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Kenya: What Omanyala Thinks of Fast-Rising Sprinter Samuel Imeta After First-Ever Sub-10 in Athletics Career

All Africa News - March 1, 2023 - 07:49
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Commonwealth Games 100m champion Ferdinand Omanyala believes fellow Kenyan sprinter Samuel Imeta can scale the highest levels of his career so long as he remains disciplined and focused.
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Namibia: 18 Records Broken At Swimming Nationals

All Africa News - February 28, 2023 - 10:03
[Namibian] A successful Bank Windhoek Namibia National Swimming Championships concluded in Windhoek on Sunday with 18 new records established, while Dolphins ruled the roost in the club competition.
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Kenya: Who Will Stop This Man? Super-Fast Omanyala 'Edits' His World Lead At Nyayo

All Africa News - February 27, 2023 - 13:18
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Barely 24 hours after running the fastest 100m time in the world this year, Ferdinand Omanyala just can't stop, as the Commonwealth Champions shaved 0.02secs off to set a new fast time 0f 9.82secs.
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Africa: Ghana Postpones African Games to 2024

All Africa News - February 23, 2023 - 08:06
[The Herald] Accra -- The African Games, scheduled to take place in Ghana in August, have been postponed until next year after an agreement between major stakeholders running the multi-sport competition.
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Africa: Africa Games 2023 Impasse Resolved, New Date to Be Announced Soon

All Africa News - February 21, 2023 - 13:13
[Ghanaian Times] A new date for the 2023 African Games (AG) will soon be announced following the resolution of an impasse between the African Union (AU), the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC).
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Kenya: 'I Had Lost All Hope for Gold,' Chebet Says of Dramatic Finale At World Cross Country Championships

All Africa News - February 18, 2023 - 11:27
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Newly-crowned World Cross Country champion Beatrice Chebet admits she had given up all hope of securing gold before the dramatic collapse of world 10,000m champion Letesenbet Gidey who had been leading the race until then.
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Nigeria: 24 Teams Listed for Maiden Lagos Athletics Club Series

All Africa News - February 17, 2023 - 07:32
[This Day] Twenty-four teams from across the country were able to meet the February 15 deadline for the registration of clubs for the maiden Lagos Athletics Club Series.
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Nigeria: Top Distance Running Coach Hails Sports Minister On Cross Country Race

All Africa News - February 17, 2023 - 07:31
[This Day] High Altitude Athletics Club Coach, Stephen Nuhu has said that distance runners in Nigeria will forever be grateful to Chief Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development for giving them the attention they have longed be craving for as he prepares his athletes for the first National Cross Country race holding Saturday in Jos, the capital of Plateau State.
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Africa: Moraa Runs New Indoor Personal Best As Ethiopian Girma Breaks Komen's 25-Year Old Record

All Africa News - February 16, 2023 - 07:06
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Commonwealth Games champion Mary Moraa ran a new 800m indoor personal best as she finished second behind World and Olympic silver medalist Keeley Hodgkinson in the Lievin World Indoor Meeting in France on Wednesday night.
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Kenya: In the Form of His Life! - Omanyala Beats Olympic Champion to Set New National, African Record

All Africa News - February 16, 2023 - 07:03
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- For the second time in a week, Kenyan sprint sensation Ferdinand Omanyala has shattered his own record, chipping off a hundredth of a second as he won the Lievin World Indoor Tour meet in France in a new national and African 60m record, clocking 6.54secs.
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Kenya: Why Eliud Kipchoge and Faith Kipyegon Are 'Always Fighting' in Kaptagat Camp

All Africa News - February 15, 2023 - 09:58
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Double World and Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and Marathon World Record holder Eliud Kipchoge are massive football fans, and this has been their source of banter and heated arguments especially this season, as they train together at the Kaptagat Training camp in Eldoret.
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