Cheruiyot, Ayana and Sum to open outdoor season in Doha
African star athletes Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya), Almaz Ayana (Ethiopia) and Eunice Sum (Kenya) are eagerly anticipating their outdoor season opener at the Doha Diamond League today.
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African star athletes Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya), Almaz Ayana (Ethiopia) and Eunice Sum (Kenya) are eagerly anticipating their outdoor season opener at the Doha Diamond League today.
Top Kenyan stars Asbel Kiprop and Ezekiel Kemboi are aiming to kick off their Olympic year in grand style as they open their outdoor season on Friday in Doha.
African record-holder and two-time world bronze medallist Sunette Viljoen of South Africa is the sole African representative in the women’s Javelin at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday 6 May.
World indoor champion Francine Niyonsaba (Burundi) will take on 2013 world champion and three-time Diamond Race winner Eunice Sum (Kenya) in the women’s 800m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rabat, Morocco on 22 May.
Kenya’s Violah Jepchumba and Ali Kaya of Turkey cruised to dominating victories at the third edition of the Vodafone Istanbul Half Marathon, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, on Sunday.
Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge produced a #oneinamillion performance to smash the men’s course record & become the second fastest marathon runner in history at the London Marathon on Sunday.
Organisers of the Okpekpe International 10km Road Race – an IAAF Bronze label race – have sealed an agreement with MYLAPS Sports Timing for the 2016 event.
Ethiopian 21-year-old Lemi Berhanu Hayle edged defending champion Lelisa Desisa while compatriot Atsede Baysa ran away from a world-class field to win at the 120th Boston Marathon on Monday.
World champions Almaz Ayana and Vivian Cheruiyot will meet in a scintillating 3000m clash at the Doha 2016 meeting, the opening event of the 14-meeting IAAF Diamond League series, on Friday 6 May.
Ethiopia’s Meselech Melkamu smashed the course record by more than two minutes in 2:21:54 and Tesfaye Abera took the men’s race in 2:06:58 in 2016 Haspa Marathon Hamburg.
Caster Semenya made history with a remarkable treble victory on the second and final day of the ASA Senior Track and Field Championships at Coetzenburg Stadium, in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
Alyssa Conley and Henricho Bruintjies dominated the sprint races at the 2016 South African Senior Championships in Athletics at Coetzenberg in Stellenbosch on Friday.
South African Lusapho April took the HAJ Hannover Marathon for the third time after 2011 and 2013, his time of 2:11:27 clinching him a place in the Olympic marathon in Rio.
Robert Chemosin won the Vienna City Marathon, clocking a fine 2:09:48 in very windy conditions while Shuko Genemo ran 2:24:31 to take the women’s title on Sunday.
South Africa’s Lusapho April hopes to improve his three-year-old course record of 2:08:32 at the 26th edition of the HAJ Marathon Hannover on Sunday.
More than eight countries are set to participate in next month’s fourth Okpekpe International 10km road race in Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria.
Ethiopia’s Abayneh Ayele has been added to the Haspa Marathon Hamburg’s elite field after his fine performance at the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff.
Kenyan Richard Mengich returns with biggest career win in Berlin, clocking a personal best of 59:58 to take the 2016 Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday 3 April.
IOC Commissions sees 60 per cent increase in women, African members in less than three years – another step in the implementation of the Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms.
Ethiopia’s Guteni Shone, with a personal best of 2:23:32, is the fastest of women’s elite field of the 2016 Vienna City Marathon on 10 April.
Kenya’s Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor won the men’s race at the IAAF/Cardiff University World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday March 26.
Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir took the gold medal in the women’s race at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships – Cardiff 2016 in Cardiff, Wales on Saturday March 26, 2016.
The 2nd edition of the Carthage International Marathon Race has come and gone but the glitz and glamour which heralded the unique race is still making headlines across athletics circles; especially in Tunisia.
Confederation of Africa Athletics (CAA) President, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum and South African doctor Harold Adams announced as one of the chairs of the newly formed IAAF commissions and advisory groups.
