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The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) on Thursday signed a protocol agreement (d’un protocole d’accord) with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) on the establishment of a high performance training centre (HPC) at the University of Port-Harcourt.
Commonwealth Games double sprint champion, Blessing Okagbare, will lead the Nigerian team comprising of 30 athletes to the 2014 African championships in Marrakech, Morroco.
Director-General of the National Sports Commission, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye expressed satisfaction with the performance of the Nigeria Athletics team in Glasgow and said the development bodes well for the country’s chances at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
South Africa’s new crop of talented athletes delivered on the promise they possess as they contributed three of the four medals in the track and field at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.
Kenyans Joyce Chepkirui, Florence Kiplagat and Emily Chebet blew the field away for a clean sweep of the women’s 10,000m medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Tuesday.
Blessing Okagbare smashes the Commonwealth Games 100m record to give Nigeria her first Athletics gold medal of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday.
Athletics South Africa’s selection committee has been asked to reassess the final team for the African Championships, less than two weeks before the continental event in Marrakesh.
Kenyan Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku won the men’s 5,000m gold and compatriot Flomena Cheyech Daniel took the women’s marathon gold on day 1 of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Alemitu Haroye led an Ethiopian one-two and outsprinted her team-mate Alemitu Hawi in the final stretch to win the women’s 5000m at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Oregon.
Kenyan Margaret Nyairera wins the women’s 800m in a personal best time of 2:00.49 at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene – Oregon 2014.
Ethiopia’s world youth 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha led for most of the last kilometre to win the men’s 5000m in 13:25.19 at the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Alfred Kipketer restored Kenya’s dominance in the 800m with an impressive 1:43.95, the second-fastest time in the history of the IAAF World Junior Championships.
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 – IAAF Diamond League in Monaco on Friday.
David Rudisha lived up to his promise at the Sainsbury’s Glasgow Grand Prix on Saturday with a commanding 800m performance to equal the time his Kenyan compatriot Asbel Kiprop ran in Paris last week.
Botswana’s Isaac Makwala smashed the African men’s 400m record at the 35th Résisprint international athletics meeting in the Stade de la Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on Sunday.
South-African 400m Hurdler, Cornel Fredericks, continued his steady rise in the global rankings with another solid performance at the 2014 Meeting Areva – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris.
Egypt’s Abdelrahman El Sayed bounced back to win the men’s Javelin; Blessing Okagbare, Asbel Kiprop, Hiwott Ayalew, Edwin Cheruiyot Soi shine at the Meeting Areva 2014 – IAAF Diamond League in Paris.
Africa’s fastest woman, ??Blessing Okagbare,?? will lead the Nigerian athletics team to the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month and the Africa Athletics Championships, in Marrakech.
New Nigerian athletics champions, Mark Jelks, Tosin Oke and Nicole Denby, have all set medal targets for themselves at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland next month.
Isaac ‘Izak’ Makwala lowered the Botswana national record for the men’s 400m to 44.83 seconds at the 53rd Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava on June 17.
Winnie Nanyondo of Uganda scores a surprise victory to win the women’s 800m in her first international competition in 1:59.27, misses national record by 0.19 seconds, at the 53rd Golden Spike athletics meeting in Ostrava.
South Africa sprint prodigy Wayde van Niekerk breaks the 15-year-old South African men’s 400m record at the 2014 adidas Grand Prix, IAAF Diamond League in New York on Saturday June 14, 2014.
Nigerian athletes Nicole Denby and Amaechi Cristian Cuevas Morton were among the winners at the 4th Warri Relays/Golden League meet held at the Warri Township Stadium, Warri, Delta State on Friday.
South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) on Sunday congratulated Aleck Skhosana on his appointment as the new president of Athletics South Africa (ASA).
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba, put her patchy outdoor season form behind her with a strong performance to win the women’s 5000 metres at the IAAF Diamond League – Golden Gala meeting in Rome on Thursday.
South Africa’s Bongmusa Mthembu claimed his maiden Comrades Marathon title after clinching the 2014 ‘down run’ title by a comfortable margin, while Eleanor Greenwood won a dramatic women’s race in Durban on Sunday.
