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Ethiopian favourite Yemane Tsegay Adhane won a thrilling battle at the conclusion of the 2013 De Lage Landen Marathon Eindhoven, crossing the line in 2:09:11 and ending a 14-year Kenyan…
Two years ago Berlin and Frankfurt produced two fascinating marathon races within an interval of just over a month. First ran a world record at the BMW Berlin Marathon, when…
After spending two years being known as the man who came agonisingly close to matching the marathon world record, Wilson Kipsang of Kenya broke that record handsomely in Berlin on…
Defending champion Meselech Melkamu will return to the scene of her triumph last year when she runs the 32nd edition of the BMW Frankfurt Marathon, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race,…
Five of Namibia’s top athletes left for Jamaica last week as part of a long term training programme with the aim of improving Namibia’s chances of winning medals at the…
Ethiopia’s distance running star Kenenisa Bekele bossed the field to win the men’s race at the 2013 Bupa Great North Run in a sprint finish ahead of Somali-born Briton Mohammed…
Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, hosted Blessing Okagbare, Nigeria’s double silver medallist at the 2013 IAAF World Championships held in Moscow, Russia at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore , has declared that the recent successes for Nigeria in continental athletics championships are no fluke but dividends…
Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan and South Africa’s Sabelo Ntokozo Ndlovu both set Championships records on day two of the 11th African Junior Athletics Championships at the Stade Germain Comarmond in Bambous, Mauritius. Ahmed…
Meseret Defar’s outstanding 5000m win over her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba was the highlights of the first of this season’s IAAF Diamond League finals on Thursday, writes Phil Minshull for the IAAF…
The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Solomon Ogba, has explained the rationale behind dropping nine out of the 35 athletes originally selected to represent the nation at the …
Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax, Tunisia have been granted the associate membership of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) effective in 2013. The membership approval…
Uganda’s World marathon champion, Stephen Kiprotich, said the IAAF World Championships gold is his best medal as compared to the one he won in the London 2012 Olympics Games. While…
Kenya’s Ezekiel Kemboi won his third 3,000 metres steeplechase world title in convincing style at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Thursday August 15th. The 31-year-old, two-time Olympic champion,…
The 2010 African Champion, Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed from Egypt, today set a national record of 83.62 metres in the men’s Javelin Throw qualification at the IAAF World Championships in…
Kenyan Milcah Chemos Cheywa led an African sweep of the women’s 3000m Steeplechase final and Ethiopian Mohammed Aman won the men’s 800m title at the 14th . After two World…
Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure ran a storming race to win the Silver medal in the women’s 100m final at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in , Russia. The 26-year-old…
Blessing Okagbare spoke with the IAAF tv after winning the silver medal in women’s Long Jump at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia
Ethiopian reigning Olympic Champion, Tirunesh Dibaba, won her third World 10,000m title at the on Sunday. Displaying her trademark kick, the 27-year-old sped away from the field at the bell…
Video Interview with Ivorian sprinter Murielle Ahoure after the 100m Heats today at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia.
Video Interview with Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti after the 800m Men Prelims at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia on Saturday.
Video Interview with Nigeria’s sprinter champion and African record-holder, Blessing Okagbare, after the women’s Long Jump qualification at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday. She jumped…
Video Interview with Nigeria’s 400m runner Omolara Omotosho at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
Video Interview with Nigeria’s 800m runner Leoman Momoh at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
Kenya’s Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat won the women’s marathon Gold medal on Saturday at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics being held in Moscow, Russia. The 33-year-old, who led home…
South Africa’s hope of a good showing in the men’s marathon event at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow next week was dealt a further blow on Tuesday when Lusapho…
Ethiopia’s Jillo Dube will speak on the Ethiopian method of training for middle and long distances at the 2nd IAAF World Coaches’ Conference scheduled for Moscow on Monday August 19,…
has selected a team of 27 athletes to participate at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia from 10-18 August 2013. The team of 21 track & field…
Morocco will send a team of 21 athletes, 14 men and seven women to take part in the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics to be held from August 10…
Ethiopian distance superstars, Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele will face Briton, Somali-born, Mohammed ‘Mo’ Farah in South Shields at the 2013 Bupa Great North Run on Sunday, September 15. The two…
The dwindling fortunes being witnessed in Nigeria’s athletic scene could soon be a thing of the past with the newly activated Nestle/IAAF Kids Athletics programme, stakeholders have posited. At the…
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare twice lowered the African women’s 100m record to beat a star-studded line-up at the Sainsbury Anniversary Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting in London today. Okagbare first erased…
Two former champions will return to the BMW Frankfurt Marathon while the silver medallist of the World Championships’ Marathon from Daegu 2011 has also been confirmed for the race on October…
World Champion Amantle Montsho of Botswana and Côte d’Ivoire’s Murielle Ahoure stormed to national records while Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare soared over seven metres twice at the Herculis Meeting – Diamond…
Algeria’s Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi on Thursday withdrew from next month’s IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow because of a viral infection, El Watan newspaper reported on its website.…
Caster Semenya won her first race after a lengthy injury layoff on Wednesday night, but fell well short in her attempt to qualify for next month’s IAAF World Championships. The…
Kenyan reigning World and Olympic champion David Rudisha has pulled out of the 800 metres at 2013 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia with a knee injury. Rudisha, 24,…
Nestle Nigeria will launch the Nestlé/IAAF Kid’s Athletics Programme, in partnership with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), in Lagos on July 25. The programme, aimed at promoting the development…
Ethiopia’s Meresa Kahsay sets a World Youth best of 5:19.99 to win the boy’s 2000m Steeplechase Gold medal at the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine. Kaysay was seventh…
Little-known Kenyan girl, Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, announced herself on the big stage on Wednesday, winning the girls 3000m with a World Youth leading time of 8:58.74 on the first day…
South African sprinter Anaso Jobodwana, who won the men’s 100m title on Monday, completed the double with a dominant performance to win the 200m title at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
The last batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to this year’s IAAF World Youth Championship arrived Donetsk, Ukraine late Tuesday after spending about eleven hours in Istanbul, the Turkish capital. The…
South African athletes put the troubles at home behind them to win two gold medals on day two of athletics at the 27th Summer Universiade / World University Games in…
Ethiopian star Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenyan Ezekiel Kemboi raced to new meeting records with comfortable performances for Africans in front of 50,266 spectators at the Meeting Areva/Diamond League inside the…
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released a provisional list of 19 athletes to represent Nigeria at the 2013 IAAF World Athletics championship in Moscow, Russia from August 10-18. As expected,…
Mauritius has been picked to replace South Africa as the host of the postponed 11th Africa Junior Athletics Championships. The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) confirmed in a statement on…
Athletics South Africa (ASA) insisted on Monday that the country’s athletes will head to the IAAF World championships in Moscow as planned, despite the suspension of the federation by the…
Blessing Okagbare eased to victory in the women’s 200m in 22.65 seconds to complete a sprint double on the final day of competition at the 67th CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships…
Ogho-Oghene Egwero won Thursday’s top race with victory in the men’s 100m in 10.18 secs on day-two of the CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar, Cross-Rivers State. The day produced…
Blessing Okagbare won her fifth successive Nigerian women’s 100m title in 11.25 seconds on Wednesday at the ongoing All-Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar. Okagbare who held the pre-championship best in…
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