&rsquo;s 20km race and maintained that momentum, recording 1:29:25 to finish half a minute clear of Germany&rsquo;s Saskia Feige and Ecuador&rsquo;s Johana Ordonez. 
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 As well as kicking off the Gold calendar in the 2022 World Athletics Race Walking Tour, Saturday&rsquo;s meeting also marked the 90th anniversary of the race walk competition in the Czech spa town.
Just four weeks after his 35km win at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Muscat 22, Karlstrom returned to Podebrady to defend his 20km title, with wins in 2020 and 2016 also featuring on his CV.
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Bonfim, meanwhile, was looking to go one better than his runner-up spot at the South American Race Walking Championships in Lima in February, and build on his eighth-place finish over 35km in Muscat.
Karlstrom was part of the lead group that passed 5km in 19:52 and 10km in 39:40. Bonfim had been biding his time a few seconds back off the front of the pack but was to the fore as 7km was reached in 27:53. Four athletes forged ahead, with Bonfim and Karlstrom joined by Kenny and Ecuador&rsquo;s Brian Pintado through the 10km mark.
The group had split by 13km, with Kenny and Bonfim together ahead of Karlstrom, and Pintado just off the pace.
Karlstrom was the next to fall back but he battled on, determined not to let Kenny and Bonfim out of his sight &ndash; the leaders passing 15km in 59:24, seven seconds ahead of Karlstrom. As Bonfim moved away over the next kilometre, Karlstrom caught Kenny and they looked locked in battle for the runner-up spot. Bonfim was 18 seconds ahead at 17km &ndash; 1:07:13 to 1:07:31 &ndash; and had stretched his lead to 28 seconds with two kilometres to go, as Karlstrom made a bid to drop Kenny.
Bonfim was unchallenged as he secured success in 1:18:54, just seven seconds off his own national record recorded in La Coruna in 2019, while Karlstrom managed to hold off Kenny &ndash; 1:19:42 to 1:19:44 &ndash; with the Irish walker letting out a roar as he crossed the finish line and saw his time, having taken more than three minutes off his PB.
Pintado finished fourth in a PB of 1:19:47, while Spain&rsquo;s Alberto Amezcua joined them in dipping under 80 minutes with 1:19:58 for fifth. A total of 12 athletes finished under the 1:21:00 entry standard for July&rsquo;s World Athletics Championships Oregon22. 
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 In the women&rsquo;s race, Ortuno had been joined by Spain&rsquo;s Olympic fourth-place finisher Maria Perez at the front of a six-strong group that passed the 5km point in 22:16. But over the next few kilometres Perez&rsquo;s red cards resulted in a two-minute penalty and she was later disqualified.
That left Ortuno to do battle with her compatriot Alegna Gonzalez, the fourth-place finisher at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat who was fifth, one place behind Perez, in Tokyo.
They were side-by-side at the 10km mark, when the clock showed 44:23, with Ordonez and Feige a few seconds back. When Gonzalez dropped out a couple of kilometres later, Ortuno remained in control, although her closest challengers had closed the gap to five seconds.
Ortuno could not be caught, however, and was 10 seconds ahead of Ordonez at 15km (1:06:43), with Feige a further 15 seconds behind. While Ortuno, who placed 47th at the Olympics in Tokyo, remained ahead, Feige was fiercely giving chase and was four seconds off Ordonez with a kilometre to go.
Like Bonfim in the men&rsquo;s race, Ortuno had a clear path to victory with her win secured in 1:29:25, but half a minute back was a competitive clash for the runner up spot. Feige pipped Ordonez by just a single second as they clocked respective PBs of 1:29:57 and 1:29:58.
Italy&rsquo;s Valentina Trapletti finished fourth in 1:30:49, while Czech Republic&rsquo;s Eliska Martinkova (1:30:53 PB) and Tereza Durdiakova (1:31:09) were fifth and sixth on home soil &ndash; the top five all under the entry standard for Oregon.
After racing in Podebrady for the fourth time and claiming her first win, Ortuno said: &ldquo;I am very happy. First place and the time for the World Championships in Oregon. My first win here, it&rsquo;s amazing for me.&rdquo; Despite the cold conditions, she added: &ldquo;I like this weather, it&rsquo;s good for the race.&rdquo;
In the international team competition, Czech Republic claimed top spot ahead of France and Italy. In the men&rsquo;s match, Italy won ahead of Slovakia and France.
A number of athletes in the U20 races are targeting this year&rsquo;s World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 and that resulted in some competitive action and fast times. Mexico&rsquo;s 16-year-old Angel Vazquez Montes improved his PB to 42:15 to win the U20 men&rsquo;s 10km race walk ahead of Czech Republic&rsquo;s Adam Zajicek (42:19) and Jaromir Moravek (42:36), while the U20 women&rsquo;s title was claimed by Mexico&rsquo;s 17-year-old Karla Ximena Serrano, who clocked 45:20 to take exactly two minutes off her previous best. Finland&rsquo;s Heta Veikkola was second in 46:02 and Costa Rica&rsquo;s Sharon Lisseth Herrera Soto third in 46:04.
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Caio Bonfim and Valeria Ortuno took top honours and led a number of athletes under the World Athletics Championships qualifying standards at the Podebrady Walking meeting.

