A round-up of some of the top performances from the past week including another 60m hurdles PB for Lawrence Clarke and a 1.89m high jump by Morgan Lake to equal the British U20 indoor record

Indoor

Mondeville, February 7

Olympic 110m hurdles fourth placer Lawrence Clarke set a PB and UK lead of 7.59 in finishing second in the 60m hurdles which moves him up to ninth all-time in the UK. Ahead, Dimitri Bascou improved his 60m hurdles world lead to 7.51.

Further details and JP Durand photographs will appear in this week’s AW magazine

Trinec, Czech Republic, February 8

Double world junior champion Morgan Lake finished fourth in the high jump with a clearance of 1.89m to equal the British junior indoor record.

Gugl Indoor, Linz, Austria, February 6

Serita Solomon clocked a 60m hurdles PB of 8.11 before finishing third with 8.16 in a final won by Alina Talay of Belarus in 7.98.

Shelayna Oskan-Clarke finished third over 800m with 2:04.37, while Adelle Tracey was fourth, clocking an indoor PB of 2:05.80.

Seb Rodger won the 400m in 47.13.

Meyo Invitational, USA, February 6/7

Tiffany Porter clocked a 7.99 60m hurdles and went on to win with 8.01.

Chemnitz, February 7

World indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty equalled his season’s best with a 6.57 to finish second.

Ghent, February 7

Niall Flannery won the rarely-run indoor 400m hurdles in 50.64.

New Balance Games, Boston, February 7

Trell Kimmons won the 60m in 6.51 from Asafa Powell’s 6.52. Kiwi Nick Willis won the men’s mile in 3:51.61. Ryan Whiting won the shot with 21.43m.

Perche Elite Tour, Nevers, February 7

Renaud Lavillenie and Fabiana Murer set world pole vault leads with 6.01m and 4.83m respectively.

Birmingham Games, February 7/8

Commonwealth Games high jump silver medallist Isobel Pooley won with a height of 1.88m.

Double Commonwealth finalist Eden Francis won the shot with a throw of 15.94m.

Antonio Infantino won the 200m in 20.97.

More details and David Griffiths photographs will appear in this week’s magazine

Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, February 7/8

World youth champion Anita Hinriksdottir set a European junior indoor 800m record with 2:01.77.

New Mexico Classic, USA, February 6

Steve Lewis pole vaulted 5.71m at altitude.

Cross country

Milton Keynes Cross Challenge, February 7

Jenny Nesbitt and Adam Hickey won the senior events at Teardrop Lakes as a Cross Challenge fixture was held in Milton Keynes for the first time.

Find an online round-up here, while more in-depth coverage will be in this week’s AW magazine

IAAF Permit cross-country, Chiba, Japan, February 8

The 2013 winner Charles Ndirangu of Kenya won the men’s 12km easily in 36:14. Australian Zoe Buckman was a winner of a mostly all Japanese women’s 8km in 28:37.

ING Eurocross, Diekirch, Luxembourg, February 8

German Benedikt Karus won the men s 10.2km in 33:39, 20 seconds ahead of Great Britain s Ben Tickner.

Kent Cross-Country League, February 7

Olympic marathoner Scott Overall won the men’s race in 30:54 from leading junior Abel Tsegay to win a bet with a Blackheath and Bromley club-mate that if he ever did a Kent League event his vegan team-mate Richard Hall would have to eat a Big Mac burger!

Steve Roe’s report and a photograph will appear in this week’s AW

Metropolitan League, Wormwood Scrubs, February 7

Mohamud Aadan, the Middlesex cross-country champion, won the final League race of the season in 24:52. Naomi Taschimowitz won the women’s race in 25:28.

Alastair Aitken’s report and a photograph will appear in this week’s issue

Surrey Men’s League, Richmond Park, February 7

Belgrave’s Ugandan Paskar Owor won the third men’s race in 28:39.

A report and Guy Gibbons photograph will appear in this week’s magazine

Surrey Ladies League, Coulsdon, February 7

Cath Ansell won her third league race of the season in 31:07.

A report and Jeremy Hemming photograph will appear in this week’s issue

Birmingham & District League, February 7

BUCS runner-up Jonny Davies won in 30:00.

A report will appear in this week’s AW magazine

Road

Wokingham Half Marathon, February 8

Paul Martelletti won in 64:18 from former winner Phil Wicks, who timed 64:33.

Hayley Munn won the women’s race in an UK lead of 75:43 from 2008 Olympic marathoner sixth-placer Mara Yamauchi who ran 75:58 in only her third race since dropping out of the 2012 Olympics.

Chichester Priory 10km, February 8

Toby Lambert regained the title he last won in 2010, claiming victory in 30:03 which is the fastest 10km by a Briton this year.

Commonwealth Games 5000m and 10,000m finalist Elinor Kirk won the women’s 10km in a PB 33:57 which puts her top of the women’s rankings.

Martin Duff’s report will appear in this week’s issue

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