In 2012, Ashton Eaton broke the world record at the US Olympic Trials with a score of 9039 points and went to the London 2012 Olympics Games as the outstanding favourite for the gold medal. This year, the 25-year-old only lies in 13th place in the wor...

The preview for the Heptathlon could have been a very different one just a week or so ago but the fact that the two biggest names, Great Britain s London 2012 Olympic Games champion Jessica Ennis-Hill and Russia s 2011 World champion Tatyana Chernova, ...

The medal prospects in the men s Javelin seems to be much more open than in recent years, ahead of this year s major championship.

In 1980, the Soviet Union's Sergey Litvinov took the silver medal in the Hammer Throw at the Olympic Games in Moscow behind the great Yuriy Sedykh.

Robert Harting may have succumbed to his first defeats since 2010 recently but the 2009 and 2011 World champion will still be the man to beat as he goes in search of his third consecutive title.

Ryan Whiting leads the 2013 lists as the only man over 22 metres this year, having set a personal best of 22.28m when winning at the opening IAAF Diamond League meeting of the year in Doha back in May.

After being so long in the shadow of other throwers at major championships, not least Czech Republic s London 2012 Olympic Games champion and World record holder Barbora Spotakova who will be missing in Moscow because of maternity leave, Germany s Chri...

Expectations will be high of a home victory as the host nation Russia boast three of the top five throwers in the world this year.

Few events in Moscow will have such a clear favourite as the women s Discus, with many expecting Sandra Perkovic to add the world title to the Olympic crown she took in London last year.

Valerie Adams has won everything that the sport has to offer but still wants more and is the overwhelming favourite for this event.