Bonfim and Ortuno prevail in Podebrady

Australian decathlete Cedric Dubler&rsquo;s encouragement of his teammate Ashley Moloney during the closing stages of the Tokyo Olympic decathlon has been acknowledged as an iconic moment in Olympic sport.
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With Moloney needing to run fast enough in the 1500m &ndash; a middle-distance event for the specialists, a gruelling test for multi-eventers, let alone at the conclusion of two days&rsquo; competition &ndash; to secure the bronze medal, Dubler yelled encouragement at him around the final bend.
Moloney heard Dubler&rsquo;s voice &ldquo;bouncing around my cranium like a bat out of hell&rdquo;. The action has recently been acknowledged by the Australian Olympic Committee with a special award.
On Saturday night (2) at the&nbsp;Australian Track and Field Championships in Sydney, Dubler was the one in need of motivation in the closing stages of the 1500m. Automatic selection for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 would go to those who won the title in their event and achieved, or had already achieved, the World Athletics qualifying standard, 8350 points in the case of the decathlon.
Dubler had the win in his pocket after a stunning first day, scoring 4478 points. He avoided the pitfalls in the 110m hurdles, the discus, the pole vault with its ever-present nightmare of a &lsquo;no height&rsquo;, and the javelin. All that remained was the 1500m, an event multi-eventers like about as much as root canal dental surgery, and he had four minutes and 41 seconds to get it done.
On the final bend, Dubler needed some inspiration. But the spark had to come from within. Moloney was not competing, there was no competitive threat, and he was a clear and isolated second. He dug deep, found it and finished in 4:37.48, for 696 points and a final tally of 8393. Job done, title won and a place on the team for Oregon secured. 
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 Three Australians had clinched a World Championships spot in the first three days of the senior national championships &ndash; Ollie Hoare in the 1500m, Nina Kennedy in the pole vault and Matt Denny in the discus. Dubler and six others added their names to the list on the final night.
Joining Dubler in taking the chance for selection at this first opportunity were Olympic silver medallist Nicola McDermott in the high jump, Tokyo fourth-place finisher Peter Bol in the 800m, pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall, Catriona Bisset in the 800m, Jessica Hull in the 5000m and Liz Clay in the 100m hurdles.
In addition, distance runner Jack Rayner has already clinched selection in the 10,000m, along with 20km walkers Declan Tingay and Jemima Montag. Their national titles were decided separately.
Those with any doubts as to what the certainty of selection means to an athlete would have had them dispelled if they had heard the series of roars unleashed by Clay after she won the 100m hurdles in 12.72.
But the race of the night &ndash; indeed, perhaps the race of the championships &ndash; came at the very last in the women&rsquo;s 5000m. That there is a bit of depth now to Australian track middle and long-distances is well known. This field boasted Olympic representatives Rose Davies, Izzi Batt-Doyle and Jenny Blundell, Olympic 1500m finalist Hull and Britain&rsquo;s Calli Thackery.
Another Olympian, Eloise Wellings, took the pace out for six laps with a series of 72-second laps. Batt-Doyle took up the lead then, the pace slowing, but only marginally. At 4000m, a final kilometre of anything under three minutes was required to better the automatic standard of 15:10.00. Sadly, Batt-Doyle was the only one of what was then the leading group to miss out.
Hull, a finalist at 1500m in Tokyo, began to turn the screws some 500 metres out. At the bell, she needed only a 71-second final circuit to secure the win. She did better than that, finishing almost 10 metres clear of Davies, 15:06.13 to 15:07.49. Thackery was third in 15:09.08, a second the right side of the standard; Natalie Rule came from the clouds to grab fourth in 15:10.24 with the gallant Batt-Doyle next in 15:10.97. 
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 Like Clay, Bisset gave her opponents no chance in the women&rsquo;s 800m. Taking the first lap in around 57.8 seconds, she continued to increase her lead through the third 200m and up the final straight to record 1:59.83, some three seconds clear of Claudia Hollingsworth who is still a few days away from her 17th birthday.
Though his 1:48.78 was modest, Bol, too, was a class ahead of his opposition. After a pedestrian first lap of around 55.5 seconds, Bol gradually drew away from his rivals to win from fellow Tokyo representative Charlie Hunter and New Zealand&rsquo;s Brad Mathas.
In her first competition of the year, McDermott won the high jump at 1.94m before failing three times at 1.98m. World indoor silver medallist Eleanor Patterson was a late withdrawal with a minor foot injury. McDermott clinched a place in the team for Oregon; Patterson will assuredly join her in time.
Marschall made his journey to the pole vault title a little more exciting than it needed to be with two misses at his opening height of 5.40m. By way of balancing the ledger, one of his attempts at 5.80m was close. But a clearance at 5.60m ensured his win and passage to Eugene.
The championships continue for one more day but the only open events are relays. The first selections in the teams for Oregon are expected to be announced early next week, with only the automatic selections to be released in the first tranche.
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Ten athletes qualify for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 with wins at the Australian Track and Field Championships.