Genzebe Dibaba and Yomif Kejelcha delivered two much needed gold medals to Ethiopia on the final day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon on Sunday.
Francine Niyonsaba won the women’s 800m gold in a world-leading national indoor record of 2:00.01 for Burundi on final day at Portland 2016 – IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Two silver medals by Burundi’s Antoine Gakeme and Ethiopia’s Dawit Seyaum, and a bronze medal by Gudaf Tsegay highlight African performances on day 3 of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 on Saturday.
Kenya’s Solomon Kirwa Yego clocked a world-leading time of 58:44, and Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa ran 1:07:08 to win at the 42nd Roma-Ostia Half Marathon on Sunday.
Kenyan athletes won every available title at the 4th edition of the African Cross Country Championship in Yaoundé, Cameroon on Saturday 12 March, 2016.
South African World 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk claimed a historic sprinting landmark after clocking 9.98 PB at the Free State Championships in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
Algeria’s Larbi Bourrada has accepted the official invitation from the IAAF to compete in the combined events at the IAAF World Indoor Championships – Portland 2016.
Sprinter Sean Safo-Antwi has been cleared to switch his allegiance from Britain to ?Ghana? with immediate effect, British Athletics has announced.
Organisers of the annual Okpekpe 10km Road Race in Nigeria have announced a new prize money outlay for the fourth edition of the race scheduled for Saturday 7 May, 2016.
South Africa sprint champion Akani Simbine broke the SA 100 metres record by 100th of a second at the 1st ASA’s Night Series meeting at the Pitditch Stadium in Pretoria on Tuesday night.
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) launches #TeamSARise campaign ahead of Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil this summer.
Kenyan reigning Olympic champion, David Rudisha, began the 2016 Olympic year with a win in the men’s 800m at the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Melbourne on Saturday.
Rabat, Morocco replaces New York as host for 2016 as the prestigious IAAF Diamond League global series of one-day athletics meetings expands into Africa.
Kenya’s Levy Matebo Omari will take his bow at the 2016 Vienna City Marathon on 10 April and will be the fastest man in the field at the IAAF Gold Label Road Race.
Kenyans Eliud Kipchoge and Mary Keitany, the world’s best Male and Female marathoners for 2015, earned $1 Million total prize purse for winning the Abbott World Marathon Major Series IX.
More than 600 runners from across the world will be taking part in the second edition of The Carthage Race International Marathon in Tunisia on 28 February, 2016.
Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia broke the world indoor mile record (4:13.31) while Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti set a new mark over 1000m (2:14.20) in Stockholm on Wednesday February 17, 2016.
East Africans dominate the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon with Kenyan Abraham Kiptum and Ethiopian Halima Hussen taking top honours in Lagos.
Kenyan former World marathon record-holder Wilson Kipsang will clash with his African compatriots at the 2016 Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Half Marathon in the United Arab Emirates on February 12.
Top African marathon stars have begin to arrive in Lagos, Nigeria for Saturday’s maiden Access Bank Lagos City Marathon 2016.
Doreen Amata improved her Nigerian indoor record to 1.93m at the 22nd Banskobystricka latka High Jump Meeting in the Slovak city of Banska Bystrica on Thursday, but misses out on the African indoor record.
Nigeria’s Stephen Mozia set a new lifetime best, world lead and Nigerian indoor Shot Put record of 21.11m at the Vanderbilt Invitational in Nashville, Tennessee, USA on Saturday.
Ghanaian javelin record holder John Ampomah and national sprint queen Janet Amponsah have been crowned male and female Liquid Sports Ghana / Ethiopian Airlines Athletes of the Year 2015 respectively.
Popular Nigeria dance-hall artiste Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie a.k.a Patoranking is the latest celebrity to sign on for the 2016 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon.
National record-holders Anaso Jobodwana and Henricho Bruintjies will feature on South Africa’s team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016.
Ethiopians Tesfaye Dibaba Abera and Tirfi Beyene Tsegaye were crowned winners at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon in the United Arab Emirates on Friday.
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