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Latest stories from Kenya – news and information from the Athletics Kenya running and cross-country competitions in Kasarani and Nairobi.
Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and Gladys Cherono led Kenyan men’s and women’s race victories at the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen on Saturday.
Continue readingSally Kipyego sets a new course record (1:08:31) and Geoffrey Mutai clocked 1:00:50 ahead of Mo Farah (1:01:08) to win the women’s and men’s races respectively at the 2014 New York City Half Marathon.
Continue readingKenyan athletes swept the podium and clean team honours at the 3rd Africa Cross Country Championships at the Kololo Golf Course in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday.
Continue readingKenya will bid for the 2017 IAAF World Youth Championships in Nairobi, Athletics Kenya (AK) President Isaiah Kiplagat announced on Monday.
Continue readingKenyan Javelin star, Julius Yego, is looking forward to a tough 2014 as he continues to make inroads in a discipline hardly considered to be his country’s forte in athletics. , 25, has speared his way to the top of…
Continue readingWorld marathon record holder Wilson Kipsang is eyeing to set a new course record when he lines up for the 2014 London Marathon race on April 13. However, is alive to the calibre of challenge that he will face as…
Continue readingKenyan runners have an imposing record of success in the major city marathons in recent years but Dubai is an exception to the rule. Ethiopians rule the roost when it comes to the men’s competition on this superfast course. Kenya…
Continue readingKenya’s and compatriot will storm the 2013 Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on December 15 looking for a fast race. The Kenyan pair won the men’s and women’s races at the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon in February, with world leading…
Continue readingBenjamin Kipkoech Limo will join an impressive line-up of speakers at the IAAF Global Seminar on Cross Country Running in the Serbian capital Belgrade on December 9, 2013. The 39-year-old Kenyan will take part in the seminar to discuss the major issues…
Continue readingKenyans Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo won the men’s and women’s titles at the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on its return after a 1-year forced hiatus due to last year’s Boston Marathon bombing on Sunday. It’s the third…
Continue readingKenyans and triumphed in the 32nd BMW Frankfurt Marathon, where stormy and wet weather ruined hopes for record performances. Kipruto braved high winds to clock 2:06:15, beating fellow-Kenyan and debutant Mark Kiptoo by just one second. Elijah Kemboi finished third with 2:07:34. The…
Continue readingKenyan police pledged today to boost security for the 11th Standard Chartered Nairobi marathon on Sunday, being staged just over a month since Al-Qaeda linked gunmen killed at least 67 people in a shopping mall. is still reeling from the…
Continue readingAfter 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 Sunday morning, clocking 2.03.23, thus taking 15 seconds off compatriot…
Continue readingKenya’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, timed eight minutes 06:01 seconds to take gold while compatriot…
Continue readingKenyan led an African sweep of the women’s 3000m Steeplechase final and Ethiopian won the men’s 800m title at the 14th . After two World bronze medals, Cheywa justified her favourite tag – in the absence of defending world and…
Continue readingKenya’s won the women’s marathon Gold medal on Saturday at the 14th s in Athletics being held in , Russia. The 33-year-old, who led home a clean Kenyan podium sweep in the event in Daegu 2011, made history as the…
Continue readingTwo 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 27th. Gilbert Kirwa won Germany’s oldest city marathon in 2009….
Continue readingKenyan 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, bruised the bone in his right knee at the Adidas…
Continue readingLittle-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 of the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine….
Continue readingEthiopian 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 Stade de France in Paris on Saturday. Dibaba, the Olympic…
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