Dubler, McDermott and Hull among winners to book Oregon places in Sydney

Some of Japan&rsquo;s leading hurdlers will be in action when the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series arrives at Tokyo&rsquo;s Olympic Stadium for the&nbsp;Seiko Golden Grand Prix&nbsp;on 8 May.
Japanese 110m hurdles record-holder Shunsuke Izumiya, joint national 100m hurdles record-holders Asuka Terada and Masumi Aoki, and Olympic 400m hurdles semifinalist Hiromu Yamauchi will take on some of the world&rsquo;s top athletes as they look to further improve their records in the early part of the outdoor season.
Izumiya clocked 13.06 when winning the national title in Osaka last June &ndash; a time that placed him fifth in the world on the season top list &shy;&ndash; and went on to reach the semifinals at the Olympics in Tokyo. He was second in last year&rsquo;s Ready Steady Tokyo meeting, part of the World Athletics Continental Tour.
Terada and Aoki went head-to-head at the&nbsp;Ready Steady Tokyo meeting, with Terada taking the win in&nbsp;12.99, and the pair have matching PBs of 12.87.
Joining Yamauchi in the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles field will be last year&rsquo;s Ready Steady Tokyo winner Kazuki Kurokawa and Takatoshi Abe. Along with Izumiya, this year's 110m hurdles line-up includes Shunya Takayama and Rachid Muratake.
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The World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series heads to Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium for the Seiko Golden Grand Prix on 8 May.

