Sawe triumphs in one of quickest ever London Marathon
Sabastian Sawe dominates elite men’s TCS London Marathon field to keep the crown in Kenyan hands with commanding running reminiscent of Eliud Kipchoge’s prime.
Latest stories from Kenya – news and information from the Athletics Kenya running and cross-country competitions in Kasarani and Nairobi.
Sabastian Sawe dominates elite men’s TCS London Marathon field to keep the crown in Kenyan hands with commanding running reminiscent of Eliud Kipchoge’s prime.
Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich became the first athlete to break the 30-minute barrier in a women-only 10-kilometre road race, clocking 29:27 at the Adizero Road To Records event on Saturday.
Brigid Kosgei and Amos Kipruto head Hamburg’s strongest ever field, Karoline Grovdal chases famous national record at the 39th Haspa Marathon Hamburg on Sunday.
Kenya’s John Korir runs the second-fastest winning time in race history (2:04:45), whilst Sharon Lokedi shatters the course record in 2:17:22 to win the 129 Boston Marathon on Monday 21 April, 2025.
Kenyan Brigid Kosgei, who broke Paula Radcliffe’s world record with 2:14:04 in Chicago 2019, has joined the elite field of the Haspa Marathon Hamburg 2025.
Two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has been a great ambassador of Kenyan athletics, flying the country’s flag high around the world over the years.
Double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet leads the Athletics nominations at the 2025 Kenyan Sports Awards Gala.
Athletics Kenya aims to test over 444 athletes in preparation for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 in September.
Vibian Chepkirui aims for history but Rebecca Tanui will challenge her in a battle of Kenyan ladies at the 42nd edition of the Vienna City Marathon on Sunday.
Kenyans Justus Kangogo, Asbel Rutto and Stanley Kurgat will be attacking their personal bests at the 2025 Vienna City Marathon.
Kenyans Justus Kangogo and Vibian Chepkirui, who holds the course record in Vienna, head the start list with personal bests of 2:05:57 and 2:20:59 respectively.
Defending champion Sheila Chelangat will return to defend her title at the 20th edition of the Türkiye Is Bankasi Istanbul Half Marathon on 27th April.
Double Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge is set for a new chapter in his incomparable marathon journey as he heads to compete at the TCS Sydney Marathon on Sunday 31 August 2025.
Kenyan trio of Justus Kangogo, Douglas Chebii and Stanley Kurgat head the men’s elite field at the 2025 Vienna City Marathon on 6th April.
Kenyans Harrison Muchira Wanjiru and Lydia Naliaka Wamalwa emerged victorious at the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Half-marathon in the Nigerian capital city on Saturday 1 March.
The Vienna City Marathon on 6th April will see Vibian Chepkirui vying for her third straight win. The 30-year-old Kenyan has shown exceptional prowess in the Austrian capital, with victories in 2021 and 2022.
World 10,000m and half marathon silver medallist Daniel Ebenyo and Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech secured senior titles at the 2025 Kenyan Cross-Country Championships on Saturday.
Auburn University’s track and field freshman Brenda Jepchirchir (Kenya) has been designated as the Southeastern Conference’s women’s Freshman of the Week, with Mississippi State’s Adekalu Fakorede (Nigeria) taking the men’s crown.
Renowned runner Eliud Kipchoge, widely regarded as the greatest marathon runner in history, is returning to the TCS London Marathon in 2025.
Beatrice Chebet, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, ended her year triumphantly by setting a new 5km road race world record at the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona on new year’s eve.
Ethiopia’s Chala Ketama Regasa won the men’s race in 2:06:16, while Kenya’s Catherine Reline Amanang’ole triumphed in the women’s race with 2:20:34 at the 2024 ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon.
Kenyan government set up Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and enhance safeguarding in sports committee with athletics legend Catherine Ndereba among the members.
Somalia-born Abdi Nageeye becomes first athlete from the Netherlands to win the TCS New York City Marathon while Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui captures her first-ever Abbott World Marathon Majors title on Sunday.
Magdalyne Masai, her sister Linet Masai, and Jake Robertson, Magdalyne’s husband who has a marathon PB of 2:08:26, will give it their all over 42.195 km.
Kenyan’s Ruth Chepngetich and John Korir dominate the fields to emerge victorious at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday.
Cosmas Birech and Shamilah Kipsiror are heading the start list at the 38th edition of the GENERALI MUNICH MARATHON on Sunday October 13th.
Kenya’s Daniel Kinyanjui and Loice Chemnung are victorious in the Brasov Running Festival 2024’s tRUNsylvania 10K on Sunday.
Faith Kipyegon claimed her fifth Diamond League title, and with her compatriot Beatrice Chebet, broke the meeting records in their events on the second day of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels on Saturday.
Kenya’s Amos Serem shocked Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali to win his first men’s 3000m Steeplechase Diamond League title at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme – Wanda Diamond League Final in Brussels.
Three Kenyan runners with personal bests slightly over 2:08:00 will be on the start line besides the Olympic Stadium.
Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet set a world-leading 14:09.52 meeting record at the 2024 Weltklasse Zurich, the penultimate Wanda Diamond League event of the season.
Paris 2024 Olympic medallist Ronald Kwemoi and defending champion Weldon Langat on the start line for 2024 tRUNsylvania 10K on Sept 22.
World champion Mary Moraa clocks world 600m best at the 2024 ISTAF – a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting – in Berlin.
Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke Kenya’s Daniel Komen’s 28-year-old men’s 3000m world record of 7:20.67 in Silesia, Poland on Sunday.
Kenya’s Julius Yego, the 2015 world Javelin champion and 2016 Olympics silver medalist, reached the javelin final at the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris with an 85.97 metres throw on his third attempt.
World records set in the first half of 2024 by Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet, Agnes Jebet Ngetich, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Mondo Duplantis, Mykolas Alekna have now been ratified by World Athletics.
Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot and Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen to contest the men’s 1500m at the 49th Athletissima: The 2024 edition of the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 22 August.
Kenya will be represented by a strong team of 45 athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games from 1-11 August.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon shatters her own women’s 1500m world record of 3:49.11, racing to an incredible 3:49.04 finish at the 2024 Paris Diamond League.
Kenya’s pre-race favourite Daniel Ebenyo and Ethiopia’s youngster Tekle Muluat emerge victorious at the 43rd edition of the GENERALI BERLIN HALF MARATHON.
Kenya’s silver medallist from 2023 World Half Marathon Championships, Daniel Ebenyo, is regarded as the favourite at the 2024 Generali Berlin Half Marathon.
Kenya’s world 3000m steeplechase record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech demonstrated her dominance in her specialty event to win the gold at the African Games Accra 2023.
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.
Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet breaks the women’s world 5km record with 14:13 at the Cursa dels Nassos road race in Barcelona.
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.
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.
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
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