TRACK & FIELD

Britain’s athletes will need to win at least 10 medals at this summer’s European Championships if they are to keep on track for the London 2012 Olympics, funding body UK Sport announced yesterday.

Hercules Wimbledon’s leading woman sprinter Emily Martin warmed up for the coming summer track and field season by twice improving on her 60m best at the Surrey indoor championships at Sutton Arena on Saturday.Martin, 21, won her heat in 7.81 seconds to take two-fifths of a second off her previous best,

Spain plans a reform of its anti-doping laws in order to allow sports federations access to court evidence gathered by state authorities against athletes under doping suspicion, sports minister Jaime Lissavetzky said.But Lissavetzky did not go into details,

UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee says he is “disappointed” by Phillips Idowu’s decision to withdraw from the World Indoor Championships.World triple jump champion Idowu, 31, pulled out of the event, which runs from 12-14 March

GREG Rutherford believes he is one of the world’s premier long jumpers - and he is out to prove it at this week’s World Indoor Athletics Championships. The 23-year-old heads to Doha as part of a 37-strong Great Britain squad having booked his spot on the plane with gold at the World Trials and UK Championships in Sheffield.

Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Technical Director has announced that World Indoor defending champion, Olusoji Fasuba, was not entered for this year’s championship beginning this weekend in Doha because he was not in form.

Juan van Deventer (26), seventh at the Beijing Olympics in the 1 500m, made an impressive indoor debut at the International PSD Bank in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Wednesday evening when he set a new SA Indoor 1 500m record of 3 min 37.25sec finishing second behind Augustine Choge of Kenya.

Former World and Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China has confirmed his participation at next week’s IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Laverne Jones-Ferrette of the US Virgin Islands took victory in the 60m sprint at the Sparkassen Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, as one of eight athletes to set world best marks for the year.

Moses Kipsiro has won himself $13,000 (sh26m) for finishing sixth in the World Best 10km road run in San Juan, Puerto Rico.