Japanese record-holders Izumiya, Terada and Aoki to race in Tokyo

Some of the world&rsquo;s best long jumpers will battle in Birmingham when the Wanda Diamond League meeting returns to the recently redeveloped Alexander Stadium on 21 May.
Olympic and world champion Malaika Mihambo, two-time world indoor champion Ivana Vuleta, world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk and world indoor bronze medallist Lorraine Ugen have been announced for the M&uuml;ller Birmingham Diamond League, with 50 days to go until the event.
Germany&rsquo;s Mihambo won her first global gold with a 7.30m leap to secure the world title in Doha in 2019 and became the Olympic champion in Tokyo in a compelling competition during which the top eight women leapt beyond 6.80m for the first time in history.
&ldquo;In spite of my success in Tokyo, last year had many challenges and it was important for me to get totally healthy before building towards the defence of my world and European titles this year,&rdquo; said the 28-year-old, who won in Birmingham in 2018.
&ldquo;Medals are important, but I always want to improve and to jump further. I&rsquo;ve trained well throughout the winter, and I&rsquo;ve enjoyed the process, but now I&rsquo;m looking forward to getting back into competition and Birmingham will provide me with the opportunity to set a benchmark in a very strong field.&rdquo;
Vuleta is a proven championship performer and the Serbian 31-year-old successfully defended her world indoor title on home soil in Birmingham last month with a leap of 7.06m.
&ldquo;I owed it to myself to win in Serbia and it meant so much to achieve that in front of a home crowd,&rdquo; said the 2021 Wanda Diamond League champion.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve enjoyed a successful career so far, but I have big goals still to achieve &ndash; not least improving on my World Championships bronze medals &ndash; and I hope to get my season off to a strong start in Birmingham.&rdquo;
Ukrainian Bekh-Romanchuk won an emotional silver medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 in the triple jump and will return to her specialist discipline in Birmingham.
&ldquo;My medal in Belgrade was for my country and my people,&rdquo; said the 26-year-old. &ldquo;While my heart remains in Ukraine, I cannot lose sight of my dreams. I finished second in the European Championships in 2018 and the World Championships in 2019, and my aim is to improve on both of those positions this summer. I&rsquo;m looking forward to getting my long jump campaign underway in Birmingham.&rdquo;
British indoor record-holder Ugen finished third in Belgrade with a best of 6.82m, matching her podium performance from the World Indoor Championships in Portland in 2016.
&ldquo;I was delighted to take bronze at the World Indoors, but I know I have to be more consistent with my jumps and I&rsquo;m confident I can achieve that,&rdquo; she said.
&ldquo;Opening my season with a strong performance in front of a home crowd at the Alexander Stadium will give me confidence ahead of the rest of the season, including &ndash; I hope &ndash; Eugene for the World Athletics Championships and a return to Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games later in the summer.&rdquo;
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Malaika Mihambo, Ivana Vuleta, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk and Lorraine Ugen have been announced for the Wanda Diamond League meeting.

