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Herpasa Negasa of Ethiopia remains the favourites in the field with his world-class personal best of 2:03:40, while Kenyan Elisha Rotich, with a PB...
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East Africa
Ethiopian Tigst Assefa makes history with extraordinary World Record, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge triumphs once more, and Amanal Petros breaks German record at the 2023...
East Africa
Ugandan Victor Kiplangat takes debut win while Kenyan Sheila Jerotich comes from behind in stunning sister act at the 2021 N Kolay Istanbul Marathon.
Africa
Kenyan Leonard Langat wins the 2021 Vienna City Marathon with a time of 2:09:25 while debutant Kenyan Vibian Chepkirui ran 2:24:29 to take a...
Africa
Kenyan Agnes Tirop and Ethiopian Senbere Teferi created history at the adizero Road To Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
East Africa
Emmanuel Korir and Peruth Chemutai win first gold medals for Kenya and Uganda respectively on a great night for East Africa at the Tokyo...
East Africa
Kenya’s Cosmas Lagat and Ethiopia’s Worknesh Alemu upset the odds and take the honours at the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2019
East Africa
Ethiopia's Melese Nberet delivered a late kick to take gold in a world U18 lead of 1:47.12 at the IAAF World U18 Championships Nairobi...
East Africa
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...
East Africa
After a visa hitch made him miss the Hannover Marathon, Philip Sanga gets another opportunity in Germany -on the start list of the METRO...
East Africa
There are joint leaders in three of the 32 individual Diamond Races after seven meetings, and with the tables beginning to take shape, it...
East Africa
Kenyan Felix Kandie won the men's race in 2:08:32 while Yebrgual Melese of Ethiopia clocked 2:23:49 to take the women’s race at the Volkswagen...
East Africa
East African duo Caroline Rotich of Kenya and Lelisa Desisa from Ethiopia won the men's and women's races at the 119th Boston Marathon on...
East Africa
Kenya’s Hillary Kipkorir Kemboi and Ethiopia's Genet Yalew claimed the men's and women's titles at the 2014 Obudu International Mountain Race in Cross Rivers...
Africa
African athletes storm to three national records, a World Junior Record and various world-leading times on a record-breaking night at the 2014 Meeting Herculis...
East Africa
Distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie will open the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon Expo at London Dockland's Excel Exhibition Centre at 11am on Wednesday...
East Africa
African top marathon runners are ready to break Mohammed (Mo) Farah's challenge, and the course record, at the 2014 Virgin Money London Marathon on...
East Africa
Reigning Olympic 800 metres champion and world record holder David Rudisha, from Kenya, will return to IAAF Diamond League action at the Doha 2014...
East Africa
Ethiopia's three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele notched up another impressive milestone in an already glittering career by winning the Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris...
East Africa
Kenyan Joyce Chepkirui fulfilled the expectations and clocked a world-class time of 66:19 to win the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon on Saturday.
East Africa
Kenyan Leonard Komon wins the 34th Vattenfall Berlin Half Marathon, on his debut at the distance, with a world-class time of 59:14 edging out...
East Africa
Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and Gladys Cherono led Kenyan men's and women's race victories at the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen on...
East Africa
Sally Kipyego sets a new course record (1:08:31) and Geoffrey Mutai clocked 1:00:50 ahead of Mo Farah (1:01:08) to win the women's and men's...
East Africa
Kenyan athletes swept the podium and clean team honours at the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at the Kololo Golf Course in Kampala, Uganda...
East Africa
Five-time winner, Zersenay Tadese from Eritrea, vying for an unprecedented sixth individual gold medal at the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen...
East Africa
Kenya will bid for the 2017 IAAF World Youth Championships in Nairobi, Athletics Kenya (AK) President Isaiah Kiplagat announced on Monday.
East Africa
Moses Kipsiro, will lead the senior men's team to the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at Kololo Memorial grounds in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday...
East Africa
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba crowned a spectacular winter season with victory in the women's 3000m clocking 8:55.04 ahead of Kenyan Hellen Onsando Obiri at the...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman won back to back World Indoor 800m gold medal on Sunday at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland after overtaking...
Djibouti
Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman won his tiny East African country’s first ever gold medal in a global athletics competition when he sped to victory in...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba smashed another world Indoor record, her third in 2 weeks, this time the two-mile record at the British Indoor Grand Prix...
East Africa
German-based Ethiopian, Eleni Gebrehiwot, defended her title at the ING Euro Cross Country meeting in the Luxembourg town of Diekirch on Sunday. Gebrehiwot, 31, won the...
East Africa
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba broke the world indoor 3000m record with a stunning 8:16.60 run at the Stockholm’s XL Galan, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting...
East Africa
Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba smashed the women’s 1500m World Indoor Record at the IAAF Indoor track and field meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany on Saturday. Dibaba,...
East Africa
A combination of the biggest pot of prize money and most pancake-flat course among the major marathons means that extraordinary results can be expected...
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