Tebogo wins second Jesse Owens Rising Star Award
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo won the Jesse Owens Rising Star Award again at the 2025 Diamond League Final in Zurich on Thursday.
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo won the Jesse Owens Rising Star Award again at the 2025 Diamond League Final in Zurich on Thursday.
World records set by Agnes Ngetich, Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Mondo Duplantis, and two world U20 short track records set by Cameron Myers have been ratified by World Athletics.
Olympic and world medallist Faith Cherotich and Nelly Chepchirchir won Diamond League titles at the Weltklasse Zürich meeting on Thursday 28 August, 2025.
Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi edges Britain’s Max Burgin to claim his third Diamond League 800m crown at the 2025 Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich on Thursday.
Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo, the world half marathon record-holder, won the 21K de Buenos Aires – a World Athletics Label road race – in Argentina on Sunday.
How to follow and watch African athletes at the Weltklasse Zürich – Wanda Diamond League in Zurich, Switzerland from 27-28 August 2025.
How to follow and watch African athletes at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme meeting – Wanda Diamond League in Brussels, Belgium on Friday 22 August 2025.
The three-day competition, which will be held at the Arena Torun from 20-22 March 2026, will get underway with action in the men’s heptathlon on the morning of the first day.
On signings Doris Lemngole (Kenya) and Ezekiel Nathaniel (Nigeria) impress with debut professional win at the 50th Athletissima – Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne.
Gallery: African athletes in action at the 50th Athletissima – Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday 20 August, 2025.
World Athletics opens the host selection process for the 2028 edition of the World Athletics Ultimate Championship.
How to watch African athletes perform at the 50th Athletissima meeting – Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday 20 August 2025.
Gallery: African athletes in action at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial – Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland, on Saturday 16 August, 2025.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon clocked 8:07.04, the second-fastest time in history, smashing the African 3000m record at the 2025 Wanda Diamond League in Silesia, Poland.
Nigerian athlete Ezekiel Nathaniel set a national record of 47.31 seconds in the men’s 400m hurdles at the 2025 Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has named 26 athletes for the CAA Region II Senior Athletics Championships on August 18-19, 2025 in Accra, Ghana.
The 2027 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships awarded to South African city of Cape Town, marking the first time the event will be held in Africa.
The Ultimate Championship launches in Budapest in 2026, when the world’s greatest will settle the debate across three sessions of action from 11-13 September.
Laban Chepkwony shatters David Rudisha’s meeting record in men’s 800m, plus victory for Marie-Josee Ta Lou Smith in 100m at 2025 Istvan Gyulai Memorial meeting in Budapest on Tuesday.
Ethiopians Dejene Megersa and Buze Diriba are among the favourites to win the 2025 Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on 26 October.
On strengthens collegiate roster, adding three of NCAA’s most exciting distance runners from Kenya – Doris Lemngole, Marion Jepngetich, and Joy Naukot to its NIL roster.
The 2025 Wanda Diamond League event will kick off with the pole vault competition at the City Event on 19 August, in Ouchy (Lausanne), on the shores of Lake Geneva.
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.
Olympians Farida Abaroge, Perina Lokure Nakang and Musa Suliman are among the six athletes named on the Athlete Refugee Team (ART) that will represent millions of refugees at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.
Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel, a 2025 NCAA Champion and one of the fastest athletes in the world in 400m hurdles, has signed a professional contract with Swiss sportswear brand On.
Zimbabwean sprint sensation Tapiwanashe Makarawu joins Swiss sportswear brand On after a breakout season with the University of Kentucky in 2025.
Gallery: African student-athletes in action during the Athletics competition at the Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games in Bochum, Germany from 21-27 July, 2025.
Gallery: African future stars in action at the 3rd CAA Combined African U18/U20 Championships in Abeokuta, Nigeria from 16-20 July, 2025.
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.
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