World's leading long jumpers to renew rivalry in Birmingham

With strong fields, both course records are under threat at the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris, a World Athletics Elite Label road race, on Sunday (3).
Six months after its 46th edition, which was rescheduled due to the pandemic, the Paris event returns to its more usual place in the calendar.
The men&rsquo;s line-up features six men who have already clocked sub-2:05 times, meaning the course record of 2:04:21 set by Elisha Rotich in 2021 could be improved. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Asefa Mengstu is the fastest man in the field courtesy of his 2:04:06 clocked in Dubai three years ago, but his compatriot Seifu Tura would look to be the favourite, having recently shown his good shape. The winner of the 2021 Chicago Marathon ran a half marathon personal best of 58:36 in February.
Tura&rsquo;s marathon PB of 2:04:29 is 16 seconds faster than Hillary Kipsambu&rsquo;s. The Kenyan, who turned 37 in February, will also be a serious threat. The Paris streets must be vivid in his memory, as he ran his PB of 2:04:44 last October in the French capital. On that occasion he placed third, finishing nine seconds ahead of Ethiopia&rsquo;s Abayneh Degu, who set a PB of 2:04:53 that day and will also be in contention on Sunday.
Abayneh Degu and Deso Gelmisa will likely have a say as well. Degu ran 2:04:53 in Paris last year, while Gelmisa has a personal best of exactly the same time, run in Valencia in 2020.
Morhad Amdouni of France, who finished eighth at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, could target the French record of 2:06:36.
Julien Wanders will make his debut over the distance. The Swiss athlete is the European half marathon record-holder with 59:13.
The PB of Namibia&rsquo;s Helalia Johannes &ndash; 2:19:52 set in 2020 &ndash; is more than a minute faster than the women&rsquo;s course record set by Purity Rionoripo in 2017. Kenya&rsquo;s Judith Jeptum should be the world bronze medallist&rsquo;s main contender. Jeptum, who is 14 years younger than Johannes, proved her current form by clocking a half marathon PB of 1:05:28 one month ago.
The Kenyan is the third-fastest athlete in the elite women&rsquo;s field with 2:22:30, 1:27 off Besu Sado&rsquo;s personal best. The Ethiopian, who clocked that time of 2:21:03 in 2019, will also be looking for a top spot.
Not to be discounted are Ethiopia&rsquo;s Tigist Abayechew and Beyenu Degefa. Abayechew has run 2:22:45 at her best, while her compatriot finshed third in Valencia in December in 2:23:04.
Quentin Guillon for World Athletics
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<h2>Kipkemboi&nbsp;and Teklu to strike in Barcelona</h2>
Kenya's Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Haftu Teklu will be among the leading athletes at the eDreams Mitja Marat&oacute; de Barcelona, a World Athletics Elite Label event, on Sunday (3). While world 5000m silver medallist Kipkemboi&nbsp;tackles the distance for the first time, Teklu will be aiming to retain his title.
In the absence of multiple world record-holder Genzebe Dibaba, who withdrew from the entry list a few weeks ago due to injury, her fellow Ethiopian Asnakesh Awoke, third last year in 1:07:47, emerges as one of the favourites. The 26-year-old was runner-up the previous year in a PB of 1:07:04 and should be eager to improve on her previous appearances and take top spot.
However, Kenya's Kipkemboi, a 29:50 10km specialist, should not be discounted for the win. The 29-year-old has shown great form this winter with podium places at the Atapuerca and Italica cross country races on Spanish soil and more recently came second at the national championships in Eldoret. Ethiopia's Gete Alemayehu, holder of a 1:08:23 personal best, might well complete the podium. 
<img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/fa093ecf-d8a1-482d-bad0-db7ea7964ffb.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi&nbsp;(&copy; Getty Images)
 Spain's Alejandro Rodriguez, a former 1:45:97 800m specialist, will be in charge of the pacing duties, aiming to cover the opening 10km at 3:06/3:08 pace in the hunt for a sub-1:06:00 final time. The course record stands at 1:05:09, which was then a world record, set by Kenya's Florence Kiplagat in 2015.
The defending champion Teklu should be regarded as the main favourite in the men&rsquo;s race. The 26-year-old won in style last October, setting a course record of 59:39 on his debut over the distance. Teklu has competed twice in 2022 over shorter distances indoors, setting PBs of 3:39:47 for 1500m in Sabadell and 7:52:10 for 3000m in Torun last month.
Back to his specialist event, the Ethiopian athlete will be aiming for an improvement on his performance last year to grab back-to-back titles.
&ldquo;Last year, the organisers gave me the chance to make my debut here and I managed to win,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I'm now a more experienced athlete, I already know the circuit and I'll be targeting a quicker performance on Sunday.&rdquo;
Teklu heads a powerful Ethiopian squad which includes another two athletes who have dipped under the 60-minute barrier &ndash; Abe Gashahun (59:46) and Antenatyehu Dagnachew (59:48) &ndash; alongside last year's third-place finisher Regasa Chala (1:00:38) and debutants Gebru Redahgne and Teresa Nyakora.
Kenya's Titus Mbishei, fresh from a 1:01:53 clocking in Ras Al Khaimah in February, joins them, as do Eritrea's Berhane Tesfay (1:00:54) and Uganda's Ali Chebres.
Burundi's Thierry Ndikumwenayo, recent victor in Serradilla at the closing event of this season's World Athletics Cross Country Tour, will be the opening pacemaker, while Kazakhstan's Shadrack Koech, a 1:00:12 athlete, should lead the front group to 15km at a brisk rhythm.
Overall, more than 13,000 runners will take place in the event. Weather forecasters predict an ideal morning for running with a very slight wind, sun and a 10&deg;C temperature by the time of the event.
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<h2>Kiplimo eyes record&nbsp;in Prague</h2>
Kenya&rsquo;s Philemon Kiplimo and Brenda Jepleting lead competitive fields at the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon, a World Athletics Elite Label road race, on Saturday (2).
Kiplimo, with the 58:11 he ran in Valencia in 2020, leads the list of eight athletes on the entry list to have dipped under the hour for a half marathon, while Jepleting is among the six athletes in the women&rsquo;s field with sub-70-minute PBs.
Kiplimo, who has won half marathons in Boston and Bahrain over the past few years, will be looking to go one better than his runner-up finish in Prague in 2020 (59:56) and improve his PB, a time that currently places him eighth on a world all-time list led by Uganda&rsquo;s Jacob Kiplimo with the 57:31 world record he ran in Lisbon last year. 
<img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/61b674fdf23a9661d69e5f1e.jpg" alt="" width="100%" />Philemon Kiplimo&nbsp;(&copy; Mahmood Al Hamadi)
 Among the leading challengers will be Kenya&rsquo;s Kennedy Kimutai, who sits three places below Philemon Kiplimo on the world all-time list with the 58:28 he ran for fourth place in Valencia last year.
Another athlete to watch for is their compatriot Keneth Renju, who ran 58:35 in Ras Al Khaimah in February, while Mathew Kimeli joins them with a sub-59:00 PB having run 58:43 in Valencia.
The event record is the 58:47 set by Ethiopia&rsquo;s Atsedu Tsegay in 2012.
In the women&rsquo;s race, Jepleting looks set to be joined by her compatriots Irene Cheptai and Nelly Jepchumba in challenging for the top spot.
Jepleting ran 1:05:44 to finish fourth in Valencia in October and won in Herzogenaurach the month before. Cheptai is the 2017 world cross country gold medallist who finished sixth in the 10,000m at the Tokyo Olympics and her half marathon best is the 1:06:43 she clocked in New Delhi in 2020.
Jepchumba, meanwhile, improved her PB to 1:07:46 to set a course record at the Madrid Half Marathon last year.