Johan Cronje lowers the 27-year-old South African record in the men’s mile to 3:50.70 on Saturday night at the 40th Prefontaine Classics – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon.
World indoor champion Ayanleh Souleiman sets a new Djibouti mile record with a world leading time of 3:47.32 at the 40th Prefontaine Classic – IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday.
Kenya’s quartet of Collins Cheboi, Silas Kiplagat, James Magut and Asbel Kiprop sets a new World record of 14:22.22 in the Men’s 4x1500m at IAAF World Relays in Nassau.
Kenya wins the first gold medal at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in Nassau with an emphatic victory in the men’s 4x800m final, crossing the line in 7:08.40 and taking the US$50,000 first place prize money.
Kenyan women’s 4x1500m quartet of Mercy Cherono, Faith Kipyegon, Irene Jelagat and Hellen Obiri smashed the 4x1500m World Record at the IAAF World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas on Saturday.
South Africa’s Andre Olivier wins the men’s 800m in 1:44.88; Morocco’s Rababe Arafi takes 1500m win in PB 4:02.71; Kenyans Paul Kipsiele Koech and Purity Kirui dominate the Steeplechase at Beijing’s IAAF World Challenge meeting.
Four specialists will evaluate murder-accused Oscar Pistorius to determine his state of mind and criminal responsibility after being admitted as an outpatient at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital.
Egypt’s Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed blew the Javelin competition apart in the opening round with a huge African record at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, China on Sunday.
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare sets two meet records on her way to victory in the women’s Long Jump and 200m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, China on Sunday.
Ethiopians Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba won the men’s and women’s races at the Bupa Great Manchester Run in the North West of England on Sunday May 18, 2014.
The first edition of the International Half Marathon D’El Jadida (SMIJ) will take place in the Moroccan port city of El Jadida, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco on Sunday, June 8, 2014.
Pretoria High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday granted the State’s application for murder-accused Oscar Pistorius to be sent for mental observation.
Prosecutors in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Tuesday brought an application before the High Court in Pretoria to have murder-accused admitted for mental observation.
Kenyan Patrick Terer kept his promise on his return to the Volkswagen Prague Marathon, clocking a personal best time of 2:08:07 to win the men’s race in the Czech capital on Sunday.
Hellen Onsando Obiri sets a new African and Kenyan record in the women’s 3000m at the 2014 IAAF Diamond League in Doha on Friday, leading a Kenyan sweep home in 8:20.68.
African 800m stars Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia and Nijel Amos of Botswana talk tactics, friendship and David Rudisha on the eve of 2014 IAAF Diamond league kick-off in Doha.
Chelsea FC fan Genzebe Dibaba has an unfinished business in Doha. After two disappointments, Dibaba is favourite to win the IAAF Diamond Race 3000m on Friday.
Kenyan athletes – Asbel Kiprop, Eunice Sum, Ezekiel Kemboi and Mercy Cherono – look forward to a good season opening race at the IAAF Diamond League Doha 2014 meeting on Friday May 9.
Defending champion Nicholas Kemboi and course record-holder Eliud Kiptanui are among a contingent of strong rivals for Moses Mosop when he runs the Volkswagen Prague Marathon on May 11
World 800m champion Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia is the latest star to join the field of the IAAF Diamond League Doha 2014 after world record-holder and Olympic champion David Rudisha of Kenya pulls out.
Kenyans Abraham Cheroben and Janet Rono clocked world leading times to win the 34th edition of the BIG 25 Berlin inside the Berlin Olympic Stadium on Sunday.
London Marathon champions, Wilson Kipsang and Edna Kiplagat, will headline the field at the 2014 Mattoni Olomouc Half Marathon in the city of Olomouc, Czech Republic on June 21.
Athletics Kenya (AK) selects a team of 30 athletes for the second edition of the Africa Youth Games (AYG) to be held in Gaborone, Botswana from May 22-31, 2014.
Tirunesh Dibaba, the reigning world and Olympic champion at 10,000m, returns to the North West of England to defend her title in the Bupa Great Manchester Run on Sunday May 18.
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