Samuel Tefera retains world indoor 1500m title in Belgrade 22
The 22-year-old Ethiopian edged out Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to retain the world indoor 1500m title at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
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The 22-year-old Ethiopian edged out Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to retain the world indoor 1500m title at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
The 25-year-old eclipsed the championship record of 3:59.75, held by compatriot Gelete Burka, to lead an Ethiopian clean sweep of the women’s 1500m, crossing the line in 3:57.19.
Ethiopians Lemlem Hailu and Ejigayehu Taye claim women’s 3000m podium finish at the World Athletics Indoor Championships, Belgrade 2022.
Namibian sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi dominated the 100m sprint at the 2022 ASA Athletics Grand Prix Series 1 meeting in the Free State, South Africa.
Ethiopians Tsegaye Mekonnen and Guye Adola are among the top runners for the 2022 Haspa Marathon Hamburg on April 24.
Lesotho’s Neheng Khatala and South African Desmond Mokgobu were crowned the winners of the Race to Equality half marathon race in Johannesburg on Saturday.
South Africa’s Stephen Mokoka stepped up to 50km in style, running 2:40:13 to break the men’s world record, at the Nedbank #Runified 50km in Gqeberha.
New four-year SuperSport and Athletics South Africa partnership will deliver best of South African athletics on TV and streamed on the popular SuperSport Schools app.
World record holder Yalemzerf Yehualaw from Ethiopia will run her debut marathon race at the 2022 Haspa Marathon Hamburg on April 24th.
Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw sets a world 10km record in Castellón de la Plana, Spain, clocking 29:14 to slice 24 seconds from Kalkidan Gezahegne’s previous world record.
The 21km race will be flagged off at the Saderiren’s Palace while the finishing point will be at the Isonyin Grammar School field.
The first edition of the Amusan/Onakoya Athletics Meeting will hold on Thursday, February 24, 2022, at the Ijebu-Ode International Stadium, Ijebu-Ode.
South Africa’s Irvette van Zyl and Ethiopia’s Ketema Negasa inaugural world 50km records, set in 2021 at the Nedbank Runified race in Gqeberha, have been ratified.
Motivated by narrowly missing Olympic podium in Tokyo, Taye and Aregawi end their year on a high, winning at the Cursa dels Nassos 5km event in Barcelona.
Jacob Kiplimo took another step up in class on Sunday when the Ugandan became a world record-holder with his 57:31 victory at the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon.
Ugandan Victor Kiplangat takes debut win while Kenyan Sheila Jerotich comes from behind in stunning sister act at the 2021 N Kolay Istanbul Marathon.
Ethiopian Dawit Seyaum, previously a 1500m specialist, steps up with world 5km record in Lille on Saturday.
The world and Olympic 10,000m medallist also becomes just the second athlete in history to hold world records for 5000m, 10,000m and the half marathon.
First Dakar 2026 initiatives to get underway on the ground in 2022 in the spirit of “teranga”.
Ethiopians Guye Adola scores unexpected triumph in Berlin, debutant Gotytom Gebreslase surprises to win women’s title.
World record holder and seven-time World Marathon Majors winner Mary Keitany from Kenya retires from the sport.
Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba took more than two seconds off Genzebe Dibaba’s world 2000m record with a brilliant run of 5:21.56 at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb.
Kenyan Leonard Langat wins the 2021 Vienna City Marathon with a time of 2:09:25 while debutant Kenyan Vibian Chepkirui ran 2:24:29 to take a surprise victory in the women’s race.
Kenyan Agnes Tirop and Ethiopian Senbere Teferi created history at the adizero Road To Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele makes his fourth appearance in Germany’s biggest and most spectacular marathon, while his compatriot Hiwot Gebrekidan will run in Berlin’s women’s field for the first time.
Yalemzerf Yehualaw becomes the first woman to break 64 minutes for the half marathon, running a remarkable 1:03:43 at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
Kenyan Joyciline Jepkosgei breaks Sifan Hassan’s course record while Felix Kipkoech runs world lead at the 2021 GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON.
Kenyan marathon world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge becomes only the third man to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title on Sunday in Sapporo.
Emmanuel Korir and Peruth Chemutai win first gold medals for Kenya and Uganda respectively on a great night for East Africa at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Ethiopian Selemon Barega takes a thrilling gold in the men’s 10,000 metres final, the first gold medal in the athletics at Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on Friday.
The Women-only world half marathon record of 1:05:16 set by Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir in Gdynia, Poland on 17 October 2020 has been ratified.
Letesenbet Gidey improved Sifan Hassan’s mark by five seconds to win the Ethiopian Trials in 29:01.03 on Tuesday.
African athletes Gudaf Tsegay, Beatrice Chepkoech and Kibiwott Kandie’s respective marks over 1500m, 5km and the half-marathon have been ratified.
World bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay sets the track alight at the Meeting d’Athletisme Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting.
Ethiopian Lemlem Hailu’s world U20 indoor 1500m record of 4:01.57, set at the World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Lievin on 19 February 2020, has been ratified.
With clean sheets after two of the three ISTAF meetings sprinter CIV’s Arthur Gue Cisse and long jumper Malaika Mihambo are in pole positions to win the ISTAF-Trophy.
German sprinters were left trailing in the men’s 60m by Ivorian Arthur Cissé in the first edition of ISTAF INDOOR at Düsseldorf’s ISS Dome.
At the age of 42 Kenyan John Komen came through to upset the favourites and win the Athens Marathon with 2:16:34.
This year’s World Marathon Champions Lelisa Desisa (Ethiopia) and Ruth Chepngetich (Kenya) are the Marathon Runners of the Year 2019.
The Kenyan favourites Daniel Muteti and Rhonzas Kilimo have set their sights on breaking the course record in the “Athens Marathon – The Authentic” on Sunday.
Valary Aiyabei smashed the 2:20 barrier in the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon, achieving the greatest sporting moment in the 38th edition of Germany’s oldest city marathon.
Ethiopia’s Tsehay Gemechu retained her Airtel Delhi Half Marathon title but added lustre to her triumph by smashing the course record she had set 12 months ago in the Indian capital when she ran 66:00 on Sunday.
Eliud Kipchoge broke one of the greatest barriers in sport history in a thrilling performance in Vienna when 34-year-old Kenyan became the first to run the classic marathon distance in under two hours – in 1:59:40.2 at the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in Vienna’s Prater Park on Saturday.
Kenya’s Brigid Chepchirchir Kosgei broke the world record at the 2019 Chicago Marathon, winning the IAAF Gold Label road race in 2:14:04, on Sunday.
Course Record Holder Meskerem Assefa returns to defend the women’s title, while Junior World Record Holder Tsegaye Mekonnen joins the men’s field at the 2019 Mainova Frankfurt Marathon.
For Lelisa Desisa, victory on Doha’s famous Corniche not only ended a 42-kilometre road race, but a six-year journey to redemption following his narrow defeat at the Moscow 2013 World Championships.
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won what is regarded as the toughest race on the planet at the World Cross Country in Denmark in March, and needed to draw on the same resources to win his first world 10,000m title in Doha on Sunday.
Kenya’s Hellen Obiri successfully defended her 5000m title in Doha, setting the pace for much of the race, then pouring on the pressure on the last lap to win comfortably in a championship record of 14:26.72.
Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto came from behind to snatch his second successive world title on the finish line in the men’s 3000m steeplechase at Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships.
Favour Ofili is the reigning youth Olympic champion from Buenos Aries 2018 and topped the bill in the 400m final as well at the African Youth Games in the same year.
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