Kenya’s Hellen Obiri won the Women’s 1 Mile race at the 2017 Müller Anniversary Games leg of the IAAF Diamond League in London on Sunday, breaking her national record and setting a new meeting record of 4:16.56.
South Africa’s Olympic 400m champion, Wayde van Niekerk clocked the fastest time in the world in 2017 and broke the long-standing meeting record at the eighth leg of the IAAF Diamond League series in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday 6 June.
Athletics South Africa concluded a successful 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the OR Tambo International Hotel, Kempton Park in Johannesburg on Saturday 17 June.
The 2016 Olympic champion is aiming to run faster at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON on September 24 than his compatriot Dennis Kimetto who set the world record, 2:02:57, on the renowned fast course in 2014.
South African sprinters Wayde van Niekerk and Clarence Munyai set world best times in the 300m event at the 2017 IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic on Wednesday 28 June.
Stephen Mokoka and Cornelia Joubert secure gold at the 2017 ASA Half-Marathon Championships at the Nelson Mandela Bay in Port Elizabeth on Saturday 24 June.
The South African track and field team won 24 medals at the 2017 CAA Southern Region Senior Championships held in Harare, Zimbabwe on 10 and 11 June.
South Africa announced an eight-member track and field team as part of a 24-member Team SA for the IV Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas from 19-23 July.
South African Olympic 110m Hurdles semi-finalist Antonio Alkana broke the African and South African records in his specialist discipline on Monday in Prague, Czech Republic.
Irene Cheptai and Alex Korio made it a Kenyan double at the TCS World 10K Bengaluru 2017 race, winning at the 10th edition of the race in 28:12 and 31:51 respectively.
Luvo Manyonga bettered his own African long jump mark by 3cm, launching a massive 8.65m leap to earn the gold medal in his very first attempt in Potchefstroom.
Kenya’s Mary Keitany took 41 seconds off the women’s-only world record at the Virgin Money London Marathon, running 2:17:01 at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday 23 April.
Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei broke four world records at the 2017 Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon when winning the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in 1:04:52 on Saturday 1 April.
South African teenager Sokwakhana Zazini sets a new World Youth 400m Hurdles record, clocking 48.84 to win the Under-18 men’s final on the opening day of the Athletics Gauteng North (AGN) Championships in Tshwane on Friday 17 March.
Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir broke the world record in the women’s half marathon today, clocking 1:05:06 at the RAK Half half marathon in Ras al-Khaimah, UAE.
World 1500m champion Genzebe Dibaba added to her growing list of record-breaking achievements by breaking the world 2000m record at the 2017 Miting Internacional de Catalunya in the Spanish city of Sabadell on Tuesday Feb 2.
Tanzania’s Alphonce Simbu and Kenya’s Bornes Kitur take the honours and USD$42,000 first prize cheques at the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2017
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