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Qualification system for athletics competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, to be held between 2-11 August 2024 published.
Senegal
The fourth meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission Dakar 2026 , held virtually on 13 October, focused on the latest activities of the Youth...
RSA
Mbuleli Mathanga and Glenrose Xaba delivered in style to win the national senior titles at the ASA Cross Country Championships in Rustenburg on Saturday.
Botswana
Botswana star Letsile Tebogo smashes his world U20 100m record, clocking 9.91 (0.8m/s) to retain his title, at the World Athletics U20 Championships in...
Uganda
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...
Nigeria
The reigning African champion Chioma Onyekwere becomes the first Nigerian woman to win Commonwealth Games gold in the Discus Throw event at the 2022...
Ethiopia
Addisu Yihune of Ethiopia out-sprinted Merhawi Mebrahtu of Eritrea to claim the men’s 5000m title 14:03.05 to 14:03.33 at the World Athletics U20 Championships...
Kenya
Team Kenya grabs the first gold medal of the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali22 after Betty Chelangat won the women’s 3000m final in 9:01.03...
Africa
Nigeria's Tobi Amusan wins gold, her compatriot Ese Brume, Jacob Krop and Mary Moraa of Kenya, and Uganda’s Oscar Chelimo scoop minor medals on...
Nigeria
Nigerian dynamite Tobi Amusan put together a flawless race to set a new world record of 12.12 secs in the 100m hurdles semifinals at...
Africa
Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay takes gold in women’s 5,000m; Kenyan Emmanuel Korir triumph in the men’s 800m; Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso soars to...
Nigeria
Sprinter Grace Nwokocha ran an outstanding anchor leg with 9.95 split to pulled the Nigerian women's 4x100m relay quartet back into contention for third...
USA & the Americas
Sydney McLaughlin breaks the world 400m hurdles record for the fourth time of her career, obliterating her previous best with 50.68 to win her...
Nigeria
British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, hosted a farewell reception for Birmingham Commonwealth Games bound Nigerian athletes, alongside the Minister of Sports and the President...
Liberia
Liberia's Joseph Fahnbulleh finishes just off the podium, clocking 19.84 secs, in the men's 200 metres final at World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Thursday.
Kenya
Werkuha Getachew sets an Ethiopian record for silver while her compatriot Mekides Abebe took bronze as Kenyan-born Norah Jeruto set a World Championships record...
Kenya
Two-time Olympic 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon strikes Kenya’s first gold in the women’s 1500m, clocking a blistering time of 3:52.96 to regain her world...
Morocco
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...
Ethiopia
Gotytom Gebreslase secures Ethiopia's second gold medal in the marathon, lowering the world championships record to 2:18:11 for victory, at the World Athletics Championships...