A look ahead to this weekend's World Athletics Elite Label road race action.

Competitive clashes on the cards for road races in Paris, Barcelona and Prague

Perseus Karlstrom,&nbsp;Maria Perez and Miguel Angel Lopez will be among the athletes racing for victory at the Podebrady Walking meeting &ndash; the first Gold level event in this year&rsquo;s World Athletics Race Walking Tour &ndash; on Saturday (2).
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As well as kicking off the 2022 Gold calendar of events, it also marks the 90th anniversary of the legendary race walk competition, taking place at the Spa Colonnade.
Four weeks after his 35km win at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Muscat 22, Sweden&rsquo;s Karlstrom returns to action to race over 20km &ndash; the distance at which he claimed a world bronze medal in Doha in 2019. The 31-year-old retained his 20km title at the European Race Walking Team Championships title in the Czech spa town last year, also winning in Podebrady in 2020 and 2016, and finishing third in 2017.
Among those looking to challenge Karlstrom will be Spain&rsquo;s 2015 world 20km race walk champion Lopez, who finished third over 35km behind winner Karlstrom at the team event in Muscat. Second in Podebrady in 2017, when he claimed European Race Walking Team Championships silver ahead of bronze medallist Karlstrom, Lopez finished fourth last year.
Another world gold medallist on the entry list is Colombia&rsquo;s 2017 world champion Eider Arevalo, who also has a win in Podebrady to his name thanks to victory in 2013.
South Africa&rsquo;s Wayne Snyman and Kevin Campion of France have both achieved runner-up finishes in Podebrady and return to the Czech town, where they will also be joined by athletes including Brazil&rsquo;s Caio Bonfim, Britain&rsquo;s Tom Bosworth and Ecuador&rsquo;s Brian Daniel Pintado.
In the women&rsquo;s race, Olympic fourth-place finisher Perez will be looking to go one better than her runner-up spot behind Italy&rsquo;s Antonella Palmisano last year. Perez has won twice over 20km in Spain so far this year and also claimed victory at the Spanish Open 35km Race Walking Championships in January, clocking 2:39:16 for the second-fastest ever women&rsquo;s 35km race walk. The 1:28:03 she recorded to finish second in Podebrady in 2021 is Perez&rsquo;s third-fastest performance for the 20km event.
She will again go up against Mexico&rsquo;s Alegna Gonzalez, who was one place behind Perez at last year&rsquo;s Olympic Games and finished fourth earlier this month at the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat. Four years earlier, Gonzalez claimed the 10,000m race walk title at the World U20 Championships in Tampere.
Germany&rsquo;s Saskia Feige and Italy&rsquo;s Valentina Trapletti, who finished in the top 10 in the 20km in Muscat, plus Ecuador&rsquo;s Magaly Bonilla and Johana Ordonez, both in the top 10 of the 35km event, are all entered. Colombia&rsquo;s Sandra Galvis won in Podebrady in 2017 and also returns.
Tereza Durdiakova leads home hopes, the national champion having finished fifth in 2020 and ninth over 35km at the European Race Walking Team Championships last year.
The event, which includes an international match for senior and U20 athletes, will see the women&rsquo;s 20km race walk start at 13:00 local time, with the men&rsquo;s 20km event at 15:00. A live stream of the action will be available on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/czatletika" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Czech Athletics Facebook page</a>.
<a href="https://www.podebrady-walking.cz/en/novinky/start-list-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Entry lists</a>

Perseus Karlstrom, Maria Perez and Miguel Angel Lopez will be among the athletes racing for victory.

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