Lemngole and Nathaniel shine at 50th Athletissima Lausanne – Wanda Diamond League
On signings Doris Lemngole (Kenya) and Ezekiel Nathaniel (Nigeria) impress with debut professional win at the 50th Athletissima – Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne.
Yomog Meje is a former Nigerian junior athlete and the Associate editor at Athletics Africa.
On signings Doris Lemngole (Kenya) and Ezekiel Nathaniel (Nigeria) impress with debut professional win at the 50th Athletissima – Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne.
How to watch African athletes perform at the 50th Athletissima meeting – Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday 20 August 2025.
CAA Region II Senior Championships in Accra rescheduled to 18-19 August, 2025 following the deaths of Ghana’s military and political leaders in a helicopter crash.
Kenyan Rosemary Wanjiru heads the women’s field of the 51st BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on 21 September, 2025.
CAA Region II Senior Athletics Championships to hold at the University of Ghana Sports Complex Legon, Ghana from 15-17 August 2025.
South Africa’s Lythe Pillay dominated the Men’s 400m final at Rhine Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games, clocking 44.84 at the Lohrheidestadion in Bochum.
Find out where and how to watch, and follow the 3rd CAA Combined African U18/U20 Championships in Abeokuta, Nigeria – 16-20 July, 2025.
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo (Botswana) and NCAA 200m silver medallist Makanakaishe Charamba (Zimbabwe) will face off with Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles (USA) at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco on Friday July 11, 2025.
Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel races to first sub-48 time in NCAA semifinal history for 400m Hurdles at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
How to Watch World record-holder Gudaf Tsegay and Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet clash at the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea – Wanda Diamond League in Rome, Italy, on Friday 6 June 2025.
Find out where and how to watch Gudaf Tsegay run, and follow the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold – Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb.
This amount is additional to the State of Qatar’s annual contribution to WADA of more than USD 200,000, and was committed during a visit by WADA President, Witold Bańka, to Qatar.
Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, three-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of two world records, will compete at Hayward Field on 5 July seeking her seventh Pre Classic 1500m title.
WATCH – Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo on his first 100m race of the season at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China.
How to Watch: The 2025 Wanda Diamond League kicks off in Xiamen, China with an incredible line-up on Saturday 26 April 2025.
Find out where and how to watch and follow the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold – FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix in Africa
Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia set a new championship record of 3:54.86 to claim the 1500m gold ahead of compatriot Diribe Welteji at the World Indoor Championships Nanjing 25.
Tapiwanashe Makarawu (Kentucky) equalled the Zimbabwean record to win the men’s 200m title in 20.13 ahead of compatriot Makanakaishe Charamba (Auburn), who finished second in 20.16, at the 2025 NCAA D1 Indoor Championships in Virginia.
Ethio Telecom sponsors the 42nd Janmeda International Cross Country Championship, strengthening the role of African telecom in sports.
WATCH – Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola receiving recognition as the out of stadium athlete of the year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.
WATCH – Ethiopian Sembo Almayew and Italian Mattia Furlani receiving recognition as the Rising Stars of the year at the World Athletics Awards 2024 in Monaco.
This annual digital campaign, Play True Day, unites the global anti-doping community in raising awareness of the importance of clean sport.
Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha lowers the previous mark of 57:31 – recorded three years ago in Lisbon by Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda – by just one second at the 2024 Valencia Half Marathon.
Ethiopian dominance as Yalemzerf Yehualaw breaks the course record in 2:16:52 whilst Tsegaye Getachew reclaims the men’s title with 2:05:38 at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon 2024 on Sunday.
Kenya’s Daniel Kinyanjui and Loice Chemnung are victorious in the Brasov Running Festival 2024’s tRUNsylvania 10K on Sunday.
Ethiopia’s Lemlem Hailu and Kenya’s Grace Loibach Nawowuna to head the 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K women’s field.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
Abdisa Fayisa wins men’s 1500m final and Saron Berhe takes the women’s gold for Ethiopia, whilst Kenyan Edmund Serem tops the steeplechase with world U20 lead of 8:15.28 on the final day of the World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24.
Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot and Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen to contest the men’s 1500m at the 49th Athletissima: The 2024 edition of the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 22 August.
World Athletics set to become the first international federation to award prize money at an Olympic Games, starting at this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris.
Degitu Azimeraw and Tadesse Abraham emerged victorious at the Zurich Marató Barcelona – a World Athletics Gold Label road race.
Hopes for records were ruined by the weather conditions as Panuel Mkungo clocked 2:10:35 while Beatrice Cheptoo crossed the line on Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square after 2:27:09.
Bernard Muia and Catherine Cherotich take eventful races in Munich as the 2023 GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON produced a Kenyan double triumph on Sunday.
The renowned Kenyan athlete, aged 38, will be competing in the prestigious road race for the sixth time.
Samwel Mailu promises to support Kenyan talents after breaking the course record in Vienna.
Kenyans Ruth Chepngetich and Rodgers Kwemoi, both course record holders, will return for the N Kolay Istanbul Half Marathon on April 30.
Jacob Kiplimo clinches the gold medal in the men’s 10,000m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in a new Commonwealth Games record of 27:09.19, to maintain Uganda’s domination of the event in the absence of world champion Joshua Cheptegei.
Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali, the Olympic champion, is now the world champion after storming to world 3000m steeplechase gold in 8:25.13 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Kenyan superstar Eliud Kipchoge will return to the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on 25 September 2022, four years after his spectacular world record there.
Team Kenya to Maurice 2022 CAA African Senior Athletics Championships will take part in track and field events, and in the men and women’s 4x100m and 4x400m relay races.
When five of the world leading distance runners gathered ahead of TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2022 on Sunday, one common question for them was: “How fast do you think you will run on Sunday?”
Ethiopians Tsegaye Mekonnen and Guye Adola are among the top runners for the 2022 Haspa Marathon Hamburg on April 24.
World record holder Yalemzerf Yehualaw from Ethiopia will run her debut marathon race at the 2022 Haspa Marathon Hamburg on April 24th.
Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei breaks Sifan Hassan’s course record while Felix Kipkoech runs world lead at the 2021 GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON.
Nigerian athletes protest the decision of Athletics Integrity Unit to exclude their teammates from competing at the Tokyo Olympics due to uncompleted Out of Competition Tests (OCTs).
Letesenbet Gidey improved Sifan Hassan’s mark by five seconds to win the Ethiopian Trials in 29:01.03 on Tuesday.
With clean sheets after two of the three ISTAF meetings sprinter CIV’s Arthur Gue Cisse and long jumper Malaika Mihambo are in pole positions to win the ISTAF-Trophy.
Distance running great Kenenisa Bekele will lead the Ethiopian charge for world class times at the 46th edition of the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on Sunday September 29, 2019.
The IAAF has released the provisional entry list for the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018, which will take place from 8-9 September in the Městský Stadium in Ostrava Vítkovice, Czech Republic.
Kwesé Sports will provide live coverage of events at the 21st African Senior Athletics Championship, Asaba 2018 from 1 – 5 August, on their 24-hour sports TV station, Kwesé Free Sports.
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