Meseret Defar of Ethiopia missed the indoor world record by less than half a second as she won the 5,000 meters at the GE Galan on Wednesday. Defar finished in 14 minutes, 24.85 seconds, just 0.48 seconds short of the record she set at the same venue last year. Cuba’s Dayron Robles won the 60-meter hurdles in 7.49 seconds while countryman Alexis Copello won the men’s triple jump with a... 

Russian Yelena Isinbayeva (Photo by Mark Lee/Allsports) Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva easily won the Moscow invitational meeting with a season’s best 4.85 metres on Sunday but failed to better her own indoor world record. The Russian, attempting to set her 28th world record both indoor and outdoor but the first on home soil, twice failed to clear the bar at 5.01 before missing...