Records fall on Day 1 of ASA age group Championships in Tshwane
Multiple national bests were shattered in the U16 age group, as the ASA U16, U18, U20 and U23 Championships opened at Pilditch Stadium in Tshwane.
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Multiple national bests were shattered in the U16 age group, as the ASA U16, U18, U20 and U23 Championships opened at Pilditch Stadium in Tshwane.
Nigerian quartet of Emmanuel Ojeli, Patience Okon-George, Sikiru Adeyemi and Omolara Ogunmakinju storm to an African record of 3:13.26 in Accra.
Emmanuel Alobwede Eseme (Cameroon) and Gina Bass-Bittaye (Gambia) win the African Games Accra 2023 100m dash titles.
Weldu and Tesfu, who are by some distance the fastest Eritrean women marathon runners in history, may be challenged by Kenyans Shyline Toroitich and Rebecca Tanui
All eyes will be on junior star Viwe Jingqi in the women’s 200m after recovering from injury niggles that hampered her 2023 season.
Degitu Azimeraw and Tadesse Abraham emerged victorious at the Zurich Marató Barcelona – a World Athletics Gold Label road race.
World Champion Hugues Fabrice Zango soars to a triple jump win and a last-gasp 400m defeat for Karsten Warholm at the hands of Belgium’s Alexander Doom ends Day 2 in Glasgow.
David Rudisha is familiar with the city of Glasgow as he competed, and earned a silver medal, there at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum and coach, Gervais Hakizimana, tragically killed in Kenyan road accident on Sunday.
Agnes Ngetich from Kenya broke the women’s world record for the 10km distance, achieving a time of 28:46 at the 10K Valencia Ibercaja event held on Sunday.
Tigist Ketema breaks debut world record while a former javelin
thrower Addisu Gobena takes the men’s title at the 2024 Dubai Marathon.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet breaks the women’s world 5km record with 14:13 at the Cursa dels Nassos road race in Barcelona.
Reigning Dubai Marathon champion Dera Dida of Ethiopia will lead the women’s elite field when she returns for her title defence in Dubai in January.
High Altitude Athletics Club of Jos, announce intention to send 25 elite athletes to the 2023 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon.
Hopes for records were ruined by the weather conditions as Panuel Mkungo clocked 2:10:35 while Beatrice Cheptoo crossed the line on Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square after 2:27:09.
An initiative of the women’s 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan and quarter-miler Abiola Onakoya, the 2023 Tobi/Abiola Sprint and Relays Meet will hold in Ijebu-Ode from 3-4 November.
Kelvin Kiptum clocked a stunning 2:00:35 to take 34 seconds off the world record at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday.
Two young stars stole the show at the World Athletics Road Running Championships Riga 23, setting new world records in the electrifying mile races.
Bernard Muia and Catherine Cherotich take eventful races in Munich as the 2023 GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON produced a Kenyan double triumph on Sunday.
Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich smashed the women-only world 10km record at the Trunsylvania 10km, clocking 29:24 at the World Athletics Elite Label road race held on Sunday as part of the Brasov Running Festival in Romania
Ethiopia’s Guye Adola and defending champion Brimin Misoi of Kenya add their quality to the elite field for 40th Edition of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on October 29.
Ethiopian Letesenbet Gidey ran 14:08.79 at Berlin’s ISTAF Meeting, but missed reclaiming the 5,000m world record by four secs.
The Kenyan runner ran 4:07.64 to break her third world record of the summer at Stade Louis II in Monaco on Friday
The renowned Kenyan athlete, aged 38, will be competing in the prestigious road race for the sixth time.
Athletics South Africa is thrilled to learn of the European Court of Human Rights declaration that the imposition of the DSD regulations on Caster Semenya was discriminatory and a violation of her human rights.
Taylon Bieldt scorched to a convincing victory in 12.76 secs to break the South African record in the women’s 100m hurdles at a meeting in Campo Scuola, Italy.
Thabang Mosiako and Glenrose Xaba claim the national men’s and women’s titles at the 2023 ASA Half-Marathon Championships in Gqeberha.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon secured the world record she had been targeting, winning the women’s 1500m in an impressive 3:49.11 at the Golden Gala in Florence.
Purity Komen causes an upset against Ruth Chepngetich, while Daniel Ebenyo emerges victorious at the 2023 Istanbul Half Marathon.
South African newly minted record setter Leandri Geel turns her focus on to ASA Grand Prix 3 at the NWU MacArthur Athletics Stadium in Potchefstroom on Wednesday 26 April 2023.
Bernard Koech from Kenya won the Haspa Marathon Hamburg, setting a course record of 2:04:09 and is currently the fourth fastest runner globally this year.
Kenya’s Samwel Mailu broke the nine-year-old course record at the Vienna City Marathon, finishing in 2:05:08, with Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen holding the finishing tape.
Precious Mashele smashes the South African 10km record, taking second place against a strong field at the Absa Run Your City race in Gqeberha.
Wayde van Niekerk and Leandri Geel impress as the three-day ASA Senior Track & Field Championships closed with a bang in Potchefstroom on Saturday.
Akani Simbine and Carina Horn win their fifth national titles in the men’s and women’s 100m finals on Day 1 of the ASA Senior Track and Field Championships in Potchefstroom.
Kenyans Ruth Chepngetich and Rodgers Kwemoi, both course record holders, will return for the N Kolay Istanbul Half Marathon on April 30.
Karriem Abduraghmaan and Kayla Murray charge to victory in the junior men’s and women’s 100m finals on Day 1 of ASA U16, U18 and U20 Track and Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg.
Senbere Teferi, who holds the 5k world record, is part of a formidable group of African runners in the 2023 Vienna City Marathon’s competitive women’s elite division.
Cybrian Kotut, the defending champion and course record holder, will return to the Haspa Marathon Hamburg on 23rd April.
Ethiopia’s star runner Lamecha Girma, known for his impressive collection of silver medals, added a shiny new world record to his trophy cabinet at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, smashing the world indoor 3000m record in a jaw-dropping 7:23.81!
Tsegaye Mekonnen Asefa, former winner and unofficial junior world record holder, will participate in the 2023 Dubai Marathon on February 12th.
As an ambassador for the World Athletics Cross Country Championships Bathurst 23, Tergat will play a crucial role in promoting and supporting the prestigious event.
The fourth meeting of the IOC Coordination Commission Dakar 2026 , held virtually on 13 October, focused on the latest activities of the Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (YOGOC).
Both course records were smashed during the comeback of international elite runners at the GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON.
Mbuleli Mathanga and Glenrose Xaba delivered in style to win the national senior titles at the ASA Cross Country Championships in Rustenburg on Saturday.
Glenrose Xaba and Andries Sesedi secure the South African women’s and men’s titles, respectively at the 2022 ASA 10km Championships at Pilditch Stadium, Tshwane.
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 Cali, Colombia.
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 maintain Uganda’s domination of the event in the absence of world champion Joshua Cheptegei.
The reigning African champion Chioma Onyekwere becomes the first Nigerian woman to win Commonwealth Games gold in the Discus Throw event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Tuesday.
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 Cali22 on Monday.
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